Chap.t.Sett.3 Looking ur.~to :JefUJ, }3ook II· -------:------------------------:-t SECT. JIT, of that great treaty in eternity betwixt God and Chrift · to [ave fouls. N . Ow was it that God the Father called forth his Sonne to p~rforme the office of the Mediatour; that in him all thofe that fuould be faved might be chofen. Concerning this call of God the Father in a fpecial fort the Apofile is clear, No man ta- Heb. f · 4;-1, kph this hunour unto hilfJjtlf,but he that is catted of God, tU WM Aaron· fo alfo Chriff glorified not himft/f to be made an high . Priert,' but he that faid unto him, thou art my Stmne, to d1111 have I begotten thee, he called him to this honour; Chrift thrull not himfelfinto this office, but he came to it by the will of God the Father, and by his appointment ; for it pleafed the Father . hJ him to reconcile all things to himfelf; and him hath Godthe f~'1 610'~• Father fealed; and why? but the more to alfure us ofthe good 0 n ' 17. will ofGod to fave us, feeing he hath called his Sonne unto it : for therefore will be accept ofall that Chrift 1hould do for us, as that whidt he himfelfhath ordained. · And now was it that God the Sonne embraced the call of the Father, and undertook the office of Mediatour, thm [aid, I foe IHeb. 10.7 come. No queilion it was truth from everlafting ; the Lord God opened m7 mine eare, and I w.u n&t rebd!iot#, mither turnedifa. ro. r away b11ck. And as the Father gave me commandment, even)ohn14. ~~~ fo I do. No fooner the Father called, but Chrift accepts the of- John 6 • 17. fice to which he was deGgned by the Father : this is plaine by tbofe words, him hath god the Father foaled, fealed by ordination, and fealed by qualification, and fealed by way of iavdl:iture ; as pub like officers are invefted in their places by receiving their Commiffions under feale. And it muft needs be fo,be.. caufe wbatfoever the Fatber wills, the Sonne wills alfo ; I and my Father 111re one, faith·Chrift; how one? why, one in wiil, and John 10 dct ] one in power, and one in nature? I. One in will,that appears in the words precedent concerning Chrifts lheep, mJ Father i~tve Verfe :a them me? ·-_11nd I gi.ve unto them eternal life; they are both agreed to fave Chnfts {beep ; the Fa.ther is willing , and Chrift is wil- , .. . - X - -- linP ; , _ i;j ~
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