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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.
2. The ready way how to apprehend it, is made good in four Particulars. 1. The same Essence of the God-head, doth equally, and indifferently in the whole Nature of it, belong to all the Persons in the Deity: So that whatsoever is said of one, may be affirmed of the other. They are all Eternal, all Infinite, all Omnipotent, Omniscient, &c. because all God. As a man may be said to teach himself, and so is a Master, and Scholar; a Master, as he teacheth; and a Scholar, as he is taught. Now the whole man is both, not a part of him a Scholar, a part of him a Teacher; but the whole Nature of Man bears up both Relations. 2. Hence the Persons in the God-head, are distinct, truly amongst themselves, yet cannot be separated, or divided one from another; but where-ever the God-head ⟨p. 132⟩is, they are, and where-ever one is, all are; because the whole Essence is in every one, and every one with the whole Essence. 3. Subsistence of the Persons, looks at the Essence, yet not as it is Essence barely, but as it is with the Relative Properties; and so those Relative Properties by their Mutual Respect or Relation, give being each to other. 2. Subsistence looks at the Essence, as Essence, and so they attend upon, it adjoin to it, and do accompany it, as the manner of the thing, doth the thing.
2. The ready way how to apprehend it, is made good in four Particulars. 1. The same Essence of the God-head, doth equally, and indifferently in the whol Nature of it, belong to all the Persons in the Deity: So that whatsoever is said of one, may be affirmed of the other. They are al Eternal, al Infinite, al Omnipotent, Omniscient, &c. because al God. As a man may be said to teach himself, and so is a Master, and Scholler; a Master, as he teacheth; and a Scholler, as he is taught. Now the whol man is both, not a part of him a Scholler, a part of him a Teacher; but the whol Nature of Man bears up both Relations. 2. Hence the Persons in the God-head, are distinct, truly amongst themselves, yet cannot be separated, or divided one from another; but where-ever the God-head ⟨p. 132⟩is, they are, and where-ever one is, al are; because the whol Essence is in every one, and every one with the whol Essence. 3. Subsistence of the Persons, looks at the Essence, yet not as it is Essence barely, but as it is with the Relative Properties; and so those Relative Properties by their Mutual Respect or Relation, give being each to other. 2. Subsistence looks at the Essence, as Essence, and so they attend upon, it adjoyn to it, and do accompany it, as the manner of the thing, doth the thing.