A44344:274
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.
2. I answer affirmatively in a word,
The unity here meant is the unity of that spiritual relation which they have to Christ, and in him to God the Father; not the unity of affection or charity, which they have one to another, and one between another.
That which is more excellent than this unity of affection, as being the end unto that, is ordained unto that, as the end, that must be something beyond it: so this unity is.
That which is more excellent than this unity of affection, as being the end unto that, is ordained unto that, as the end, that must be somthing beyond it: so this unity is.
That which is properly bounded by the words of the text, and intendment of the place, upon Christ, and the Father in him; That unity is not the unity of affection, but of relation.