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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.
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:
So Christ to the faithful. He gives Spiritual being in Adoption to them, as his Sons only: They as Sons return all that spiritual being to him again. So our Saviour; As I am one in them, and thou in me, and by spiritual influence communicate the being of Sons to them. So they are one in me, and to in thee, by receiving and returning all alone unto us. So that our Saviour doth not only bring the Soul of the faithful into the nee•est relation of dearest love as Adopted Sons; But also into that spiritual intercourse of the peculiar and divine operation of God upon the Soul whereby the Soul returns unto God, to do all, and receive all. To do all for himself in man: To receive all to himself by man.