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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.
As a Son, he assumes our Nature, and as a Son with our Nature looks to the Father. Therefore said, he doth nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. Joh. 5.19. As the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to he Son, to have life in himself because the Son of man verse, 26.27.
4. As the Father is said to beget his Son, and give being to him, so the Son, as thus begotten assumes our Nature, be comes the Head of the covenant and gives being of Sonship to his Children, and they return all that being to the Lord Christ, and the Father in him Therefore called the eternal Father. Isa. 9.6. Hebr. 2.1, 3. Here am I, and the Children thou hast given me called also his seed. The manner of which words may thus be conceived.
4. As the Father is said to beget his Son, and give being to him, so the Son, as thus begotten assumes our Nature, be comes the Head of the covenant and gives being of Sonship to his Children, and they returne al that being to the Lord Christ, and the Father in him Therefore called the eternal Father. Isa. 9.6. Hebr. 2.1, 3. Here am I, and the Children thou hast given me called also his seed. The manner of which words may thus be conceived.
The Lord hath purchased the Spirit, he is said then to beget, when he sends the spirit of Sons in•o their Hearts, which by the immutable assistance thereof, sets their hearts for God, holds the bent thereof towards him alone, as their Father, and principle of life. As they receive this being of Sons they return it wholly to the Father in Christ: The whole man, in the whole, and that with his whole strength, fastens upon God in Christ, acted wholly by the influence of his spirit, and holds the not excellency thereof.