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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.
Answ. He received this Grace as man, not as God, or as the second person properly, for so he is equal to the Father, and hath equal propriety in all the Attributes of the God-Head. Besides, the Grace here is that which is given to believers: but so that cannot be.
Answ. He received this Grace as man, not as God, or as the second person properly, for so he is equal to the Father, and hath equal propriety in al the Attributes of the God-Head. Besides, the Grace here is that which is given to beleevers: but so that cannot be.
He receives it therefore as man and that by gift, saith the Text, for our Saviour acknowledgeth it.
He receives it therefore as man and that by gift, saith the Text, for our Savior acknowledgeth it.
1. It is Given by the Grace of personal Union, in that it pleased God the Father, that the second person, his beloved son, should take our Nature into personal Union, so that though he was a perfect person before that was assumed, yet he remained one and the same person after it was assumed; there he two Natures, but one person still.