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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.
The Lord Christ is said, and that truly, to be the Object of this Fathers Love, two ways.
The Lord Christ is said, and that truly, to be the Object of this Fathers Love, two waies.
Partly As the Second Person, God with the Father. As God-Man, taking our Nature upon him.
1. The first respect: If we look at the Lord Jesus as the Second Person, his Eternal Love then issues from his Eternal Generation. So himself speaks, and confesses, verse 24. Thou hast loved me before the Foundation of the World, and so termed the only begotten, and well-beloved Son. And it shows it self as the special operation of the most p••e, and perfect Love doth, in three Particulars:
1. The first respect: If we look at the Lord Jesus as the Second Person, his Eternal Love then issues from his Eternal Generation. So himself speaks, and confesses, verse 24. Thou hast loved me before the Foundation of the World, and so termed the only begotten, and welbeloved Son. And it shews it self as the special operation of the most p••e, and perfect Love doth, in three Particulars: