Ver.io. the 17th Ch.dptërof St, J O H N. l t unto them Eternal Life, and. they full never perifh, neither fhrall any Man pluck them out of my Hand. My Father which gave them me, is greater than all, and no Man is able to pluck them out of my Fathtr's Hand : I and my Father are one : He is greater than all, greater than me as Redeemer. If I acknowledg them for mine,' they muff have Grace, and cannot mifcarry ; We are two Perlons, but one God; he is a Joynt -Caufe working together with me, one in.Power, one in Counfel. 2. From the Unity and Agreement in Will and Defign. They are One, and agree iri one The Perfms are refolved to glorify one another. In Man's Salvation the Father will have the Honour of Fleeting, that the Son may have the Honour of Purchafing; and the Spirit the Honour of Sanaifying. It is laid of the Spirit, John 16. iç. Hè fliall glorify me, for he 'hall receive of mine, and fhaIl Phew it untoyon r And Chrift faith, John 14. i3. ye (hall ash in my Name, that will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. The Son came into the World to make good the Purpofes of the Father, John 8. 5o. I fèek not my own Glory : and the Son fendeth the Spirit : God fendeth the Son, and the Spirit anointeth Chrift 5 Alls ro. 38. God anointeth Jefus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghofi and with Power. There is a perfea Agreement, mu- tual Millions between. them. 'lift t. To condemn them which pit alunder thofe Operations which God bath joyned together, the Arminian in Do &rive,. the common People in Pra &ice. I. The Arminians in Doarine, by dividing Chrift from Eleaion, or Eleaion from Chrift ; as if Chrift were to die for thole that were never Hefted and chofen to Life, equally as for thofe that were ;or as if he expelled Glory from, and defigned Salvation unto all alike : There trouble the Links of the Chain of Salvation ; how can it be Aid, All thine are mine, and mine are thine, when God would never own them, and. the Spirit would never fandify them ? ' 2. The common People, that fever the Ele&ion of God, and Redemption Of Chrift, from the San&ification of the Spirit : They fay Chrift dyed for them, when there is no Evidence of it ; or that God loveth them, when there are no Fruits of his Love : The Fruit of the Father's Love, is fending of the Spirit, and he that bath not the Spirit of Chr, is none of his ; Rom. 8. g. If God had chofen thee, thou wouldit be fandtfied : Sanlification it is as it were art a &ual Ele&ion ; John 15. 19. Becanfe I have chofen you out of the World, .therefore the World hateth yon. As by Eleítion we are diffinguifhed from others in the Counfel of Goc}t; to by S3necificatipn we are ahually let apart. If Chrift had dyed for thee; thou wouldlt have the whole Fruit of his Purehale; Ephef. 5.26. Chrifi loved the Church, an gave himfelffr it, that he might and cleanfe it with the wafting of Water by the Word. Ufe 2. Information, how Believers come to be poffeffed of fuck excellent Privi- ledges : All that areGod's, are thrift's ; and all things that are thrift's, are ours by Faith. ,There is the fame Communion between Us and_ Chrift, as there is between Chrift and God ; t Cor. 3. 2 3. 411 are yours, for you are Chrs's, and Grill is God's c We have it from the Father's Love, by the Son's Purchafe, Chrift was God's natural Heir ; he made a Purchafe, that he might adopt Heir's, and take their in with himfelf; by Faith we are taken in. We may fay between us and thrift; 471 mine are thine, and thine are mine : I am my Beloved's, and he is mine ; Cant. 2. /6. Lift 3. To (hew us the Comfort of the Faithful ; God and thrift have an equal Intereft in them ; the Father loveth them as thrift's, as his own; Chrift careth for them as the Father's, as his own r lehre I. 3. Our Fe/kw/hip is with the Father, and with bis Son Jerre Chrifl. *sod made the Elea Members of thrift's Body, that he might redeem them 5 Chrift made them Children of his Family, that he might love them. The Father faith, They are mine; the Son faith, They are mine; the Power of God iffueth through Chrift for their Salvation ; 2 John r, g. He that abideth in the Aoárirre of Chrifi be bath the Father and she Son : We may expeh the Fruits of E- leâive Love, and the Fruits of thrift's Purchafe. Two are better than one, we have the Father to love us, the Son to redeem us, the Spirit to fanhify us, and bring us to God: It is a great Advantage; an t6. 27. The Father himfelf loveth you. When Joab law the thing was pleating to David; he interceded for Abfalom, 2 Sam.t¢, X. The King's Heart was towards Abfalom. We have more Confidence to fpeed in our Pray- ers: He loveth us for his own fake; and for thrift's. Chrift bath fatisfied the juftice. ßif
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