Of ElefJion. This for the firll Head, what thefe [All] in generallhotild ~e ; not only tbe ~I perfons of the Apollles, or the Elect (though i~cluded in the All) but All Chap. 7• thillgs whatfoever. The fecond corratns two thmgs 10 It. . ~ 1. That [.h'/J] mi11tort thme, e§c. reacheth uriro, and principally intends the perfdhons of the Godhead it felfl AIJ thoft <JJivine Glories ilr• Mine a11dThine, and Thi11e and Mmr. . . 2. That this fpeech is fpoken by Chrill in the Perfon of himfelf, acid his Fa– .ther, confidered as they are !Wo Perfons in the Trinity ,, enjoying the fame Godhead, and not only as he 1s God-man ; (and I am for both): And unto thiS fenfe many Interpreters of weight do carry it. There hath been a Q,te!lion raifed by fome, Whether any Sentence in this Prayer be uttered by Chrill under the Notion or Conftderation of his being the fecond Petfon in the Godhead, elfentially conftdercd, and fo to fpealt any tl\ing fimply as that Perfon: Or that rather; (as they all'ert it) all that which he fpcaks of himfelf in thi• Prayer, lhould not be underllood of himfelf, as he is Man perfonally united unto God ; and fo that in that fenfe only it i~, That he as God.man, Bead of his Church, lhould fpeak this here, T_hat they ma:t be ont 44 we are 011e. And one general Argument they have, IS .th15, That o·– thrrwifo the &toll~perfoiz, a~.f11ch, fbould praY, : Unto which (ere we go ~ny further) there IS thiS eary Anfwer ; That the Mnn Jefus prays. yet as the mouth that urgel11 the Interefi of the fecohd perfori (.to \Vhom he was united) as fuch ; which is for his honour as he is God , and not a lowering of him: 'Tis the Man that prays, but 'Tis the Name ofthe Second perfon he is united unto, which he pray5 in. Indeed, for the Second Perfon, firriply as fuch, to have prayed for any thing belonging to him properly as fuch, as fome would un– derlland rhe words, Verf. 5· A11d now, 0 Fathe;, glorifie thou m~w1th thi'n~ own fe!f, with theglory which I had with thee before the World was: Thi$ inde<d had been below him: But that his interell, as he is God, lltould be ur– ged on our behalf, this is no more improper, than for us to plead wl1at is in the Name of God the Father, as God; The Lord God Gracious, e§c; For the fecotid, the Ancient Fathers in their Difputes againfi Arrius, who held Chrill riot to have bin God, or a Second perfon Co-equal with his.Father, partaking of the fame Divine Effence or Godhead with his Father; had a great recourfe unto the paffages ot this Prayer, and particularly to this, Aft min~ are thine; Verf. 1 o. Ari4 tU weore One, Vtrf.I 1. and Ver{.21. Thou jn me,Verf. 2 z., 2 ~· That therefore he~as one God with the Father in Effence, thQugli they were dillinct as Perfons in that one Godhead: One , as Go~ though as PerfomdHlind:, which is argued from his faying We and u,s. ~ hus alfo our Divines in their oppofition aga inll the Socinians, who deny Chrifi to be God; or a Second perfon in the Codhead, inake ufe of this place. Now 1 by A/J things, he means all things that are God's, whether they be ef[tntia!Jy his , (that is , all Attributes of the Godhead) as alfo all that belong Unto God by his Dominion over all, as he is God; fuch as his works ad e"tra( that is, which exill and are wrought out df himfelf, as the World, tho Salvationof Men, e§c,) whiCh are by po}Jef!ioll God's: Thefe; oi' what– ever elfe, that are God's as God, he intends here to be his, as well as they are his Fathers• . But above all' the Elferitiai Perfections of ihe Godhead. which are c as. Brugenjis on the words exprelfeth them) all tbo(e incmittdirdiwte riches and Glories of the 'Deity whatfoever, For, the Father Communicates all and the whole of himfelf unto the Son ; giving him by his Eternjl Generation of him, the fulnefs of the Deity; and fo the fenfe is, [ A'IJmin; J that is, wha>· ever elfential Cilorv or Perfection , whatever BleifedJ}d"s, ~c. is in Thee, is in me; for we arr One and Coequal in refpecrof-"Elfence ; and of all the fame Divine Perfedions of the Godliead; though as Perfons, a.nd in our relation as fuch, we are dil\;ncl:, ( Perfonal,properties being netefi'arily here to. b~ eii;; cepted ) For he fays, [We] areOne, and fo fuppofcth two Perfons dillmd:, wh•les yet he r.,ith that they are One, or but in all things elfe ·they are One. Now this, all of us that believe the Trinity; do hold : But diat \9hich is tr;i b'e
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