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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.
Now, in that Moses was a Mediator, it shows there was diverse parties differing and disagreeing one from another: for a Mediator is not of one: not of parties that are at unity and agreement; but God is one, ever like himself and the same. Therefore the cause of difference was not on Gods part, but by Reason of transgression; which shows man to be other, than he was by Nature, full of guilt and sin, and that's the reason God is at odds with him, as he is departed from God.
Now, in that Moses was a Mediator, it shews there was diverse parties differing and disagreeing one from another: for a Mediator is not of one: not of parties that are at unity and agreement; but God is one, ever like himself and the same. Therefore the cause of difference was not on Gods part, but by Reason of trangression; which shews man to be other, than he was by Nature, ful of guilt and sin, and that's the reason God is at odds with him, as he is departed from God.
Now the scope of our Saviours coming is, to bring the Soul back again unto God, by himself, and to make it one with the Father and himself. It was beyond the power of any created Grace to bring back a fallen Soul; but the God-Head of Christ, in the Nature of man assumed, must bring the Nature of man to God again. And where as, it was found by proof in our first parents; that the power of created Grace did not, nay indeed could not, hold the Soul unchangeably to him, and so to act by, and for him.
Now the scope of our Saviors coming is, to bring the Soul back again unto God, by himself, and to make it one with the Father and himself. It was beyond the power of any created Grace to bring back a fallen Soul; but the God-Head of Christ, in the Nature of man assumed, must bring the Nature of man to God again. And where as, it was found by proof in our first parents; that the power of created Grace did not, nay indeed could not, hold the Soul unchangeably to him, and so to act by, and for him.