Of the l(rJoJ)?[edg of (jod the Father, ~ compatible to them, as if they had a Glory with God afore the World was; no Bo 0 1' lll. it was peculiar to Chrilt: and the reafon ofthe D1fferente IS evtdem, becaufc the ~ Perfon then exif\ing aCl:ually (as Men and Angels did not) might well undertake and bear this Perfon apart, as in the Old Teftament, de faao, he did before he was incarnate. So befides, the eflemial Glory as fecond Perfon ·(which he there lf'eaks not of) he had the Honour, Repute, Renown and Glory with God,as the Mediator and Saviour of his Church, which now in his Prayer the Human Na– ture challengcth to be belt9wed upon him as his antient Inveltmcnt and Endow– ment, the fecond Per\on having before the World was, by an Agreement and Cornplot with his Father, undertaken to affume Human Nature, and all that while bearing, and ft1ltaining, and aCl:ing that Perfon his Father did, as between themfclves, .repute and converfe with him, as fuch; and gave him reputatively a Glory, a Name between themfelves, correfpondent to that Glory; which now (when God-Man glorified in Heaven) he aCl:ually bath b~ltowed upon him;which is thus expreffed by him [the Glory which I had with1hee] which yet had been his due, aCl:ually to have received, from ·the fir(("Moment of his affumiog Human Nature, but he had laid it down both before God and Men; taking the form ofa Servant, and becoming"ofno Rep11tation, (as it is Phi/.2.7.) neither with God,fo far as God's outward Dilpenlation held forth; nor with Men,during the Time of his Humiliation; during which, he had given up even that Glory, in the refpeCl he had had with God before the World was. Hence therefore, he having fini!hed that vVork of Humiliation for Man's Sin, (which was but part ofthe Work,which as God-Man he was to do by the way, whilll in the World) he now defires God .to give him aCl:ually and vifibly, before Saints and Angels, that Glory, and caufe it to break forth in that Human N3ture he had affumed, which reputatively be– tween themfelves he had given him before the World was, when he had under– taken it, and bare that Perfon of God-Man, which Glory was but his due Inhe– ritance, whenever he fhould take oqr Nature. And this I truly take to be the genuine Senfe, and fairelt meaning that can be given of thefe Words of Chrill, Joh. 17. 5· Now, 0 Father, dothouglorifj me with thine own jiff, with the Glor1 which I had with thee before the World w.u. Namely, that which then he had in real repute, in Relation upon his bearing that Perlon, before God, which now he ·had aflumed, and now feeks to have actually and vifibly beltowed up– on that Nature, which he had according to his ancient undertaking afiu– med. It is well known unto ~hofe who have met with that ~el!ion,Whether Chrill·, as a Redeemer, was the firfi intended in God's Decrees, or whether confidered as Man limply, in order to other glorious Ends, were not the Primitive great Decree, which bath been agitated both by Papilt and Protefiant Writers; it is well known, I fay, that thole which are for the latter, do infill, and urge much, that ofProverbs 8. Where Wifclom, that is Chrilt, for fo Chrilt expreOy takes it on himft:lf, in thole Words fpoken ofhimlelf, by himfelf, Wifdom is juftifiedby berGi!dren, Prov.8.o2,23,24,25,26,o7,>8,29,30,3I. 'Ihe Lord poj(ejjed ·me in I he beginning ofhis w,l)', before his Worlv of old. I WtU Jet up from ever– lofting, from the beginning, or ever the Earth w.u. When there was no Depths, 1 >VR< brought forth : whetz there were 110 Fountaim abo11nding with Water. Before the Mountains were Jetled; before lhe Hills WM I bro11ght forth: While M yet he hod 1101 mdde tbe Edrth, nor the Fields, nor the highejl part of the Duft of the World. When he prepared the Heavens, I w.u there; ·when he Jet a Compaft upon the Face of tbe D,ptb : When he ejlab!ijhed the Cl011ds above; when he ftrengthned the Foun· I aim ofthe Deep: Whm he gave to the Sea his Decree, that the Waters jhould not pafhi< Commandment: when he appointed the Foundations of the Earth: Thm lwa< by[,;,.,, tU one brought 11p with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always be– fore hiiJJ: Rejoicing in the habitable pdrt of his Earth, and my Delights were with the Soll1 "fMen. Thcfe things (lay they) cannot be underltood of Chrilt limply, as Second Pcrfon, or as a Redeemer. r. Nor "s Redeemer, which fuppofed this World firfr to be decreed to be Made, and Man to be Created, yea and Fallen ; but as God-Man, and confide– red as fuch, as fubfcrvient to other Ends ofGod, as well as Redemption, in the utmolt
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