Of Eleflion, tbat he fignities and exprcileth by this, that all things his Father hath, are~ his (which is, what I have argued to the fame purpofe) And that he is the Chap. 7· Sec~nd Perfon of the Godhead in order, alfo, he declares by the fame words~ alfo, All whatever the Father hath are mine; Take them as they are a Reafon that the Spirit muft receive all from him nrft f!!c. for they are mine, and mine all, m order firft; and fo of neceiiity, the Spmt muft have all from me , as well as from the Father, And otherwife his accompt had been weakned by this, that the-Spirit,elfe might have had all. from the Father withou I him : For this is an affured Rule, that look in what order the Perfons are in fub!ifting and dependence each of other for their perfonal fub!i!lence in the Godhead; in the fame order, they do depend upon each other for their Operations alfo , as they do for their fubfillence; The Son's Subfi!lence, or his be,ng God , is from the Father, who is the Fountain of the Deity; and his Son is very God of very God; and thereupon his Operations, as the Son, do depend upon what his Father fir!\ doth, aod that he cloth nothing but what he fees the Father do, and the Father !hews it him. Jolm 5. 19, 20. Verily, vtrily, I far unto you, The J'on cmJ do nothing ofhimfolf, but what be frrth the Father do : For what thi11gs {oever he dotb, theft aljo tloth the .Son ltluwife. For the Father lovttb the So11, a11d jheweth h1m all thmgs that himfolf tloJh. And as elfewhere, I Jpeak 11ot of my jelf, (faith he) but the Father that dwtlieth m me, he doth tht works, John I 4· IO, and Chap. 8. 2 &. And what is the reafon of this dependence in doing and fpeaking, but his being God, of and from the Father? Whereby it is (as the words have it) T hat sO that the Father bath is mine. Now look, as his Perton bath all in order firft from the Father; and therefore it i1 he cannot fpeak any rhing ofhimfelf,nordo any thing ofhimfelf,but only what theFather llieweth him;asyou heard himfelffpeak ofhimfe!f: In like manner, and upon t \1e fame ground,the Spirit muft have all from him too,as he hath from the Father.!t is not fufficient,that theSpirit proceeds from theFather,as he is faid to do, John, 'i• 26. that therefore he lhould have all wholly fro~ the Father,and !he':" it eo you, andpafsbytheSon of God: No, fatth Chnft, he mull: have 1t from me too; becaufe the order of our fubti!l:ing in the Godhead, is, That all the Father bath, is mine lir!l:, in order of Nature: For; my Generation by the Father, as his Son; is lirjl, e're the Holy Ghoft's Proceiiion; for he is the third Perfon ; ·and then , all that the Father bath , being Communicated to me, thence it is, that the Spirit proceeds from both. For even that power to breathe forth the Spirit, together with the Father, is one of thofe things intended, when he faith, AD that my Father harh u mine. So as it is the account of the Order of their Subtillence, as the Foundation of this their Order io working, which he aims at in laying, Ail that my Father hath is mille, as well as to !hew he is God : And that therefore neceffarily the Spirit muft take of mine , fince it is I that fetid him a• well as my Fa• ther. This he had faid afore; verjt 6. of that I 6th Chapter: And it is as if he had faid, This I had oot power to do, nor ought to have taken upon me to fay or do, unlefs I were God with the Father; for the Holy Ghoft is God; and were I not God as well as the Father, and that the Spirit pro- · ceeded from me, I, as meerly Mediatour, could not have fent him. If then this Parallel Speech in Chap. 16, ver{t '>· imports, That all things in the Godhead were his with the Father·, as a Perfon that was God with him; why fhould we not, yea, how dare we but under!land it of the fame in this Prayer alfo? For , the one comes in as a part of his Doctrine, in a Sermon ju!l: preceeding afore his Prayer , and this follows after in the Prayer, This, for the Confirmation of this Senfe from Joh1l 16. 15. 4· A fourth Argument, from the manner of this Speech in .1obn17. 10, i~, That Chri!l fpeaks in terms of Equality with his Father, All mme are thine, and thilte mine; that is mutually and equally and al,ke; and therefore 'tis fpoken of him as God, and a Perfon in the Godhead. Yea, lo, he fays not only, All mine are thine; but he fays, Via vrrfa, on the other tide, All tbi11e are mine: It is aft~r the manner of Equals among men; you may ob. [TJ fervc
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