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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.
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:
1. Love affects Union, and where it can it attains it with most strength. So it is here, after an unconceivable manner, the Father is intimately endeared unto his Son, that his Eye is never off him, himself never from him. Therefore it is in Prov. 8.22. the Father is said to possess him in the beginning of his way. He was all the proper possession the Father had, and holds from Eternity: and this is the meaning of that other Phrase, verse 30. I was with him, as one brought up with him. ⟨p. 148⟩The Phrase is marvellous sweet and pregnant, as one nursed up with him in his Bosom, and Bowels, from everlasting. God the Father is compared to a Guardian of the Lord Jesus, whom he keeps under his wing. I am not alone, the Father is ever with me; yea, the Father and I am one.
1. Love affects Union, and where it can it attains it with most strength. So it is here, after an unconceivable manner, the Father is intimately endeared unto his Son, that his Eye is never off him, himself never from him. Therefore it is in