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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.
That Christ is sent by God the Father for the Redemption of his. It needs no further witness to settle it, the words are so express. We will a little open it that as it is true, so it may be plain and evident, and so much the rather, because our Saviour lays so great a weight ⟨p. 58⟩upon it and bestows the very strength of his prayer in the first place, for the attainment of the acknowledgement thereof. And to speak once for all, 1. What the word & the weight of the phrase carries. 2. In what regard our Saviour is said to be sent. 3. Wherein this sending lies.
That Christ is sent by God the Father for the Redemption of his. It needs no further witness to settle it, the words are so express. We will a little open it that as it is true, so it may be plain and evident, and so much the rather, because our Savior laies so great a weight ⟨p. 58⟩upon it and bestows the very strength of his prayer in the first place, for the attainement of the acknowledgment thereof. And to speak once for all, 1. What the word & the weight of the phrase carries. 2. In what regard our Savior is said to be sent. 3. Wherein this sending lies.
1. The word sending, or as the Latin phrase hath it, Mission, carries ever two things in it.
1. The Authority of him that sends, in respect of the party that is sent: but it is not the authority of dominion and rule so much, as that Authority of order or communication of a work from one unto another. And in this sense, he only can be said to be sent, who works from another, and works not originally from himself. 2. It implies a new act or impression upon the creature, whereby it hath it's self in some other frame or disposition than formerly.