A44344:824
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.
This Love carried to them, carries a lively expression, or is as a picture wherein the love of the Father to the Son is discovered in fresh colours, in an especial manner.
This Love carried to them, carries a lively expression, or is as a picture wherein the love of the Father to the Son is discovered in fresh colors, in an especial manner.
This love to the faithful, however it is impossible it could, not was it reasonable or suitable to the wisdom or goodness of the Lord it should equal the love of God to his Son, in the measure or largeness of it. Because that was infinite, unconceivable, incomprehensible, and therefore there is no equality of measure or greatness, which is beyond all measure: yet it comes up to it, as near as may be, in the proportion and likeness thereof, in like resemblance and answerableness thereunto, its not to be found in any creature, nor in the whole creation beside.
This love to the faithful, however it is impossible it could, not was it reasonable or suitable to the wisedom or goodness of the Lord it should equal the love of God to his Son, in the measure or largeness of it. Because that was infinite, unconceivable, incomprehensible, and therefore there is no equality of measure or greatness, which is beyond al measure: yet it comes up to it, as neer as may be, in the proportion and likeness thereof, in like resemblance and answerableness thereunto, its not to be found in any creature, nor in the whol creation beside.
As it is in the Parhelion. Its like the Sun in appearance and resemblance, yet in no wise equal, either for bigness or greatness, or the virtues thereof. So it is with this love of God to the Saints, it lively resembles, not fully equals the love of the Father to the Lord Jesus. We shall further follow the several particulars.