Of EM/ion. W be prooved, is, tlllt the intent of this fpcech is eminently to include thefe in BooK H. this place; for which ·obferve. . ~ 1. Firft, he fays univerfall y, All thi11gs; Et qui dicit om1tia,11ihit relinquir which are Auj/itls words upon ir; He rhat faith Allthmgs, leaves nothing ex: tepted. 2. He fays not, a_s in Matt. I I, 26. AIJ things are drtivered to me of my Father; but [peaks m a language md!ffercmly, approprwttng alt to himfclf and his Father; AIJ thi11gs [ are ] mi11e, as well ns the Father's: All tb 111 gs ;hat arr mzne, are thinr; et f contra. 3• That Parallel pl ace, John ·16. 15. Att thi11gs that thf Father bath ate tnmr, doth confirm the like to be the intent here; and this here compared with that fpeech there, confirms the fame to be the intent there; h~ there fays, not in an indefinite way, what the Father hatb is mi11e; but puts a double Univerfality upon it (asGerardbath obferved on the place) "'""• AO things· ~nd adds,~ [ Wbatever.J AIJ tbi11gs what{oever: Wllich doubled Ernphafts: Js left out ol our Tranflauon. If he meant not to have fa~d , that he had the Ellence, the nature of God, the Perfections of the Godhead , how thould he fay, A/Jthi11gs whatever, which mJ Father hath, and yet be underflood that there is an infinity of lhings or Perfections, which his Father bath as God, (as Eternity , Immenftty, (i)c.) which Cllrift lhould not have intended, whilft he fa id, AIJ thi11gs what{oever? Wholhalllimit thisVniver{ally V11iverfal, and except the Elfentials of the Godhead, when Chri(t, (whom we all acknowledge God) doth not except them? We fay the Father hath Om– nipoterrcy, the Father hath Eternity, lmmenfity,~c. And thefe are all Chrifl's; for what{oever the Father bath arf mitu, Surely thefe thould not be exchr• ded here; Not fb tff, who all believe that he is God , and hath all and the whole Godhead Communicated to him in the fullnefs of it; for EjJe11ti£ com– municatio facit omttia commuttia; The Godhead being Communicated by the Father, all things of the Godhead, or that can be attributed thereunto, are Communicated to all Three; only the difiinCtion of Perfons excepted. Nor is it afi Objection worth much confidering, that he faith, AIJ that the Father [bath] are mine, and therefore that he lhould mean by that word, [bath J the things only which the Father polfelfetb as external to him ; as the things which concern our Salvation, and the like,. the world, and the ft~t!nt{s of it; as a Mao is faid to haw his GoodspojfeJ!ive : But the Father is fa id, to have his own Elfence, and the perfections of it as well as the works of his Hands; the pbrafe i"s ufed of what be is elfentially; as, Who o11ly bath Immot·tatity ~c. I Tim. 6. t6o wliich is an elfential Attribute; Or as a Man is fa id to have aSoul in him: Noteing thefubftantialbeingof him. But !JlOreovcr, that which confirms this to be hisfcope, i• this, let it be fur– ther obferved in that place, Johtt 16, 15• that plainly he declares at once, both that he is God tUwe/J as his F"ther; as at{o, that he is the Second Perfon, in order 1uxt rmto his Father in the Divine Natttre, and in order afore thf Spirit; and both thefe you muft ftlppofe intended, er he had not given a fuf– ficient Keaf0n or account of that which follows. And you may obferve by the words that immediately follow in Verf, r )· Thatfore Jaid I, that he jhtJit take of mi11e, rmd jhatt jhew it tmto yort, his profelfed intent to be, to ren· d~r a full and fufficient Reafon why he had in the words ofthe r4 Verfe, im– mediately afore this '5Verfe, faid, he (the Spirit, namely )jhtJ!J gtonfie me, for he jha/J rtceive of mini!, arid jhatt jhew it to you: And farther they are an account of what he bad alfo laid inVerf r 3• fie jhalt 1101 (peak of him– Jet/; but w hatfoever hrfbatt hear (from me and my Father )that fha/1 he fpeak. Now, if he had not been truly God, and Second Perfon in the God– head, he had nor held out a full and fufficient Reafon why the Holy Spirit fhould not fpeak of himfelf, but muft have all that he fpeaks and fhews, from him, e're he can lhew <hem to us: But being Second Perfon , he could truly fay, Tho11gh the Spirit is God, aiJd the thirdPer(o1t of the three, )'et I m;; , in order of Jubjiflence, afore him, a11d I am Godtikewife with tht Father. mtdthe StcondnextPer(on to the Father; rmdthertfore he is to recnve a/J from me. Now for the firfi, That he is God, and one God with the fatb , r, . iliR
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