A44344:282
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.
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.
2. Their being each in other, issues out of the mutual respect they have each unto the other. The Father wholly and alone gives his being and sonship unto Christ: The Son, as he receives, so he returns his being to the Father, as relates, or things in relation, look each to other alone, receive and give consistence one to another, and depend each upon other, in that behalf, and so to be in the other mutually, their very constitution and being, rising from this concurrence, mutual holding each upon the other; and o may be truly said to be in each other. As buying is in reference ever to selling. Giving ever in reference to taking: so that one cannot be without the other, give being each to other, and so may be said to be in each other.