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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.
But unity of Affection is part of that glorious Grace, ⟨p. 103⟩which our Saviour hath given the faithful.
But unity of Affection is part of that glorious Grace, ⟨p. 103⟩which our Savior hath given the faithful.
So that it is the unity of relation. As the Father wholly and alone gives his being and Sonship to Christ: The Son, as he receives, so he returns his being to the Father, as things in relation look each to the other, receive and give consistence one to the other, and so may be said to be in each other, and to be one in this mutual respect. Joh. 14.10. Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? So here. As the Father is to Christ, looks only as a Father to a Son, and gives subsistence to him: The Son again looks, only to a Father, and returns his being & subsistence of a Son to him:
So that it is the unity of relation. As the Father wholly and alone gives his being and Sonship to Christ: The Son, as he receives, so he returnes his being to the Father, as things in relation look each to the other, receive and give consistence one to the other, and so may be said to be in each other, and to be one in this mutual respect. Joh. 14.10. Beleevest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? So here. As the Father is to Christ, looks only as a Father to a Son, and gives subsistence to him: The Son again looks, only to a Father, and returnes his being & subsistence of a Son to him: