i6o SERMONS upon Serm,i9. SERMON XIX. JOHN XVII. t t. And now I am no more in the World, but Chef are in the World, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name thole whom thou haft given me, that they may be one, as we are. Fifthly ; H E Latt Circum(tance, [ That they may be one, as we are j is the Aim of Chris's Requetl, which is Unity and Con. Cent among the Apoftles. It is illuftrated by the Patern or Exemplar of it, .At we are one. The Explicatory Queftions are two : I. What kind ofUnity this is that is prayed for? Ir. Under what refpe& it is prayed for in this place ? I. What this Unity is ? How one ? One in Judgment, or one in Heart, or one Body knit together with the fame Spirit ? I anfwer ; All there : For confiderfor whorl Chrift prayeth, for the Difciples of that Age, and principally for the College of the Apoftles; now faith he, Let them be one. There is a double Unity, Myftical and Moral. r. Myftical Union is the Union of Believers with Chrift the Head, and with one another; with Chrift the Head by Faith, and with one another by Love : er dose 'è v, underftand Ëv are oe s So it agreeth with the Letter of this Place, nay with the Meaning. This Union 6f Believers in the fame Body, is often compared with the Myflery of the Trinity ; and it is elfwhere expretfed by one Body, as Col. a. r g. And not bolding the Head, from which all the Body by joints and Bands having Nourifhment r,sinifired, and knit together, increafèth with the Increafe of God ; a place full to this purpole, where all Believers, in regard of their Union with the Head, and with one another, are let forth as one Body, governed under one Head, by one Spirit, by which they increafe and grow up, till they come to filch a kind of Unity, as is among the Divine Perlons. I cannot exclude this, becaufe where Chrifcs Prayers are indefinite, it is good to interpret them in their full latitude, and according to the extent of his Purchafe. And yet I think this is not principally intended,.becaufe (as I laid) Chrift chiefly prayeth for the Apoftles and Dilciples of that Age, not for the Church Catholick or Univerfal. 2. There is a Moral Union, and that is twofold : (r.) Confent in Do &rine. (a.) Mutual Agreement and Concord of Affe &ion. As it is laid of the Church, As 4. 32. The multitude of them that believed, were of one Heart, and ohe Mind. One Heart, that noteth Agreement in Af eetion 5 and one Mind, Agreement in Judgment : for both there doth Chris pray. (r.) Let them be one in Dot-trine and Judgment. Chris had intrulted them with the weightier Affair the Sons of Men are capable of, with the promulgation of the Gofpel 5 a Do &rine which Chrift brought out of the Bofom of the Father, and gave it to the Apoftles, and they to the Church; and Chrift obtained that which he prayed for. There is filch an exa& content and harmony between the Doetrine of the Apo- ftles, that is a fufficient Foundation for the Faith and Unity of the Church. For the Faith of the Church; s Cor. r 5.I0,í Li laboured more abundantly than they all ;yet not I,but the
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