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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.
But because the Father cannot act from the Son and ⟨p. 59⟩Holy Ghost: but both Son and Holy Ghost, they do not act only, but act in their order and manner from another; the Son from the Father, and the Holy Ghost from both: therefore they are truly said to be sent.
But if they look at the act only, which is expressed upon the creature, then this sending is, and ought to be given to all the persons. As the Incarnation of our Saviour is one thing in his sending. Therefore those two are joined. God sent his Son made of a Woman, as made, so sent: and herein the Holy Ghost had a hand, whether we look at the sanctification of the seed in the Womb, or the uniting of it to the second person. There all the persons work. So likewise in the dispensation of the office of our Saviour, in his whole proceeding, the works of the Holy Ghost went along. Isa. 61. The Spirit of God was upon me, he sent me to preach, and he preached and performed all those great works by the strength and operation of his spirit.
But if they look at the act only, which is expressed upon the creature, then this sending is, and ought to be given to all the presons. As the Incarnation of our Savior is one thing in his sending. Therefore those two are joined. God sent his Son made of a Woman, as made, so sent: and herein the Holy Ghost had a hand, whether we look at the sanctification of the seed in the Womb, or the uniting of it to the second person. There al the persons work. So likewise in the dispensation of the office of our Savior, in his whol proceeding, the works of the Holy Ghost went along. Isa. 61. The Spirit of God was upon me, he sent me to preach, and he preached and performed all those great works by the strength and operation of his spirit.