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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.
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⟩the little light I have, how to give a savory 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.
2. God loves the faithful with a like love of complacency as he doth the Son: still attend the likeness not the largness and equality of it with Christ, God is first well pleased, and in him, with is; and such a complacency the Father takes in the Son, as no creature indeed could procure, and therefore no mere creature was able to receive, and without Christ none ever could have been made partaker of it. For had Adam obeyed the Law, and done that which suited the covenant and so answered the rewarding justice of the Lord, yet the revenging justice of the Lord had not yet been manifested. When then sin was committed, and an infinite justice wrought, and an infinite punishment deserved it was beyond the compass of any creature to answer that wrong, pay that debt. Therefore the Lord Jesus takes our Nature, that he may suffer, and support our Nature in suffering, by the power of his Deity, that it sink not under the infinite wrath and justice of the Father: and so this revenging justice is answered to the very full, and his rewarding justice please also.