Of Elef1ion. W their meafurt unto U5, All ours is thine, 0 God, and all thine is ou rs ; A11d BooK ll. ma~ Jay the tzke to me the So11; I am heir of Thee 0 F,uh.r, f or I am thy ~Son, a11d to inherit all things in thee; attd let them be hetr.r of God, mtd of tJtt of God, with me, Co-heirs with me : As Rem. 8. 17. bath it. . And this plea of his as Second Perfon for u~, lhews the bottom Coun– fel of the Heart of God. among the Holy Three from Everlafiiog : When that bleiTed and Sacrati/]imUJ Cofl[ejJm Tri11itatu was held, that mofi Sa– cred fitting of the Trinity, as Gerard fpeaks on Job. 16, 14, 15. T hat Co 11 ci/Jum Trinitatid, as Rottoc on the fame place : Then it was this mo– tion on our behalf. ~as made amongfi \hem, which the Son here expref– feth ; and the Ortgmal ground of that Motion, was the Communion the Three Perfons do hold in that One God-bead : TherfOre they defi gned to communicate the fame to thofe they loved , and foreknew, and were then a chufiog unto an Umon with them, And this the Second, or Middle Per– fen, God's Counfellor, AngeltM mag11i Co11czlii (as the Sep11;,,gi11t ren– ders it, lfaiah 9· 6. ) He knowing his Fathers Councels, utters it here in J ohll 17. through the mouth of the Man, who was now beccme One Per– fen with him ; his part being now' in a way of prayer to move his Fa– ther, he reminds him of the Original ground thereof : And He cloth it to his Father in a PraJer, rather than in a Sermon to them his Apofilcs ; and he does it in this his lafi Prayer, in which he layeth open the fecrets of God, and higher th4n thts we cannot go; and that this is the true mean– ing of this connexion, All thine ue mine, and mine are thine, with this, that they may be 011e, as we are : If ever I did fubmit any Interpreta– tion that ever I have given of any Scripture in my whole life, I do fub– mit this. We may fee then the great fiead the Being of the Trinity !lands us in: We fee firfi the Original Motion made for our Eternal BleiTednefs, to have founded on this, That there are Three Perfons, that have the fame God-head, and all in it as One; whereby they were moved to make the Creawres One in them, and to Communicate all in the God-head, and all elfe that was theirs unto them, and for them for their good. SECT I 0 N IT. The Second fort or Branch ofthe Moti ve in the Three Perfom. The mutual entercourfe, and Society which as Perfons they have, and had one with another ; t!md the fweetnefl of that Converfe, was an in– ducement to them to Ordain Creature~ to be tak.!n up into the li¥ communion with themfelver. This I found upon, J 0 H N XVII. 21.. That they all may be One, as .thou Father art in me~ aml I in thee, that they [A/fo] may be One in Vs. WHerein among other things, the intimate Communion ofthe F~ther, in and with the Son, and of the Son, m, and wnh the Father, ts cx– preiTed by the Fathe~s bei11g i11 the So11 , aud the So11 ill the Father: And that Converfe is of the import of thofe Terms of exprellion. And ' ·
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