12 Of the K....norP!edg of (jod the Father, ~ with~he Father, and the Man being made one Perfon with the ~on, fptaks this Bo 0 J< I. of himfelf; Co thereby evidently declaring, that in th~ Godhead there was the ~ Perfon of the Son diflinfr from the Father; and fo, m h1s Defence of h1mltlf, he declares, Verf36. Say ye of him whom the Father bath fon{}ifed and fent into the World, Tho1t blaJPhemeft; becaufe l foid,I an> the Son of God? And agam, Verf 38. Know and belreve, that I am 1n the Father, and the Father 1n me; as two fhll, (as [I J and the [Father J imports) enjoying one Godhead: And elfewhere, he I profefleth his Manhood not to be alone the Perfon. And 1t was not God the Father that was incarnate, and in 1hat refpefr is fliled the Son, as fame have wickedly affirmed; for if the Father had been one Perfon with this Man, this Man could not have faid, 1and the Father; or elfewhere often [I] and [Tho11], fpeaking to his Father. · And indeed, I have judged one great End and Iffue of God's ordaining this Perfonal Union of the Man Jefus,_and the Son of God, to have been, to de– monfl:rate and afcertain us, That there is this difl:infrion of Perfons in the God– head ; in that the Man now affnmed, talks at that rate of himfelf, as of a Per– fan with God, and yet diflinfr from his Father ; and that he was fo, he refers unto all his Works, to believe and know it by; for that, whilfl: be fo fpake of himlelf, he fhould do fuch Works; This invincibly argues the Trmh of what he fo fpake, as in that, John 10. in defence of himfelf, and thofe Speeches of himlelf, verf 37, 38. he argues, If I do not the Wor/zs of my Father, believe me not : B11t if 1do, though ye believe not me, believe the Wor/zs; that ye may k._now and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. Had the Scripture declared this difl:incbon of Perfons over and over, in a Doil:rinal Affertion, it had not been fo great an evidence as this; to hear the Man, who when become one Per– fan with the Son of God, fhould himfelf !l:ill ufe to fay, [ l J and my Father 5 and when he fpeaks to his Father, to fay, 1and Tho11. Himlelf came by this Go-· gular Way and Means, to declare it fo invincibly, as nothing could have been more fatisfyingly done. That I may fay, as the Apofl:Ie to the Hebrews dotb of other Revelations of Divine Truth, fo I of this, That after God had, at fundry times and divers manners, fpoke this Myfl:ery of t)le Difl:infrion of Perfons, he bath now fpoke it to us by the Son himfelf perfonally, as now incarnate and made Man : Who though he appeared to the Fathers, yet never perfonally uni– ted to thofe Appearances as now he did. So that put but thefe things toge– ther; 1. That he that was the Son of God, exifl:ed before the affumption of Man's Nature, as a Perfon. · And that, 2. The Man he took up, was not a Perfon of himfelf, but it was the Son that was the Pcrfon taking up that Man into One [I J or perfonality with himfelf; which that Speech of his own, when he came into the World, ( Heb. 10. 5.-.ABody haflthou prepared me) evidently !hews. The Body, or his Humane Nature, was not the [ Me J or Perfon, but he that affumes it was the [ Me ], A Body haft thou prepared Me. And then, 3· That hence he fhould then fpeak unto the Father, as a Perfon difl:inet from the Father's Perfon, as thole their words [ Me J and [Thou J do evince. And that He, even after the Man fo affumed; that he fhould !peak as the Perfon when once fo united, in the Language of Thine and Mine, 1 and Thou, and the like : This invincibly argues what I have driven at, viz. That the Father and he are difl:infr. And then, that he fhould fpeak of [Another J or third, difl:infr from both; [Another Comforter J the Holy Spirit ; And he fhallta4e of mine, &c. ]ohn r6. I 5· .whilfl: himfelf fays, I the Son, and therefore aliiH, or Another from both Father and Spirit, and not aliiH, or anotler, by havi11g become Man; but as Fili111 Dei, in whofe Perfon the Man fpeaks it of himfelf. Vfe 1. Is to exhort you to retain and hold t1fl: this plain and fundamental Truth, and by Faith to receive it, (if you have been diverted from it) as from the Son, and not confult with Reafon in it, which yet is not comradil:l:ory to it. This I am fure of, that if. the Scriptures fpeak any thing, they fpeak this great Truth ; and of all other, 1t bath been the moll: and longefl: tried, of any other.
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