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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 Christ looks only towards the Father, as his Son begotten, as he receives so he returns. So the faithful, under the impression of the spirit of Christ, as his begotten and adopted ones, look towards him, leave their hearts with him, as of him, to receive all, as from him, to do all.
As Christ looks only towards the Father, as his Son begotten, as he receives so he returnes. So the faithful, under the impression of the spirit of Christ, as his begotten and adopted ones, look towards him, leave their hearts with him, as of him, to receive al, as from him, to do al.
If Christ, as begotten of the Father, and one with him, and abiding in him, doth from the Father beget his adopted ones, and makes them one with the Father and himself: then doth the Father love the faithful with the like love of union, as his Son issues, from a like ground, is in a like manner dispensed. Only the odds, is in the measure. His love infinite, immediate, inconceivable: This finite, mediate, and proportionable to the condition of a creature. And I cannot see, by all ⟨p. 168⟩the little light I have, how to give a savoury and seasonable interpretation of the place, but according to this ground. Joh. 10.14, 15. I know mine; his sheep, his Sons, whom he hath taken to himself; and am known of them his knowing of them makes himself to be known, and the rise from whence this comes, verse, 15. As my Father knows me and I am known of my Father.
If Christ, as begotten of the Father, and one with him, and abiding in him, doth from the Father beget his adopted ones, and makes them one with the Father and himself: then doth the Father love the faithful with the like love of union, as his Son issues, from a like ground, is in a like manner dispensed. Only the odds, is in the measure. His love infinite, immediate, inconceiveable: This finite, mediate, and proportionable to the condition of a creature. And I cannot see, by al ⟨p. 168⟩