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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.
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.
Viz. Of Union. Mission. Operation, The Father his act in the son, and the son from the Father, discover new impressions here, and all of them in a special manner follow these relations.
Viz. Of Ʋnion. Mission. Operation, The Father his act in the son, and the son from the Father, discover new impressions here, and all of them in a special manner follow these relations.
1. The second person takes the Human Nature into Personal UNION with himself: so that there are not two Sons, but one son: and therefore as the son is in the Father, the Human Nature, by the son, may be said so to be, being one person with him. For as the Father gives being to the Son, and the son receiving returns ⟨p. 135⟩his being unto the Father: So the Human Nature hath a total dependence upon the Son, and reference to him, and in him to the Father. And therefore as to be reflected is the property of the second person, or looking back to the Father, or returning his subsistence: So our Nature in Christ, looks to Christ, having a total dependence upon Christ, and being one person with him, looks as the second person wholly to the Father. And whether the return of the Saints in God, and of all things in them, be not firstly from hence, inquire, it will do you no harm.
1. The second person takes the Human Nature into Personal UNION with himself: so that there are not two Sons, but one son: and therefore as the son is in the Father, the Human Nature, by the son, may be said so to be, being one person with him. For as the Father gives being to the Son, and the son receiving returnes