A44344:686
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.
In such mysteries, that we may be wise unto sobriety, and yet not slothful; neither too curious, to search more than we need, nor yet too careless, to neglect what God reveals: we shall study to walk in a safe path: and therefore I briefly answer generally, particularly.
In such mysteries, that we may be wise unto sobriety, and yet not slorthful; neither too curious, to search more than we need, nor yet too careless, to neglect what God reveales: we shal study to walk in a safe path: and therefore I briefly answer generally, particularly.
Generally.
This In-being or subsistence in the Father belongs firstly to the Son as second person, and to the human Nature so far, as the relation of Sonship leaves some impression, and so alteration thereupon, according to the Nature and condition thereof. So that the second person in the Trinity is no other, nor acts no otherwise than he did, in himself.
But this manner of existing or acting appears in the Human Nature and leaves new impressions in a special manner, and the Father also in and by him: and that in a three-fold regard.