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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.
What the Son, as the Son, begotten of the Father gives to the human Nature, that the Father gives firstly.
But this personal union, the Son, as from the Father, gives: Therefore the Father gives it firstly. Upon this ground is that Inference also or the Apostle. Col. 2.9, 10. The Apostle would have them walk in Christ, in the power of his Grace, and in the direction of his rule and government and he joins these two together, as the reason, For in him dwells the fullness of the God-Head Bodily, Nor by way of type, but truly, nor yet by communication of virtue, which he doth to and in the Saints, nor yet by sacramental relation, as he doth accompany his ordinances, but the very essence of the God-Head in the second person supports the Human Nature, as one person with it. This is the Union. verse, 10. Ye are complete in him, who is the Head &c. Complete in all-Grace, to enable in all the fullness of wisdom, a•• Prophet, and rule, as a King, to guide you in the ways of his Grace. He is the Head from, the former of all life and motion. If the fullness of the God-Head personally, then the fullness of all Grace dwells in him.
But this personal union, the Son, as from the Father, gives: Therefore the Father gives it firstly. Upon this ground is that Inference also or the Apostle. Col. 2.9, 10. The Apostle would have them walk in Christ, in the power of his Grace, and in the direction of his rule and government and he joyns these two together, as the reason, For in him dwels the fullness of the God-Head Bodily, Nor by way of type, but truly, nor yet by communication of vertue, which he doth to and in the Saints, nor yet by sacramental relation, as he doth accompany his ordinances, but the very essence of the God-Head in the second person supports the Human Nature, as one person with it. This is the Union. verse, 10. Ye are complete in him, who is the Head &c. Compleat in al-Grace, to inable in al the fulness of wisedom, a•• Prophet, and rule, as a King, to guid you in the waies of his Grace. He is the Head from, the former of al life and motion. If the fullness of the God-Head personally, then the fulness of al Grace dwels in him.