A44344:1489
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened…
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.A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union beleevers have with God and Christ, and the glorious priviledges 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 Nye.
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.
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.