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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.
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.
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 sence, 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.
Take it in this breadth and extent, you shall find, that in scripture, the Son and holy Spirit are only said to be sent, and it is never attributed to the Father. Gal. 4.4. God sent his son. Joh. 15.26. But when the Comforter shall come, whom I will send unto you from the Father. And this cannot be any created Grace or work, for the words following determine that full. The Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father. Joh. 14.20. But the Comforter, which is the holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name.