.Of E/eElion. ~ or Exemplar of our Union, But Calvtn , although he takes notice of this Ar– BooK 11. gument of the Ancients, yet runs Counter ; and affirms , That whenever in ~this Chapter, Chrifl fpeaks of his bein1; One with his Fat~er, he fpeaks not q~,::;,;•;;"" limply of the Divine Effence (or his being One with the Father in refped of fi"m P"" :f!e that Effence) but (peaks it only a• he is God-man and Mediatour. But Gr– ;;,!::::!:"· rard ~e~ein doth rightly oppofe him, arguing from that Parallel fpeech of Cbcii1",[ermo· Chnfl s 10 {bap. to. verf 30. I and my Father are One : whtch bemg taken "'"'" haleri withChrifl'sownlnterpretationof ir, Ver[t 3S. Thr Father i& in me, and I ~7:.~~·:~};,/:r- it1 th• F.1ther; (both which arejufl the fame Speeches that Chrifl ufeth of {tncia,(cd "''m his Union and the Fathers here) Now, there (fays he) we mull underfiand ~;'";:,~;!,~!:,:it of the Onenefs he had with his Fath_er as qod, and fo as limply contidered, a " 1 ,..,.,,., ,.. Perfon that was God : And that was tt,the Jews quarrelled his fpeech for, that P" noflr<cm He 6ei11g a Mm;, made h11nJe!f God, Verfe B· Calv in w rf. 21. jolm 17• But I fi1all compound this Difference, and yield unto Calvin thus far , that Chrifi herein prays, both as he is Mediatour and Man, and alfo in the Name and Interefi of himfelf, as fecond Perfon, as in many other Palfages he fpeaks· and there is no abfurdity in comprehending both, whilfi both Interefis conduc~ qnd are pleadable to obtain the fame thing, May not any one , who hath two Interefis or Perfonal Conditions, whereupon to pray for one Individual, ufe Arguments from both? There is no contradiction in fo doing: As for a Prince to pray as a·King, for his Subjeds, and as a Man and a Chrifiian, upon a com– mon account; and to urge Motives from either; And if two fuch pleas may agreeably and fuitably meet in and under one expreffion tbat will ccmprehend both, who lhall except againfi this? Efpecially, when the one of them is the foundation of the other. The truth is, Chrifl bath a double Onenefs with his Father; the firfl and original Onenefs, as he is fecond Pcrfon, one God with his Father; and this is the Soveraign, Effential, and Supream Rnnk of One– nelfes which is proper to the Trinity, it is the Onenefs of the jirfl Thru lim– ply and alone conlidered amongfi tbernfelves. But fecondly, there being nn admiffion and~ifumption of the Man Jefus (who fpake this) into a Perfonal .Union with the Son of God, the fecond Perfon, he thereby is become free of the [VS] or of the Company of the Perfons, and one with them: In re– fped of which Union, the Man Jefus, might and cloth fay , as on our behalf, Lrtthem 6t o11e withut, M I am with thtt, 0 Father: And this Union is a lower Union than the firfi , and the firfl is tbe original and the ground of this: And when one Interefi is the ground and original of another, we !llay very well underfland both to be comprehended in fuch a fpeech, but yet eJpecially that whieh is the original one; for it is in the venue of that, that the feconda– ry and derived one comes to have its Exiltence: And therefore his being One with God, as fecond Perfon, is chiefly to be attended in the faying, That they ma' be o11e, M we are one, f!ic. Look then, as in the forecited place, .fohn 10. Jo. he fays, I and my Fu– ther are one, he there fpea·ks both as fecond Perfon, and that in that refped he is own in Power, Wtll, C!ic. with God his Father (for in refpelt of equal power it is, he fpeaks it, as the former.fpeeches, in verj.18.and 29.do !hew:) the fame holds true in all other eiiential Attributes of the Godhead, that as 1uch, he is one with the Father in them (which is the primary and funda· mental Onenefs) and yet withal, we mufi take in the Man Jefus, who be– ing one Perfon with that fecond Perfon, (who was thus one God wirh his father) rhat he alfo in a true. fenfe fpeaks it, as appears by his own Ex– planation of that former tpeech: Say ) 'e, Thou /;lajphemefl, ltcm1{f I {aid 1 am the So1J of God? and fo one in Effence with God : And then, verf. 37· and 38. If I do 11ot the w•rh of my Father, believe me not: but if I do, thottgh ye 6tlievt 1101 nu, 6tlievt the w_orlu; tha~ )'e may know a11d 6e~ lieve that the Father u m 1JZe, a11d I m htm: whtch he fpeaks as God– man , as well as fccond Perfon; for he refers himfelf as to the Evidence of this, That h• wa> iiJ th• Father, and the Father in him: (which is all one, and to be One with God, as verfe 5o.) unto the works put forth Vt· tibly
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