Of E!eClion. will come rmtoh1m, ,mdm,zke o11r abode WJthhrm: T nus of the Farhor and ~ Son. And there is rho manifefiation of the Sptr!t alfo, 2 Cor. I 2. and he is Chap. 7· promifed 10 dwet! in us, andbe wM us for ever, John •+ 17• and is the Re- v-v--..1 v eater of Gods, and Chrif\s mindto us, and of the deep thwgs of God, 1 Cor. 2. 10, I,, 12, I6. And all thefe difpenfarions in rime , have for their Spring and Well-head, rbefe original Purpofes and Tranfadions from Everlaf\ing. They each !ingly, and joyntly for one another , de!ired to have themfelves made known to us, to the end robe glorified by us : The Spirit Loves to glo– rilie the Son to us, John I 6. r4· He {halt gtorifie me, for he /bat! rectivt of mi11e, and fhalt jbew it uutoyou. The Father to have his Son honoured as himfelf is: John 5• 22, 2r For the Father )t~dgeth 110 Ma11: But bath com– mitted alt jurfgme11t unto 1he S011: That at! Mm fho"td hollottr the So11, even as they honour the Father. He that honot<reth 11ot the So11, ho110ureth not the Father which hmh fe1Jt him. F;1ther glorifie thy Name, fay's the Son of the Father: John r 2. 28. I have glorified it, and will glorifie it again, fays the Fa– ther to the Son in anfwer thereunto: They love to have their own perfonal In– beings, and communicotions among thcmfelves made known to us , as farr as we are capable: Johll. I 4. 20. at that day ye !hall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. The Man Chrift Jefus united to the fecond Perfon, fpeaks the fenfe of that Perfon, and llis Fathers alfoin this, .7ohn 17. 2 r, 22• .As thou F.uher art i" me, a11d I m them, that they alfo may be 011t '"m. Which is as if he had fa id, Thou, Father, knowef\ how blelfed and delightful this Oncncfs of ours together bath been umo..us; what infinite joy and happinefs it hath produced to u~, and in us; and it will be fweet to us to have Fellows, who [t~ljo] may be partakers of our joys, who may both be enjoyers of it themfelves, and alfo may under– f\and what hath'been among our felves from all Eternity (according to thole words of Chrifi's, Johll I 4· 20·J 'M fhatt k1ww that I am i1z my F.,ther, a11dyot~ in me, and I m you;) and adore us for it: You fee alfo that this Man, God's Fel– low, when he was taken up into that Fellowfhip, he became of the fame difj>o– fition; he de!ired not to be alone: And he had it from the difpoittion of the per– fan he was united to, the Son ofGod; andfo God gave him Fellows thereupon, P(a/,45 .7.And he being mmzifefl i11 the.fle/b,exprelfeth and utters but what was in the heart of all the three : Thus this Natural Society of the three , and the pleafure thereof induced this acquired,and fought out Society made up ofCrea– ture converfe with this God and Three Perfom, To whom /;e attglory for rver. I conclude with this,the Divine Narure,and the three Perfons are all,and the whole that are in God : And lo, you have all thefe gracioully inclined unto this our Union and Communion with them, and then you have all that is in God become motives, and indudives to it: And you can have no mere. I might add for the confirmation of this Notion, That what was in the nature of God, had influence upon his Gracious will to move him to do rhe like for us in many particular inftances only.Wh~t he /h~uld do for u,,being mat– ter of wztt in him, he might do it, or not do it as he pleofed, and to whom, or whom not,as he pleafed,becaufe it was matter ofwill;yet fomethingthat was natural , was the inducer of his will therun to. Vfe. 0 let us take heed, lefi we be left out ofthis royal Society! as by allufio:, to what IS lower, ond leffer I may call it; Le(\ our lot !hould fall to be with the ref:t of the World, as in Verf. 2~. of this John. '7· Chrin fcts it forth, )e(\ that WC only [mow, and that tOO [ate, that there have been a company of Men whom God bath loved, and taken up into Union with himfelf, to b"e ever withi the Lord; when our felves l11all have that fatal fentence pronounced againf:t us by our Lord Chrifi, 'Departfrom me, I /mow ;ye not: And it is that you are workers of iniquity that will caufe this eternal feparn1ion: He thcro– fore faith, depart from me )'e workers of imquzty: And as !lwApof\le foi1h, let every one therefore that Names the Lord, dep.•rt from imquit~ : The words of Chrifi concerning the World are thefe in the 2l Vrr{e. Tbat the world may !wow th.u thou h.tfl fent me, and hlljl lo11ed 1hem, as thott h.Jjl lvvrd me:
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