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A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union believers have with God and Christ, and the glorious privileges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nigh.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Nay our Saviour doth not take of the Spirit, but the Spirit hears from him, speaks from him. Joh. 16.13. Howbeit, when the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak of himself, but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak. He shall take of mine, and show it unto you. Verse, 15. Christ doth not go to take of the graces from the Spirit: but the Spirit, because Christ is sent to be the Head of the Church, to have all Grace, and to be the Fountain ⟨p. 437⟩to communicate all Grace, therefore the Spirit takes of his. Not takes of the Father, because the Father hath given all to him, but takes of his, who hath his commission from the Father, and is sent out his work, of purpose.
Nay our Savior doth not take of the Spirit, but the Spirit hears from him, speaks from him. Joh. 16.13. Howbeit, when the Spirit of truth is come he wil guid you into al truth. For he shal not speak of himself, but whatever he shal hear, that shal he speak. He shal take of mine, and shew it unto you. Verse, 15. Christ doth not go to take of the graces from the Spirit: but the Spirit, because Christ is sent to be the Head of the Church, to have al Grace, and to be the Fountain ⟨p. 437⟩to communicate al Grace, therefore the Spirit takes of his. Not takes of the Father, because the Father hath given al to him, but takes of his, who hath his commission from the Father, and is sent out his work, of purpose.
The sending of all Officers is hence. As my Father sent me, I send you: And this is the order and Method of Gods Communication: He that receives you, receives me; and he that receives me, receives him that sent me. Yea the sending of Gospel and all ordinances. Joh. 17.8. For I have given unto them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them, and have known and believed that thou didst send me.
The sending of al Officers is hence. As my Father sent me, I send you: And this is the order and Method of Gods Communication: He that receives you, receives me; and he that receives me, receives him that sent me. Yea the sending of Gospel and al ordinances. Joh. 17.8. For I have given unto them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them, and have known and beleeved that thou didst send me.
Yea the ground of all those glorious works he hath accomplished in his own Person, and will perform for his, and against his enemies for their good, is hence. Joh. 9.4. I must do the works of him that sent me, while it is day. And 5.36. The works which the Father hath given me to do, bear witness, that the Father hath sent me. And when he had fulfilled all, he then returns to his Father.
Yea the ground of al those glorious works he hath accomplished in his own Person, and wil perform for his, and against his enemies for their good, is hence. Joh. 9.4. I must do the works of him that sent me, while it is day. And 5.36. The works which the Father hath given me to do, bear witness, that the Father hath sent me. And when he had fulfilled al, he then returnes to his Father.
5. As sending evidenceth an Authority in him that sends: So to be sent implies, that he that is sent takes this Authoritative Order, stands engaged to answer it, thus given and taken, And is fully to act under the will of him, from whom he must work. And thus it is with the Lord Christ, as second person in the glorious Trinity, being sent by God the Father, to work as from him.
5. As sending evidenceth an Authority in him that sends: So to be sent implies, that he that is sent takes this Authoritative Order, stands ingaged to answer it, thus given and taken, And is fully to act under the will of him, from whom he must work. And thus it is with the Lord Christ, as second person in the glorious Trinity, being sent by God the Father, to work as from him.
For as the manner of their being, so is the manner of their working: the Son from the Father, and therefore works from the Father: he is ready to entertain this Order of working, and engageth himself to answer the Order and will of the Father, and stands fitted to have the Nature of man united to him, that he may go upon the operation of that work of the Father, according to the Order of the Father given him, and all this in a ⟨p. 438⟩peculiar manner appropriate to the Son.
For as the manner of their being, so is the manner of their working: the Son from the Father, and therefore works from the Father: he is ready to entertain this Order of working, and ingageth himself to answer the Order and wil of the Father, and stands fitted to have the Nature of man united to him, that he may go upon the operation of that work of the Father, according to the Order of the Father given him, and al this in a ⟨p. 438⟩peculiar manner appropriate to the Son.
What ever belongs to the Second Person, and none else, that he hath as a Son received from the Father.
What ever belongs to the Second Person, and none els, that he hath as a Son received from the Father.
But to act by Authoritative order form the Father alone: belongs to the Second Person and none else.
But to act by Authoritative order form the Father alone: belongs to the Second Person and none els.
Therefore this as a Son he hath received from the Father.
Therefore as he must act from him alone: so he is bound to answer that Order of his.
Therefore works nothing, but what he sees, his Father work: speaks nothing but what he hears his Father say.
Therefore does nothing, but what the Father will.
Therefore does nothing, but what the Father wil.
Therefore to be fitted, when his will is, to take the Nature of man into Personal union that he may go upon the execution of his will.
Therefore to be fitted, when his wil is, to take the Nature of man into Personal union that he may go upon the execution of his wil.
I say receive it into personal union. Because this belongs to no other Person, not Father, nor Holy Ghost but himself. For its Heresy to say, the Father is incarnate or the Holy Ghost is incarnate. How ever therefore he did not receive the Human Nature, but in time: Yet he was fitted for this work, by this sending and eternal mission of his before all time: this makes way for that work of Redemption,
I say receive it into personal union. Because this belongs to no other Person, not Father, nor Holy Ghost but himself. For its Haeresie to say, the Father is incarnate or the Holy Ghost is incarnate. How ever therefore he did not receive the Human Nature, but in time: Yet he was fitted for this work, by this sending and eternal mission of his before al time: this makes way for that work of Redemption,
The Human Nature hath a new manner of subsistence and alteration, according to its being, but there is no alteration in the Second Person. As Gods power is the same before the things were made: though they cannot be supported, but when they are made.
Again when the Human Nature is united; this union we know is in reason reall, me non cogitante.
If the proper being of the union issued only from the Human Nature, then there should be no difference, in regard of the persons, but they should share a like in it. ⟨p. 439⟩But that is false and Heretical. For neither Father, nor Holy Ghost are incarnate. Nor is the Human Nature taken into personal union or becomes one person with the Father on Holy Ghost. Therefore there is something of this union issues from the Second Person in an especial manner; and that is to receive it into personal union: for which he was fitted from eternity by his mission, but takes it up in the fullness of time, when he was sent by the Father thereunto.
If the proper being of the union issued only from the Human Nature, then there should be no difference, in regard of the persons, but they should share a like in it. ⟨p. 439⟩But that is false and Heretical. For neither Father, nor Holy Ghost are incarnate. Nor is the Human Nature taken into personal union or becomes one person with the Father on Holy Ghost. Therefore there is somthing of this union issues from the Second Person in an especial manner; and that is to receive it into personal union: for which he was fitted from eternity by his mission, but takes it up in the fulness of time, when he was sent by the Father thereunto.
