462 QUESTIONS CONCERNING JESUS. of his human nature to the same godhead that is in the Father; and that for these three reasons : I. Because the disciples at this time were not particularly acquainted with any distinct divinity of Christ, and therefore he cannot be supposed to speak to them of this his divinity, and tell them where it was, viz. in the Father. It was as man that he conversedwith them ; but as a manwho had God everwith him, and he is now further explaining the intimacy of this union be- tween God and man in his own person. 2. Though the deity of Christ considered as the eternal word or wisdom of the Father, may be said to be or dwell in the Father, yet God the Father is not said to bein his wisdom, orto dwell in his wisdom ; whereas this inbeing and indwelling of Christ and the Father are mutual in the text, I am in the Fa, Mer, and the Father in nie : it denotes the union of two really distinct Beings in one. 3. Because Christ makes this his union with the Father an exemplar or similitudeof the union ofthe saints with God ; John xvii. 21. That they all may be one, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that also may be one in us. The union and com- munion between the man Jesus and God the Father, though it is vastly superior to that of the saints, yet it is still voluntary and of mere grace, and in this respect it may properly made use of as a veryglorious exemplar of our union to God and Christ : But the inbeing of the eternal word or wisdom in the Father is o essential togodhead, it so infinitely transcends all his voluntary and condescendingunion to us, and is so infinitely different from it, that it does not seem to be a proper exemplar or pattern thereof, I much rather conclude therefore, that the union here described is the union between God the Father arid the man Christ Jesus, or between the same divine nature which is in the Father and the human nature of Christ. Remark II. Jesus Christ neither in this place nor in any other doth ever ascribe his divine works to any other divine power of his own, or to any other godhead of his own, distinct and dif- ferent from the godhead of the Father. I live by the Father ; John xiv. 19. The Father is in me, and it is the Father in me that doth the works ; John xiv. 10. It is but one godhead of theFather and the Son ; not two divine natures or two godheads, for this would seem to make two gods. Nor has the Holy Spirit to whom sometimes Christ ascribes his works, any godhead dif- ferent from that of the Father. Remark III. Let it be observed further, that when our Sa., viour tells his disciples, and particularly informs Thomas and Philip, that by " seeing and knowing the Son, they see and know the Father also," he does not give this reason for it, viz. that he is the very image of the Father, or the representativeor
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