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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.
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.
And hence the Father is said to be in the Son, and the Son in the Father, namely to be one in this mutual respect. The Father had an Eye only to the Son in giving his subsistence of a Son: The Son again hath an Eye to ⟨p. 43⟩the Father alone, returning the being of his sonship to him. And they are prefect in this; They wholly give, wholly take. Thus they are said to be in each other. Joh. 14.10. Believest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? so said again, to be one with another, and delighting one in another. Prov. 8.30. And mutually to glorify one another. Father glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. Joh. 17.1.
And hence the Father is said to be in the Son, and the Son in the Father, namely to be one in this mutual respect. The Father had an Eye only to the Son in giving his subsistence of a Son: The Son again hath an Eye to ⟨p. 43⟩the Father alone, returning the being of his sonship to him. And they are prefect in this; They wholly give, wholly take. Thus they are said to be in each other. Joh. 14.10. Beleevest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? so said again, to be one with another, and delighting one in another.