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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.
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.
The first of these, we had it propounded by way of comparison, to lay forth the manner of that oneness and unity, for which our Saviour here, prays the Saints might attain unto. And we then reserved the full handling of it unto this place: the words in the foregoing Verse are so express, as nothing more.
The first of these, we had it propounded by way of comparison, to lay forth the manner of that oneness and unity, for which our Saviour here, praies the Saints might attain unto. And we then reserved the ful handling of it unto this place: the words in the foregoing Verse are so express, as nothing more.
As thou in me, and I in thee.
And it is not for nothing that our Saviour carries the thoughts of his Disciples, and keeps them there in the settled, continual consideration thereof, as if it were the hinge; upon which all happiness and comfort doth hang, and therefore we should stay in a kind of unmovable attendance thereon.