~{/;ePerfon ofChrifl the Foundation . ' his upon the Accomplifhment ofthem ; Johfr~7 5. Andnow, 0 Father, g,lorijj me with thine own felf with -the Glory which I had with thee /Jefore the Worldwas. To fuppofe that the Lord Chrifi prayetl1 in thefe words for fuch a real communi . .cation of the Propertys of the Divin~ Nature unto the Hu· . ·mane, as fhould render it immenft, bmnifcient, and uncon· fined unto any fpace, is to think that he prayed fer the de· frruction and not the exaltation ofit. For on that ·· fuppofiti· on it mul1: neceiTarily loofe all its own effential Properties)and confequently its Being. Ncr dothhe feem to pray only for .the Manifeflation of his Divine Nature, which was et:lipfed in h is exinanition or appearance in the form of a fervant. There was no need to exprefs this, by the Glory which he had with the Father hfore the fVorld was. For he lud it not in any e– fpedal manner before the World was; but equally from eter, nity and in every moment of time. Wherefore he had a pe– culiar Glory of his own with the Father be_fore the World was. And this was no other, but that efpecial exaltation which he had when he was fit up from everlafring as the Foundation of the Counfels of God, for the falvation of the Church. In t-H.af~ e.tetn1l Tranfafrions that were between the Father and the Son, · with refpefr unto his Incarnation and Mediation, or his undertaking to execute and fulfil the eter– nal Counfels of the ·wifdom and Grace of the Father, there was an eJpecialGlory which the Son had witbhim. TheG/ory which he hadwith the Father /Jefore tbe vVorld was. For the manirefiation hereofhenow prays; and that the Glory of his Goodnefs, Grace and Love in his peculiar undertaking of the execution of the Counfels of God, might be made to-ap- _ pear. And this is the principal defign of the GofpeJ. It is the declaration as~_of the Grace of God the Father, fo of the Love, Grace, Goodnefs and Compafllon ofthe Son in under– taking from everlaiting the Accompli!hment ofGods Coun. fels
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