A44344:664
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
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We are now come to the first fountain and original, from whence this spiritual privilege and unity hath his rise dispensed and communicated, That is, from the In-being of the Father in Christ. This is the highest degree, further than which, we cannot ascend. God the Father in Christ, and he in him: Christ in them, and ⟨p. 129⟩they in Christ, and so in the Father also.
We are now come to the first fountain and original, from whence this spiritual priviledg and unity hath his rise dispensed and communicated, That is, from the In-being of the Father in Christ. This is the highest degree, further than which, we cannot ascend. God the Father in Christ, and he in him: Christ in them, and ⟨p. 129⟩they in Christ, and so in the Father also.
Hence two Points to discuss.
1. The Father is in the Son. Or, There is a mutual subsistence of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Father. 2. The Subsistence of the Father in the Son, in the first rise, or Original; whence the Saints come to be one with the Son, and the Father.