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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.
We must know, That when we attribute these Perfections, either to the God-head, or Persons, they are not attended in propriety of Speech, as though the Godhead, or Persons, were subject to such passions and affections, as are in man signified by such words. But they are spoken by way of resemblance and similitude, that there be some actions affirmed of the God-head, and Persons, and put forth by them, which men out of the Disposition of Love, do put forth.
Sometimes again, Love, as it is affirmed to proceed from God […] Christ, discovers not only, nor so much, the act of God properly, but the Fruits and Effects, which issue, and proceed from Gods Love, and are expressed upon our Saviour Christ, and blessings which flow from, and are procured by his own Merits.
Sometimes again, Love, as it is affirmed to proceed from God 〈…〉 Christ, discovers not only, nor so much, the act of God properly, but the Fruits and Effects, which issue, and proceed from Gods Love, and are expressed upon our Savior Christ, and blessings which flow from, and are procured by his own Merits.
Which may be truly called the cause of the things, or the fruits of Gods Love, not properly the cause of any Act, as it issues from the Lord. John, 10.17. The Father loveth me, because I lay down my life for my Sheep. Nothing without God is the cause of any act of Gods Will, or Understanding; but the laying down of his life may be the cause of that Glory, which the Father had intended, and he according to the Fathers intention, had purchased, Phil. 2. He humbled himself to the Death, the death of the Cross; wherefore God hath exalted him, and hath given him a Name, &c.