Of EleEiion. R ich Argument of the Trinity of the Perfons, and their being One God; fo ~ as l fought no other Proof. And l did fingle out aod premife ihat foie proal, be- Chap. 7· callfe thepurfuitof thattruth under theihleof (Vs] dtd happily atore-hand v-v---.1 make way for, and efpecially give light unto thts l am now to profecute upon this Foundation; As we art 0 71t, At the tirrt making of Man , there was fucb a Confultation of the Perfons held; and God the Father fays to the other Two, Ltt Vs make Mm, accord– ing to ot1r Image: Wherein yet, Man's Union with God was then noway ex– pretfed or ligmhed by the Umon which thofe three Perfons had in the Godhead; either as the Motive unto·it, or as the Pattern of it. Nor was that Communi. on they held,made any Motive or Inducement to make Man; but all that's flid, is, That he lhould be made according to their Image : Whereby, whether the ' Image of the Divine Perfections in Holinefs and Righteoufnefs, or of Chrifi ; as God-man, predellinated afore all Worlds, be meant, is not material here ; but only, that a confent and confultation of the Perfons was held, to m•ke him fuch. But here we fee, that when this Supercreation Union, whereby theE· lcct were to be made One with Chrill, and fo with God his Father, and by confcqut nce with the Holy Gholl indwelling in us alfo, comes to be fpoken ofj cur Lord doth, as .n the Perfon of the fecond Perfon (which he was) as well as of Man, pray to his Father to vouchfafe a like Union unto that of their own between themfelves, and as aMotive thereunto, induceth the Onenefs them· felves had, That thtymay6e Ont in Vs, 114 We art 01Je. . And look as when theApofile would move the Saints to be One among them• (elves, endoavouringtokeeptheuni0'of the Spirit i?Jthe bond of Ptace, as Eph. 4• 3• he there inforceth his perfwafive by the Unity of the Three Per– fans in their Offices or Relations towards us, Verf f , 6, 7· There u OneGod, the B1ther of all, and Ont Lord Jejus Chrif/, There is but one that bath dommion over you all, and there is but ont Spirit, which, as the Soul in the Body, enliveneth, enforms, all and every Member. In like manner, when Chriit, in Prayer to his Father, would move him to admit and entertain u5 in• to that Onenef, with the Three Perfons themfelvcs, he urgetll it upon the u. nion and Fellow!hip thofe Perfons have among themfelves ; and it is not their h•ving agreed to take feveral Relations or Offices to us, and for our Salvati– on, wh~<hhefpecifiesanddenotatesthemby (as in that other in Ephe(.4. ) but limply their Onenefs and Communion one with another. And although the third Perion, the Spirit, is not here in this Prayer fpeci· lied ( as neither is he in ufual blelli"gs of wi!hing Grace, ~c. or Doxologies , and Glor~ bt to, ~c. but only the Fa•her and the Son) yet elfewhere ( btfides in that nf Gou(i•, Let us m.Jkt man, I have lhewed) He comes in as one of this SYprea'll [ V .r J as a third Perfon, arid that as particularly as the Son and Father h•·re ; T{'''· 6. 8. 1hMrd the voict of the Lord,faying, Whom jhalt 1 j(nd1 and who 'lbiltgo for m? T he fecond Perfon J the Son, had appeared in Glory, v tr(. 1. compared with 1ohn 12•4' · And who then i.<lhisother Per· fan that fays, Whom fha!t [ /] jrnd? who alfo is one of the [Vs,] but even the Holy Ghofi, who (as Ails q . 2.,) fends out his Minillers, es a dillinct fingle Perfoo ot himfelf: And that it was the Holy Ghol\, will be evident, if we alfo compote Ails zS. z;. And when thty agrud not among them(tlvtS, they drparttd,aftrr that Paul had (poken onr word, Well {p 1ke rhe Holy Gho{t 6y Efaias tht 'Prophtt untoottr Fathers, The Apol1le apph·ing that Spe<eh in lfaiahexprefly unto theHolyGhof\'s having uttered and fa id it.So rhen,as there in Jj,uah, thtre are but two Perfons, t)le Son and the Spirit, who are in exprefs trtennoned, end yet in that [Vs] all T nree are intended, fo here ,n 1he LWr J ~nd [V<] which Chrill fpeaks in the Language of, unto his Father, the Spirit . . IS alfo tnvolved and intended. ~~;~~;~0"· Chrifl .ufcth Yet I find C•lvin tn caution againll this Interpretation, which the ancient [''i fpccm l'athers againll lh·rtU., did fo much and fo oft b<·take themfdves unto, as a ,:]~: ,h; r,.; firong Bulw;Hk •nd f'nrtrefs, mainraining and detenrling the D eity of the fe· cood ''crfoo, cond Perfon ioOnen· fs with the Father [.uw u trt Q, e] they alfo withnl ob: %~~·.~~t .. fervmg, that Oncncfs of the Perlons m the Dtvme Eifence, to be the Pattern di<ror, · or ,
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