66 Book.U. Looking unto 1efus. ~ Chap.I, Seei3. ling: look how ~u~h ~he will ofthe Father is in .it , fo much the will ofthe Sonne 1510 tt, for he .rnd the F.rther are o11e, 2. One in power; that appears likewife in the words precedent , thefe jheep /ball never perifh, (faith Chrill) neither jhR!/ any man pl11ck. them out of m1 hand: my Father u greater then t:~l!, •md no man u able to pluck_ rhem ollt of my Fathers hand : here is firft the power ofChrill, and all in him engaged for the falvation of his !beep, that if he have any power in him, and be able to do any thing, not one of them !hall peri!h; and he gives the reafon of the prevalen<>:y of his power from his Fathers power, engaged as much as his own in this bu!ine!fe; they are alike fail: m his hands, and in his Fathers hands, for he and the Father are one. 3. One in nature, and ofthis I fuppofe are the words more efpecially underftood :theFather and Sonne are both of one nature of one e!fence, ofone being; and th~s is not onely an argumen~ that they did both agree, and were ltke to agree in that great tranfacl:ion of faving fouls, ~ut that they can never difagree; two that dfentially have two wtlls, though for the prefent agreeing in one,yet they may come to difagree,and will not the fame thing . but if elfentially they have but one will, it is impoffible then but that they ever muft agree.-- So then the Father from everJailing calls the Sonne to the office of Mediatour, q. d. Comr my ~onne, the Sonne of my joy, 11nd high delight; my beloved Sonne in whom I am well-pleafed : there"; a thought in m1 heart to cGmmunic;tte my fe/f out Bf thu a/onenej[c everlafting Hnto fomewhdt e!fe; and my th011ght, or purpofe , or intention lies in thu order. Firft,I intend my own glory, then Cbrift, than the Church, 'then the world; ·thm u my providence to dijpofe every thing fo mucb more principally lind timely, by how much it is more e:t:ce/lent; next to my glory, lind the matJife.ftation of it I ~ill have .r Ghrift, and thu Chrift fha/l he the chief pvttt;rne tf the ehction of grace; alld tJext to Chrift the Head I intend a . body, and thu bod] I · will predejtinate to be made likf, cr to /;e t:onf9rmed to the im11ge of my Sonne. And now heho/4 I cal! thee to the office of .IMediatour ,: thou art my Sonne, to day ( evm in this d.!y of eternity) have I begotten thee; lind to day (even in this day· of eurnity) do I Cllll thee to thu honour to be 11n high Prir.ft for evm. And as the Father calls, fo the Sonne ~~-~~Er!~~~ng_~~~.P~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~ !~1~~ ~~ ~ ~iflgned by the ·· ~~!~~rjj, ,.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=