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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.
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.
Take it in this breadth and extent, you shal 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.
When-ever then the action with the manner also from such a person, are comprehended in this sending; It is […] given to, or affirmed of the Father: because it sig•••ie not an act only expressed by a person, but an […] from a person in such a manner, as that he hath Au•••••y in way of order originally to act before another at the least: And the other to act from him.