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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
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But he is made this to us, not of himself, but of the Father, for so still the word, and Name of God is to be taken, as appears, verse, 24. Christ is the power of God, and the Wisdom of God. Christ is made our ⟨p. 138⟩Redemption, and we are made his redeemed ones, and the Father makes both, he our Redemption, and we his redeemed.
But he is made this to us, not of himself, but of the Father, for so stil the word, and Name of God is to be taken, as appears, verse, 24. Christ is the power of God, and the Wisedom of God. Christ is made our ⟨p. 138⟩Redemption, and we are made his redeemed ones, and the Father makes both, he our Redemption, and we his redeemed.
And this is the cause, why the Apostle is so enlarged, inlaying forth the sovereignty of the Fathers work, beyond all the compass either of the being of the creature, or the Graces and apprehensions of all Churches. Eph. 4.5, 6. There is one Lord Jesus, one Faith, and one Baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Above all, even in the highest power that is dispensed in his Church; Christ is the Head and Husband, the Holy Spirit the comforter, God is the Father. Through all the operations and administrations that are in the Churches and Graces dispensed, He sends his Son to the great work of our Redemption. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 2 Tim. 1.4. — Given us Grace in Christ Jesus before the world was. He sends the Spirit in the work of Application. Joh. 26. In all the Saints, as drawing and conjoining the hearts of the faithful, as fellow Brethren, unto himself with the Father and one to another in him, and for him. So one in relation here, as well as in a Saviour.