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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.
Thus he becomes the Head of the Church. For the second person in the Trinity, sent of the Father, works next in order from him.
As so sent and working, terminates the Human Nature upon himself, for the great work of Redemption. And so its proper to him, bringing our Human Nature under the commission offending, to have all Grace firstly in way of right of communication. He being thus sent, and having the commission of all Grace, he is head of the Church, neither the Father nor the Holy Spirit in propriety of speech. Thus said to give him authority to Judg, because he is the son of man. Joh. 5.27. That is because he is taken into personal union and so under that commission, as sent from the Fathers as the second person was. Thus usually he shows authority. Joh. 14.20. The word, which you hear, is not mine, but ⟨p. 136⟩the Fathers which sent me. And verse, 26. The Father sends the comforter in the name of Christ; therefore the commission was first his.
As so sent and working, terminates the Human Nature upon himself, for the great work of Redemption. And so its proper to him, bringing our Human Nature under the commission offending, to have al Grace firstly in way of right of communication. He being thus sent, and having the commission of al Grace, he is head of the Church, neither the Father nor the Holy Spirit in propriety of speech. Thus said to give him authority to Judg, because he is the son of man. Joh. 5.27. That is because he is taken into personal union and so under that commission, as sent from the Fathers as the second person was. Thus usually he shews authority. Joh. 14.20. The word, which you hear, is not mine, but ⟨p. 136⟩