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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.
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.
1. Its proper to him to have all Grace firstly in himself, in way and right of communication, for had he not been the son of man and son of God together, the way of Grace and life had been shut up from the sons of Adam. Hebr. 10.20. And in this sense it is said, That with him is the Well of life. Ps. 36.9. And he is said to be a fountain of living Waters; to have life in himself. Joh. 5.26. And to quicken whom he will. Joh. 5.21.
1. Its proper to him to have al Grace firstly in himself, in way and right of communication, for had he not been the son of man and son of God together, the way of Grace and life had been shut up from the sons of Adam. Hebr. 10.20. And in this sence it is said, That with him is the Wel of life. Ps. 36.9. And he is said to be a fountain of living Waters; to have life in himself.