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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.
And the Lord Christ is thus spiritually present in his Church, as a head may be truly said to be really and rventually in the body. For this is the office of our Saviour and that in a proper and peculiar manner. He is said to be the Head of his Church, neither the Father nor the Holy Ghost. The Father is the Father of the Church: and Holy Spirit the Comforter of the Church: but Christ hath this impropriate in him, that He is the Head. Eph. 4.15. Grow up in •o him in all things ⟨p. 114⟩which is the head, even Christ. And Chap. 5.23. He is the head of the Church, and the Saviour of the body.
And the Lord Christ is thus spiritually present in his Church, as a head may be truly said to be really and rventually in the body. For this is the office of our Savior and that in a proper and peculiar manner. He is said to be the Head of his Church, neither the Father nor the Holy Ghost. The Father is the Father of the Church: and Holy Spirit the Comfortēr of the Church: but Christ hath this impropriate in him, that He is the Head. Eph. 4.15. Grow up in •o him in al things ⟨p. 114⟩which is the head, even Christ. And Chap. 5.23. He is the head of the Church, and the Savior of the body.
Because this appertains to him, not as God only, for then all the persons had partook thereof, as common: but as the second person in the Trinity sent of the Father working next in order from him, and as so sent and working, terminating the same Nature upon himself, for the great work of our Redemption, and so he is head.
Because this appertaines to him, not as God onely, for then al the persons had partaked thereof, as common: but as the second person in the Trinity sent of the Father working next in order from him, and as so sent and workking, terminating the same Nature upon himself, for the great work of our Redemption, and so he is head.