A44344:834
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.
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.
2. God loves the faithful with a like love of complacency as he doth the Son: stil attend the likeness not the largness and equality of it with Christ, God is first wel 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 meer 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 ful, and his rewarding justice please also.