A44344:283
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. 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.
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 returnes 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 refe••nce 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.
So the Father, as such, looks only to the Son: the Son looks only to the Father. He is not a Father, because God, but, because he hath a Son. The Son is not therefore Son, because he is God, but because he hath a Father: for they are both equally one God and have the Deity indifferently agreeing to them both. As a man is not therefore a Husband, because he is a man, for then every man should be a husband, but in reference to the Woman he hath married.