Of EleEiion. SECTION. i; 'Ihe fecond Motive in God's Heart' , drawn from the ' Vnion and communion of the Three Perfons in the Tri– nity, hranched into Two Patticu/ars:.The Firfl is,That their Vnion in EefJnce or their common Enjoyment of one, and the fame God-head, did move them to mak.: Creatures Parta~rs offucb an Enjoyment, as far as they could poj]ib!y be capable of it. , THis Mo-tive, drawn from the Trinity, divides itfdf into two Branches I which in themfelves are dit\inCt, and apart to be conlidered, ' • 1. '!heirOnenefJ in Efftnce; Orthatthe Father and Son aod Sp_irit, have an thetr common and blelfed Enjoyment, one and the fame God-head, and all the Perfed:ions thereof : And how this did move them to m3lte Creatures partakers of the fame Enjoyment, as far as Creatures poffibly are capable cl~ · 2. The fecond is, their mutual entercourfe and Society, as Perfons, one with another, and the fweetnefs of that converfe thofc three Perfons had a• moog themfelves ; that, Thilt alfo was an inducement, to take up Creature– fellowfhip and Communion into a participation of that fweet Society. Thefe are differeflt Notions and Conlideratiom; the firfi being founded upon the Otunt{s of the three Perfons in an One Enjoyment of that One Godhead : The other, upon their Gonverfes had between themfelves, as Perfoos lublifl· ing in that Godhead, glorifying, loving, and fpeaking to each other, from e• verlafling. The firfi of thefe Hound upon, 'John 1 7· Vtr{._ to. and 11. A11d all mint art thine, andthint are mine, and I am Glorified m them. Atul~tow 1 am 10 mort in tht World, and Icomt to thee ; holy Father, kerp through thine Own Name, tho{t whom thou hafl given me, THATTHET MAT BE ONE .AS WE ARE. In which words the grand and final Petition, and in which all the reil' of the words do center, is that fhort claufe at the clofe of Ver[. 1 1. that they may 6e ont, evm 114 'IIH art ont : But he had premitted as a foundation there– unto, (or for a fore-explanation rather,) what it was he meant io cottpre· bend in the lafl words of that petition , AJ we are otlf : And the words he premits that do fore-explain his claufe, are the firfl words of Vtr[. 10. All thit~gJ that art mi11e, are thine; a1!d thi11t, art mint: And thefe two paff:l· ges which are the firfl and !all in thofe two vtrjts, arc to be broughrtcge• ther, and more clofely connelled, as holding the nearefl intimacy, (as will appear:) But yet there is the interpolition of another petition, before this laflgrandone, that coming between keeps them two pallogesa long \\'hile afunder, and from clofing each with other; untill he flwuld finilh that other Petition; And that intervening requefl is, Holy Father, keep t htm which thotl haftJ(iVttl mt through thine own Name: And. to inpnuate that to keep themin HolitttjJ, is that which he means, he accordmgty compellates, or calls upon his Father under the Title or Attribute of H~ty Father; thereby fuitiog the Attribute to the thing prayed for, as that whtch was to be the caufe pro– per of the thing prayed for as the dfed:, and the fittefi motive thereunto; which is frequently done in Scripture prayers. Now tillS fomewhat long Pe– tition with thefe ad)acents coming between thofe two, firfl Verf. ro. and !aft . paffa~
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