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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.
Not as the second person in the glorious Trinity, whereby, he is God blessed for ever, equal with the Father: for so the Apostle professeth Phil. 2.6. Being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God, i.e. Had the glory of the Deity truly appertaining to him, and the God-Head dwelling in him, and knew his own worth and right; therefore willingly submitted himself to that Under-condition, not by constraint, for he well understood what his due was.
Not as the second person in the glorious Trinity, whereby, he is God blessed for ever, equal with the Father: for so the Apostle professeth Phil. 2.6. Being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God, i.e. Had the glory of the Deity truly appertaining to him, and the God-Head dwelling in him, and knew his own worth and right; therefore willingly submitted himself to that Under-condition, not by constraint, for he wel understood what his due was.
But as he was God and man, and assumed our Nature, and became mediator in our Room and stead. So he professeth of himself: That his Father is greater than he. As he took upon him the form of a servant, became our surety, and came in the similitude of sinful flesh, yet without sin. Joh. 14.28. In his voluntary and free dispensation, as he was willing to take our flesh, and dwell thereby amongst us, so is he inferior to himself, as ⟨p. 60⟩God, and so to his Father. And yet take the work it self, and the manner of the work, as it was explicated before, and the phrase of sending implies; he is only sent of the Father. But look at the work Early, he may be said to be sent by all: but that is unusual, nay in open phrase never to be found in Scripture, because the word comes not in that sense to our view.