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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.
3. In regard of OPERATION. For the second person, in virtue of that his relation, he not only hath commission from another, but works from another, and so executes the will of the Father. And thus lastly the second person takes the Human Nature into this dispensation, to work all from the Father, and that the second person doth, by virtue of this relation, and so of this Inbeing of the Father in him. See the very ground given. Joh. 10.10. The word, I speak is not mine, but the Father that dwells in me &c. Joh. 8.38. For the works sake, believe, that the Father is in me, and I in the Father. Joh. 5. The Son doth nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do. Issue the whole, Thus.
3. In regard of OPERATION. For the second person, in vertue of that his relation, he not only hath commission from another, but works from another, and so executes the wil of the Father. And thus lastly the second person takes the Human Nature into this dispensation, to work al from the Father, and that the second person doth, by vertue of this relation, and so of this Inbeing of the Father in him. See the very ground given. Joh. 10.10. The word, I speak is not mine, but the Father that dwels in me &c. Joh. 8.38. For the works sake, bele•ve, that the Father is in me, and I in the Father. Joh. 5. The Son doth nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do. Issue the whol, Thus.
What ever the second person, and Son of God, as such, doth: that he doth by virtue of his eternal generation from the Father, and from his abiding in him. But as Son he takes our Nature into personal union with himself and as Son advanceth it to that privilege and liberty, to set all the Attributes on work, and to send the Holy Ghost, yea sends all Officers, and appoints all Offices, and blesseth them.