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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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2. So the Father loves the Son, as Man, also in all the former particulars and in all the several properties of them, so far as a finite creature is, or can be made capable thereof, not only in regard of the compass of its own ability, but as far, as underpropped and supported by an almighty power. I shall point at the former specialties in so many words.
2. So the Father loves the Son, as Man, also in al the former particulars and in all the several properties of them, so far as a finite creature is, or can be made capable thereof, not only in regard of the compass of its own ability, but as far, as underpropped and supported by an almighty power. I shal point at the former specialties in so many words.
1. In regard of union; here in the surpassing excellency of the love of the Father appeared, that he brought it into so near a fellowship with himself, that it doth not only exceed all the power of the creature, to work such a union, but even the reach of all reason of men and Angels to comprehend it. For not only the Essence of the Deity takes up its dwelling and abode there bodily, but its taken into the very subsistence of the second person, and melts into the personality of the second person: and hence it is, the Grace of union is indeed accounted a Grace of the greatest excellency, above all other, and in truth it is so, not only in regard of the privilege whereby our Human Nature is advanced one degree above the excellency of the creatures of highest rank: for of that the place is meant, and that the Apostle intends, Hebr. 2.8 That all things are put in subjection to our Human Nature in Christ. He took not the seed of Angels, but of Abraham. When he bringeth his first born into the world, worship him, all the Angels, even as God-man but I say, not only in regard of the height or the privilege, this Grace of union is to be attended: But in regard of the unmatchable efficacy and Peerlessness of power, that exceeds the bounds of my created ability: In that the subsistence it hath by this, is no other, but the subsistence of the second person. In that the Angels