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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.
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.
Thus the Apostle disputes, and the connection implies so much. Col. 1.15. He is the image of the Invisible God (i. e. as second person,) and so in him all things consist; and by him all created: and he is the Head of the Body, the Church and the Issue of all is, For it pleased the Father, that in him all fullness should dwell. i.e. all the fullness of all Grace is in Christ, in that he is Head, and so head, as that he is also the invisible image of the Father. In a word,
Thus the Apostle disputes, and the connection implyes so much. Col. 1.15. He is the image of the Invisible God (i. e. as second person,) and so in him all things consist; and by him al created: and he is the Head of the Body, the Church and the Issue of al is, For it pleased the Father, that in him all fulness should dwel. i.e. al the fullness of al Grace is in Christ, in that he is Head, and so head, as that he is also the invisible image of the Father. In a word,
Look what the Human Nature did receive from the Son, as a Son, and begotten of the Father, that it receives by gift also and firstly from the Father, because what the Son doth, as Son, he doth it from the Father.