144 Of the l(norvled..g of (jod the Father, ~ him predeflinate.. For, it was the natural Rig,ht ofthe Perfon fo ordained, and ~ could not be dented htm; nor the Glory of It m the Executton be fufpendcd,but witlt his own Confent: and that Sufpenfion but for a Time. And, 2dly, Furthermore, God knew whnt he did, whiH'c he was predeftina– ting of him, and foref.1w that this Right muft be the natural Concomitant of his being God-Man: And God in his fingle knowledg ofVifion (as we call it) had the Draught and Model of all, in his Divine Underftanding and View, 'ere ever his Will did fet his Fiat, or Purpofe, to any thing that was decreed. And among others of his infinitely vafi Defigns, he had the intuition of Chrifi as God– Mail, as one great One: Yea, and ofall other fo eminent, as that, if his Will would decree him at all, this high Endfhip (I have fpoken of) of all Things was to be his Right, and a neceflary Concurrent and Confequent of fuch his be– ing predefiinated. And therefore, certainly, the Divine Counfel of his Will, did from the firfi, cafi and contrive all Things elfe he did or fhould Jecree, in fuch a manner as to be for his Chrifi, and his Glory; as well as God did contrive all fhould be for his own Glory, as he is God; and both with one and the fame A{l from the firf'c. So that, let Men fay, what they in their Vanity imagine of Chrill:, as God-Man,his being decreed afore the Decree ofthe Fall,or after; they rnufi all yet acknowledg this for a fix'd Center and Conclufion, That God afore·hand forefeeing him and all Things in the Idea's of his fimple Intelligence, did form all for him as their Supream End, then whenever his Will decreed him. Ifindeed we could fuppole, That the Ideaof Chrill:, God-Man, had been out of his Eye, and the view of his Forc-knowledg, or fimple Intelligence ; we might then have only fuppofed, many things or all things might have been ordained, and Chrif'c not as yet ordained ; and Chrif'c himfelf to have been decreed for them, and not them for him at firf'c: But it could not be fo here in Chrif'c's cafe. For, feeing God forefaw that whenever he was decreed, it is He muf'c be de-· creed the End ofthem all, and Heir ofthem all. Therefore he was firf'c thought ofand decreed ; for fo the End necelfarily is to be : Iftherefore, when he is to be predef'cinated, he is to be predef\inated this End ofall Things, then it mu!'t be that he is firf'c predef'cinated. Yea, we fay further, That when our All-wife, Great, and Soveraign God, did fet himfelf to ordain any Thing at all, he did contrive and frame his Ordination about them, fuch as might tend to Chrif'c's Glory, and his Own; and bnd the like Refpea and Eye unto the Concernmems ofhis Chrif'c,as God– Man, in his, as he had to his own Concernmems, as God. P ifF The third Particular Motive, is drawn from Chrif'c's Interef'c, having been firf'c t,,,:, ; :z; fet up as God-Man in God's Elea ion. Job. 17. 22• .And the Glory whicb tho" 1Y~rdt. gaveft me, 1have given them : that they may be One, even a.J we are One. Firf'c, For the Expofition, then, wherein the force ofthe Plea lies. Here he further pleads, that they were not only ordained for the Glory ofhim, as in verf ro. but that he himfelfbeing ordained God-Man in Predef'cination, he had asGod-Man joined with the Father as the free Doner, and Ordainer ofthem unto that Glory, and perfea Union, as well as his Father: Or, if you will, in our Familiar Language, our Glory was a Deed of Gift, and his Hand was to that Deed of Gift, which was to make over Glory unto us, as well as his Fa– ther's: Our Glory was his free Deed ofGift,as was the Father's. And therefore, he muf'c needs be deeply intcref'ced to claim it for us of his Father; and bath from thence an undeniable Plea to move him to gram it: and fo the Story and Series of Eiea ion-Defigns ofChrifi and us, begun at the 5th Verle, runs fairly into the 2 2d Verfe : In this Order, 1. God the Father, in Predellination, gave him that perfonal Glory ofbeing God-Man ; which the Second Perfon conde– fc-ending to take on him, he bore it afore his Father as God-Man, afore theWorld "'""• thisverj 5· T hen, 2. His Father did withal give him his Elea to be He, verf6. & c. And, 3· Did alfo Ordain and Subordinate them for Chrifl's Glory, as the End of them, as well as hisOwn, vflf ro. And now, 4· In this 22d Verfe, God having given him that high and Soveraign Glory, fingly for himfelf alone; and given it abfolutely without Terms and Conditions, to him; (as the Nature
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