A SERMON on his Son and he begat him: He woes him, as he was his Son to take it upon him . He calls him indeed, and fP.caks as1f he meant not to be denied. In tho higndt Language of a Father he uleth h1• mtereft wuh lum, memioneth the deepclt ob– ligation ; and he notes out the nme, it was l11s b:nl1 day. This day have I be– got I m thee; As Parents ohen ded;cate their Children when firft born, to fuch or fucb a Calling, as Ham1ah did Samuel to the Priefthood, fo doth God his Son. yea, he laies his command on him, John to. 18. though the other mentions th~ moft commanding argument and relation of all other. All obedience and autho– rity is held forth in fuch a fpeech; Yea, and yet to fhew more vebemency and earneftnefs, . He addsanOathtoit. Hefwore he ihould be a Prieft, Heb.7. 21. and when he has done records it; It is writtm of mr, and that ;, "'""'Jl 7; ll,,,;,, m thefirft Page of the Book of his Decrees; Yea, and puts his Seal t~ ir, Him bath Godthe Father Sealed, .'fohn6. '7· God rhe Father you fee is wil– ling and fully willing; bath done all that lies in him, and yet no more than w~s neceffarily required to this work, as was in part before, and may 'be further ob– ferved but of Heb. to. 10. wherein b.e fays, We art J'anfl1jied through thic will throtlgh the ojf'ering of the Body of Chri~; having reference to this Will ot ea!: ling bim here in the Text, without which Chrift's Offering had not been fatis– fadory nor of force to Saodify. Now, Then the Second thing remains, how the motion takes with Chri!l, which his Father makes to him, which was as neceffary as the Former : For be– fides that it could not have been forced on him. For Jobit 5· 26, The Father had given him ltfe i11 himfetj~ and fo to have power over his !Jfe, .7uh1J 1 o. 18. I h;wt power over my life, and 11011e can take itfrom me ; I fay belides that if it com~not offfreely, it had not been f~tisfadory: Satisfaflio ejl redditiovoltJII– taria. Our difobedience was free, fo muft his fatisfadion be, .Afree will Ojje– ri11g of htmj'tlf; God !lands more upon the Will than the Deed: as a kindnefs is fpoiled in the doing if it be unwillingly done,fo would his fatisfaCl:ion be : This therefore is another difficulty, and but that his Father !lruck in fo, likely to have been greater than the former. Though he had at !aft yielded, yet if he !licks at it,we are undone, if he makes but one objedion, we periih. And is it not infi– njte Love , that he fl10uld not, being the party to undergo fo rquch de– b.afemeni? How did the Eldeft Sons !lomach rite, when but the fatted Cal~was l<ill'd for the Prodigal? But he the Eldeft only begotten Son muft Sacrifice him– felf, (Worlds would not fcrve whereof he could have created enough,) for ene– mies : But not a thought arofe contr<1ry to his Fathers Will. So his own words in the Text fhew, Lo I come to do thy wilt 0 Ood; The Pfalm out of which the words at.e borrowed, Pfal. 40. 8. bath it, I delight to do thy wilt, · as the Stm rejoyceth to rtm hi< ract, fo the Sun of R,ighteott{iufs, for he wM anoi;lted 'iltith ·the Oy/ o[ <~ladtufs above hufeltows;Pja1.4o·7· As glad as ever he was to eat his meat, }olm+ l4· W1th defire have I dejired it, yea, a11d lo11g'd M much pai11,M ever Womcm with Child lo11g'd to be delzvered, Luke 12. )O. It was well for us that his Father !lruck in thus firongly in the bulinefs it fe!F. You know how unwelcome it muft needs be to him; Father if it bepo!Jible. But y~t becaufe it was his Will he fubmits, Not my wi/J btttthiue be dolie; As it was his Fathers Will he had no reludancy: Neither would limply, all our cries or rbediations have ever moved him,nomore than ftraws could have moved aMoun– tain ; But that it was his Fathers Will it was enough: For, be!ides thar, JuhiJ 1 o. 30. I, a11dmy Father are one; and fo have one will, and agree in one, but efpe– cially feeing he intreats him: The Father refolves to hear hm1 mall things, and iliould not his Father? Efpecially when he requeft is made upon his birth day,the Thh day have I bef!,ottm thee. When all requefts ufe to be granted, as Herod, to the half of my Kingdom. What? And as he was his Father and he his Son, t his overcame him, JobtJ. 10. '7· r8. Though he had life in his own hand, Tet, fays be, I laid it down becatt/e the Father loves me; furely if he be fo earnefi he could not deny him, etpecially when he added a command to it. This is the Rea– fen helikewifegives, john ro, 18, 19. I have powerlol<~)' downmyltje, and this command b,tve I received of my Father, His Father had power, (as other Fathers have,) to difpofc of the calling of his Son. And thou~ll he was fo great as
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