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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.
3. The manner how this spiritual presence is communicated.
Answ. It appears in the Nature and manner of it in three things,
Answ. It appeares in the Nature and maaner of it in three things,
1. The second person in the glorious Trinity assuming our Nature into mystical and personal union with himself, remaining the same person after the union which he was before the union, doth therein become surety ⟨p. 115⟩for the faithful, and enter into covenant with God the Father in their room, and purchase both Grace and glory in their behalf. For had he not taken the Nature of man, it had been unpossible he should have communicated unto man any good. So the Apostle reasons, when he would show the way how life came to be derived to the seed of Adam, and not unto Angels, gives this as the ground. Hebr. 2.16. For verily •e took not on him the Nature of Angels, but the Seed of Abraham. And therefore these were redeemed, life was conveyed unto these: the other in their sins and sorrows.
1. The second person in the glorious Trinity assuming our Nature into mystical and personal union with himself, remaining the same person after the union which he was before the union, doth therein become surety ⟨p. 115⟩for the faithful, and enter into covenant with God the Father in their room, and purchase both Grace and glory in their behalf. For had he not taken the Nature of man, it had been unpossible he should have communicated unto man any good. So the Apostle reasons, when he would shew the way how life came to be derived to the seed of Adam, and not unto Angels, gives this as the ground.