Of Eleflion. "'-A..Tl fe.rve that when the fame things are faid of two E1)uals , the manner is in– BooK II, dtfferently to place euher firfr, ond then the other: So here, Mme thine '~ ond Thine mme: No matter which firfr, fo the fame things be faid : 'Ti~ to fhew, they are equal. But if Cbrifr only fpake this as God-man, •in and under that confiderauon f~lely, the Father being greater than be, he would · not have ranged 11 wttb tlus equality, unlefs he had fpoken as he is a Per– fen of tbe Trinity equal with the Father, and one Gcd with the Father : Therefore it is he fpeal<s it as fecond Perfon thieily, ef_pecially if he had fpo• ken as God-man, and had Withal Intended by the L Alt things that are mit~e are thme] the Apofrles Perfons only, as fome have it: He would ra– ther have faid, A!t thme are miue, And why? Becaufe he had faid be– fore, they were firft the Fathers, And tho• gavefl them rne, f. To/Jet upon the place cofts·in this, That our Lord had fpoken afore of the Perfons ot the Apoflles, how they were thi•u, 0 Father: So in the 6rh verfe, Thme 6 Ete8io11, which is fignified in that fpeech, Thougavejlt hem me, and they were given to me as I am God-mall: Therefore here, in thefe words (fays he) Chriftafcends to urge a further and higher Intereft in them, – and in all things elfe, vsz, as he iJ God, and Coequal with the Father. And certainly, that other particular lnttreft , viz, That the perfcns of thofe A– poftles were both his and the Fathers alfo; he had before fo fufliciently expref- . 1ed both in verj. 6. and over and over again afterwards, within this fmall compafs of the words that follow, in vtrf ''· and .verj; 12, as it may well be admitted, that feme greater thing , and more entenfive, fhould in thefe words be intended. This for the fecond Branch, That by att thi11g!is not meant only all things extrinfecal, or a\10f the Per.fons of the Eled, t:!ic. but the Divine E[encc 1t felf, and the Perfections thereof, proper to God, and common to the Three l'erfons, That aJJ thefe were his, as well as the Fathers. . Thirdly, This fpeech cloth fully import, and is all one as to fay (though in a larger compafs of words) that his Father and he are two Perfons, one in Effence; or (as he himfelfafter in fewer words expreffeth it) We are one: And mark it Brethren, that very thing it is that his Praver here doth if– fue in, That thty may 6e otu M we are. For two Perfnns to have all the Perfections of the Divine Nature equally , and in common, Att thine are .mi11e, and mi11e are thine; this is all one as to fay, .That theft two Perfons are Ou• : This is fo clear, as I need not infift on't, And tru– ly Catvi1s, who is againft the interpretation oft: we are one] ro be meant of the Onenefsof the Pe,rfons, as in the Divine Nature of God throughout this Chapter; yet when he is upon this place, he confidering the waight and exTmnd"fl uni- tenfion of this word, All thiugs , bath thefe words; The Unity of the Fa– ""''"'' cum ther and the So" ss (uch, as they have tJothmg apart betwem them: Whtch ;:~:b'ft"1/(.ci' is that ve~y thing :which l fay,. thattheir being one God is exprelfed by this, divif"m b•btthat all tlungs are m a commumty therrs. ant.Calv.ioloc. 4· This iffues all the former, that it is fpoken as a Motive or l'lea; that therefore thry( the Elect ))bot~ld 6e o1te as we are: There is this afped, this true and genuine Connexion between thefe two paffsges , though (as I at firft noted ) rhere comes in a Petition between for that which was to be the means of their Union; yet thefe firft words Aflmineart thine, t:!ic. doeen<er in this grand Pttitio11,That they be o11e,a1 we; or,In them be otJe: And the reafons of this their firft connoxion ·and reference are rhefe, 1. So 'ris that that fpeech, Aflmi11e are thi11e, t:!ic. frands as a Parenthefis from. the reft of the words, whe– ther afore arid after; and are to be feparate by an inclofure from the reft. And fo Brt~gmjis reads the words, and in his Comment notes it to be fuch: T<S a Speech ftands by idelf among the reft , and fent aforehand, a good way off, expelling a Mare, • Correfpondent, it fhould yoke and clafp withal ; and thff is it, That thePefore thry m1zy 6r one, as we tll'e: And the Coherence of the words in the Verfes afore thefe words, Allmi11e are thi11e, (!)c. and of 1hofe · that
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