Of EleEiion. There are Four things incumbent on me to Explain, in order to demonltrate ~ thisto have been the true and natural Scope. Chap. 7. ~ I. What lhould be the extent of the [ AIJ] mine are thine, and thine are mine: That 1s, what that [AIJ] lhould be; and what it reacheth.to? And whether it be to be limited to the Perfons of the Apofiles ; of whom he had faid atore, they artthmt, in the words afore; and in the words after, I am glnnfted i11 them : Thus fame, efpecially the Sociniant, would have it, fo to cur offthe Argument from thence,that Chrilt is God; becaufe all things the Fa. ther hath are h1s. 11. Since that Speech ofhis' is fpoken of his Father, and ofHimfelf; and Himfelf therein col'llidered as the Second Perfon,as well as that he is God-man, and fo of them as limp!y tlley ~re Perlons in the God-head ; though not on Ch~ilt's part, as he is God-man, is alfo intended, and to be taken in : Now :tisto be Queried, whether 'the intent of this .AOthings,l§c. reaqh unto the pc fedions of the DiVine Nature it felf: For fo I do include both, the one con– lid ration ofthem, as well as the other. Hr. That this Speech, .AIJmine, We. •cloth moll expreffively fet forth; yea, is all one in fubfiance with what he clofeth this part of his Prayer, with Verj; r r. A t we art o11e: And is all one in effed as to have faid, htrtin conji(ls our 01ttnefs, that aO mineuthme, and thine mitte; according to thelimilitude of whic.h,let them be one with us alfo. IV: How putting thus all tbefe thingstogether, there fuould be aMotive• Plea, and an Argument arife up in it, That God the Father, and God the Son, (as two Perfons) being One in the enjoyment of the Divine Nature, and all things belonging to them ; that therefore he lhould have ordained, and ac– cordingly lhould be moved now to grantthat thefe his Eled lhould be One, as they are; and admrt them uato this communication ofall things alfo: And wherein that Motive lhould lie. T hefe Four things are pundual to the Point in hand, and muft all four necet– farily concur to the demonftration ofit. As to the firfi, there is fame appearance, and that entertained by many ln– terpreters; that he having ju!l afore faid, I prf!Y for aiJ thofe thotl haftgivm me,for tkey are thine; and after in the next words, that follow in the fame Verf. 10 . Jamglorified zn thtm, (and in both thefe meaning, and intending, the Perfons of his Apofilcs) that therefore in thefe words, that come between his foie, or nt lealt primary intent, lhould be, only to plead that all the Per– fans that are mine ( througl1 thy gifi, Verf. 6.) are thine, and thine are mine : And that therefore we,Oh Father, being both my mutual intereft, and confent, ingaged to thefe perfoos, as ours alike; therefore Cave, keep them, and make them one with us , as it follows, Verf. 12, And thus unto the Perfons ofthe Apoltles, whom he prays for, do fame Interpreters wholly, and ftrictly limit · the words, and the Socinia11s efpecially: The [ AIJ] here being to be limited ( fay they) unto the Subjed he was fpeaking of, which were the Perfons of the Apoltles: And by this their limitation of it, they utterly exclude and cut off all qr any thing elfe belonging to the God-head in common, as no way here in– tended. But I would and do take in all, both the Perfons?ftheApoltles, and all t~mgselfe, the perfons, as the Subjed prayed for; mvolving and flrength– n~ng hts Motrve: For in that they were mutually, and alike his Fathers, and ht',, and for one anothers fakes ; and then all rhmgs I take in, os the thrngs for '"h1ch he proyed, for them to be made partakers of, with the Father, and the Son ; and alfo as the ground of the Petition: And thus compounded both fen· fes will ft and, and be involved, · You
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