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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.
Hence, what the Father doth, the son is said to do also. Joh. 5.26. As the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the son to have life in himself. Verse, 19. What ever things he doth, those the son doth likewise: for as the Father raiseth up the dead, even so he. Joh. 17.2. Thou hast given him power over all Flesh, to give unto them eternal life. He that must rescue them from Hell, and sin, and death, and from divine Justice, he must have power over all: That the power in Heaven, may not prejudice and frustrate the work: in Hell hinder it: on earth oppose it.
Hence, what the Father doth, the son is said to do also. Joh. 5.26. As the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the son to have life in himself. Verse, 19. What ever things he doth, those the son doth likewise: for as the Father raiseth up the dead, even so he. Joh. 17.2. Thou hast given him power over all Flesh, to give unto them eternal life. He that must rescue them from Hel, and sin, and death, and from divine Justice, he must have power over al: That the power in Heaven, may not prejudice and frustrate the work: in Hel hinder it: on earth oppose it.
4. The Father leaves the immediate dispensation of all the work unto him, to act it, according to his own pleasure. For so our Saviour, As the Father raiseth, and quickeneth, so the son quickeneth whom he will. Joh. 5.21: And adds verse, 22. For the Father judgeth no ⟨p. 63⟩man: but hath committed all judgment to the son. Not that the Father hath not power for the execution of the work. For he that gives it, hath it in a principal and sovereign manner. But he hath committed the immediate execution thereof unto the Lord Jesus, and so of the whole work of our Redemption.