of God vtncl his '¥/ill. 65 our Nature into Perfonal Vnion with himfelf, in order unto the work ofhisMediation. Sois hethe only Reprefentative Image of God unto us; in whom alone we fee, know and learn all theDivine Excellencies, fo as to live unto God, and be directed unto the Enjoyment of h1m. All this himfelf infiruB:-s us in. He reflects it on the Pharifees as an EffeCl: of their Blind~ nefs and Ignoranee, that they had neither heard the Poice of God at any time. nor Jeen his jhape, Joh. ). 37· And in oppo– fition hereunto he tells his Defciples, that they had known the Father anti feen hirn, Chap, 14. 7· And the Reafonlie gives thereof, is hcaufe they that knew him, knew the Father alfo. And when one ofhis Defciples not yet fufficiently infl:rufred in this M.JflelJ', replied, Lordjhew_us the Father and itfujjiceth w, v. 9· His anfwer is, have I been fo lvng time with;·ou, and haft thou not known me; he that hathfeen me hath feen the Father; v. 10. Three things are required unto the ju!l:ification of this .Af– fertion. I. ThattheFather and he be of the fame Nature, have the fame Effenceand Being. For otherwife it would not follow, , · that he .who hadfeen him hadJeen the Father aljo. This Ground of it he declares in the next verfe, The Father is in me, and I am in the Father. Namely, ·becaufe they w;ere one in NatureandEffence. For the Divine Nature being fimplythe fame in ~hem all, the Divine Perfons are in each other by Vettue of the .Onenefs of that Nature. 2. That he be diflinB from him. Forotherwife therecim– not be afeeing, ofthe Father bythefeeing, of him. He is feen iri the Son as t:eprefented by bim, as his Image; the Word, the Son of the Father, as he was with God. .The Unity of Na– ture, and the di!l:inCl:ioa of Perfons, is the Ground of that Affertion of our Saviour; he that hath feen me, hath feen the Father alfo. · K · 3.~But
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