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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.
Both which I cannot tell how more nakedly to lay open, than to express in several short propositions, or conclusions.
Both which I cannot tel how more nakedly to lay open, than to express in several short propositions, or conclusions.
1. The ground of this resemblance, taken from the manner of the Sons being in the Father, is not to be attended, nor ought to be considered in regard of the God Head or essence of the Deity: but in regard of their ⟨p. 42⟩subsistence, as they be distinct persons in this their dispensation. Therefore the word is in the plural: One in us, as showing the number of the persons: besides, they are put by way of particular distinction each to other; the Father in the Son, the Son in the Father, not so much as mentioning, nor yet taking the God-Head into the comparison, is common to them both indifferently; as I am in thee, not in the God-Head: thou in me, not as both in the God-Head, for that was to be one in a third, not in themselves.
1. The ground of this resemblance, taken from the manner of the Sons being in the Father, is not to be attended, nor ought to be considered in regard of the God Head or essence of the Deity: but in regard of their ⟨p. 42⟩subsistence, as they be distinct persons in this their dispensation. Therefore the word is in the plural: One in us, as shewing the number of the persons: besides, they are put by way of particular distinction each to other; the Father in the Son, the Son in the Father, not so much as mentioning, nor yet taking the God-Head into the comparison, is common to them both indifferently; as I am in thee, not in the God-Head: thou in me, not as both in the God-Head, for that was to be one in a third, not in themselves.