Of EM/ion. pan:~grs Ver[. ••· mentioned; the laf\ of them (which l call the grand PNitioo) "-.~~ th.rtrhey m -ry be One, ar Wt are 011e, at the firlt appearance feems wholly, ~P· 7· and only to joyn, or conned w1th, or belong to that long mtervemng Pct.twn.; ,-....J whcretlnto he prelixeth thiS mot1ve alfo: Arrd flOW I am 110 more i11 the World, tut rhefeare m the World, arid I come tothu. The Petition is to keep them in Holinefs; and rhat wh1Hl the:l' are m the World: Keep them 111 holurefs, 1h.1t1be;· m:ry 6e 011e tzs Wt are One: And it i~ true, thele do relate and con' nett thus together; but they do not folely 1 or only refer thus together: As if 1b.zt they may6e Oue , f!Jc. were cut off from., and had nothing at all to do withthofeorherlod!f\ant words at the begmnmg of Verj. 10. All th,rt are mzne are thme; (!le. wnereas indeed there •s the nearef\ alliance and affinity , yea,idcmity between the very laf\ l'ords,Ar we are One,with th0fe firfl words, .All mme are thme, and thiru are mt11t: Both of them are perfectly O ne and the fame in lenle and fubltance, and aplain txp!mt,ztto11 the one of the other: For, for Chrifi to Jay to his Father, All mme are thi11e, and thmt are mmr, is all one as to fay, we are One: For the firfl fignifies that there is nothing, that we have divijio11, apart, as G1tvm's word is, and muf\ therefore 6e oue; fo perfectly doth this exprefs therr Unity: When therefore Cluilt fl>all, in the clofe of this grand Petition, make this as his great gr<>und and foundation, to obtain this like Union on our parrs, both With himfelf, and his Father, und urge and plead [ a.r we are o11e] which imports both, that 6ecatl{t we are o11e; as alfo njter thr /imt!tttide of o11r 6ezng one; let them be fo: And when we,to find that declaration that went before~ and indeed fiends alone) All rnHte are thnre, andthuze mine, to be the mof\ exquifite (though in larger -.vords) de" fcription or periphrafis to fet out what and wherein the Unity of thefe twd Perfons [we) doth confi(\, then cerrainly tllat fpeech, At! mi11e ore thint, mull mof\ rationall y be conceived by us to have been in:ended and forelaid as a like ground, and plea for this our Union alfo, and withal explanatory of it: And being oQe and the fame in fubf\ance and effeel of fenfe, it muf\ be accoun– ted that Chri[\ doth, both at the beginning of this part of his Prayer, and a– gaiiJ in the clofe, enforce this for us; with a doubled repeated firength: fn the firf\, that feeing we are fo much one, that all things the one of us have; the other hath; sod thou having defigned an Onenefs 10r them with us, let them attain a participation of tilt fame; that all things thatare thus ours, may be theirs alfo together with us: And then again, that in the clofe he lhould reiterate, that they may 6t One M we are; this drives the nail home to the head a fecond time, and at laf\: And herein we may difcern our Lord his vehe– ment zeal and defires for us, to have this our Union granted and accompli!bed with his Father and himfelf; and that it lhould be fure to be fuch a Union, that is as like unto their own Union, as was poilible, in the parricipation of all things which themfclves have in common between them: And this he fl1ews, he def.reS'above all things elle wl',ich his Soul did , or indeed could defire f.· r them; which argues the depth of hislove ~nd dear affection to us : And indeed; there is nothing is, or can be above this: And you fee how exprefs he is, to fct out what he meaneth by that onmejs he Prays for, and wherein it conli<l• eth, in foexquifite a deciphering of it; namely, Verj; 10. that it WM a p,,,.. ticipatio>rof allthi11gs wrth God, m.d Chri(/; which themfelves have one with another: No lef•, than that all that is Gods, might be theirs; than which, there is not a more comprehenfive and greater bleffednefs (as to the matter of 1t ) to be conceived or imagined. You may now alfo eafily difcern the rttlfon, why he brought in that intcrpo– fecl Pe11uon; that they might be ktpt in Holinefs whilf\ they were in this World, afore he would conclude with that final grand Petition; th<~J ( fo ) they mrry 6e One, ~c. which yet was his general Aim, and Cent< r, wherein all lines afore in Vtrj. 10, and 1 r. do meet, It Was to on advantage that the bring– ing m ofthat was delayed to the laf\: H<te are two things differing, that Jte the fever.! Subjects ofthefe two fever~I Petiti<los : the Firll, is theac~om~lrjhm,nt of tJ perfeel tmtoTZ of us With Chnfi, and Go<l, to be art.uned 10 tnc fife to come: (For it is the perfection ofour Union,whichChrif\s Heart and Eye waJ intent upon in this prayer, as appears byVer(e 24.) ~nd this is tl1e la!\ Petiri- [ S2l OA,
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