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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.
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.
As it is in the Parelion. Its like the Sun in appearance and resemblance, yet in no wise equal, either for bigness or greatness, or the vertues 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 shal further follow the several particulars.
1. The Father loves us with the like love of union, as he did Jesus Christ. The Father wholly and alone gives being to Jesus Christ, and that thus appears.
The Father stands in relation to the Son, looks only towards him, his Eye is ever upon him: The Son as he receives, so he returns his being as a Son to the Father. As Relations refer each to other only; and hence the Father is said to be in the Son, the Son in the Father. ⟨p. 166⟩Verse, 22. As I told you before, my hand closing and closed are one in another, both with the hand. The Father looks to the Son in giving: The Son to the Father in returning his being. They are perfect in this, wholly give, wholly take. Thus they wholly delighted in each other, mutually glorified each other. Verse, 2. Now as God in Christ thus begets and gives being of Sonship: So Christ as Son and second person he so assumes: for had he assumed as God, all had assumed. But he assumes person, and to say, that any person assumes, but the Son, is Heresy. Therefore its peculiar to the Son, and that as Son, then as begotten, and as such, he assumes, and becomes the Head of the covenant and so he begets and gives being of Adopted Sons to the faithful, sending his Spirit immutably to set their hearts for God, and to hold the bent thereof towards him. Thus receiving this impression from Christ, and so from God the Father through Christ.