~ BooK 11. ~ Of Eleflion. CHAP. vu. The Onenefl and Intimacy ofCommunion which theFa~her; , \ and Son, aud Holy Ghoft, bad ar1d have amongft 'tl.tem– ~- .. Je~ves, WM an Original and Primordial Moth•e of God's Ordaining tH unto Vnion and Communicm with himfelf. I T is an ancient and renounced faying of Nazianzm, Bomtm ttnilatis a Trilutate originem d11cit: That this good bleliing of Unity draws and derives itsRife andOriginal from the !rinity;that three Perfons fubfifling, and being Onem the God-head, was the Foundation and Original lnduccm en~ for the Union of a Creatu~e with God, or of Perfons of an Intelligent Naturt, who only were capable of tt. And that which hath induced me to take this, as a Motive, and not as a bare Exemplar and Sampler of it, is the lnmlcation and Rezterated mention by Chrifi, of his , and his Fathers Onenefs, fo oft and fo many ways, in this lhort Prayer. You find it firft in Verj. 11. Thatthe7 may be 011e M we art: And again, Ver[.21, Thattheya/lmaybt01te, M thou Father art in me, mtd I mthu; that they a!Jo may bt 011e ;, m. AndVerf. 22. That tht)' may 6e 011e M we are 011e. And then •gain, Verj.' 2~. 1111 them, and thou mme; Th,tt theJ' may bt m~de perfeH i11 One. Thefefo many repested Indigitations, with fo much urgency, in thislaft fhort Prayer, I know not how to under– fiand them to be only explanations of what kind of Union he meant; (which I intimated before, was yet meant )Or that only their Union was the Pattern or Exemplar of ours, (to which , many interpreters do only carry it;) Nor it is only to lhew the order and defoent of our Unwn, as that firfi, the F.>ther u jn Chr1{1; which Union of them is the fupream R.ank of Union; and then, Chrifi in tU is a lower and inferiour, All thefe, I confefs, are intended, and as fuch, intended, and are high Infirudions and Dodrinal Truths, to be ob– ferved by us, concerning this Union, from this his fo praying about it. 13ut he uttering them to his Father, Prayer· Wife, or in a way of Pe~ition andSup– plication, to obtain this Union for us; I cannot but withal confider them in– tended alfo as Arguments and Grounds to move him thereunto, as well as any other, And the refl of the paffages, are generally fo under!lood. And there is one word inVtr[. 21 . Thrll they [ alfo] "'·'Y be one 111 tes; This word [ alfo] bath more in it than what isin Ver[. 11. [As] We are Onr: Or than that it lhould barely be to.fignifie, that by way of exemplar or fimilitude only, they •lhould be One,but it fun her fpe•ks an J,tducemelll tomGve his Father to grant it, becaufe he and his Father were Ont; that therefore [ alfo J let them be Ont iu us. Which is as if he had faid, thou knoweft what an intire intimacy of Union hath bin between us, Tbo11 tn mt, and I i1J tha; and how fweet it bath bin untous : I enjoy it, and thou art and haft bin int imately delight<'d in it : Farther (fays he) be moved to let thefc [ alfo] have the like particip ation of iti111ts, and with"'· That each of the Perfons in the Trinity do fpe•k One of, and to the other, · in this Language of [ '"' ] and [We;] aod withal, that their being [ One Jin Eflence, or in the God head, though Perfons d,fiind therein, is fignitied PUt ol the thereby, I have in a foregoing difcnurfe tuverfed the Scnptures to demon– ~~~w!~~~· of !Irate; beginning at Mofes, 1 Gm. L~tusmake Man, and earned 11 on through– Chdn.Book 1, out unto thts very fpeech ,of Chnfl s m thiS Pr~) er ; and found that olone, C!!•p. ,, with other fuch Scriptures as fall in wrth tt, to rlluftrate 11, to be a full and J\.1ch
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