CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹3. When Christ saith here, They are thine, he doth not exclude himself from having a propriety in them, nor the holy Ghost neither; For this is the infinite privilege of the Godly that they are both the Fathers, and the Sons, and the holy Ghosts, not only because whatsoever one person hath the other hath, as Christ saith, All mine are thine, and thine are mine but in an appropriated consideration; Thus Christ saith, they are the Fathers, They are thine in the present tense, he had formerly at the sixth Verse used the preterperfect tense Thine they were, but now he useth the present tense to show, that though the Father had given them to Christ, yet he had not abdicated or quitted himself of his interest in them, he had not so given them to the Son as that the Father had no dominion or right to them, but they did still continue the the Fathers possession though they were given to Christ; And as they are the Fathers so they are the Sons purchased people also; They belong to Christ in an endeared manner, which makes them to be called bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, Eph. 5.30. To be his members and body as he is the head; They are also the holy Ghosts, and therefore they are said to have the Spirit dwelling in them, and they are his Temple, and they are led by the Spirit, and walk in the Spirit; We are the Fathers by mere grace, and therefore are given to Christ as a Mediator; We are Christs by merit, for he purchased us by his blood; We are the Spirits by operation, for he works the holy Image of God in us: Oh then that our hearts were enlarged in this matter, that we might wonder how and why we who are not worth the owning or the the looking after, should yet be made the Lords in such endeared respects.²

¹3. When Christ saith here, They are thine, he doth not exclude himself from having a propriety in them, nor the holy Ghost neither; For this is the infinite priviledge of the Godly that they are both the Fathers, and the Sons, and the holy Ghosts, not only because whatsoever one person hath the other hath, as Christ saith, All mine are thine, and thine are mine but in an appropriated consideration; Thus Christ saith, they are the Fathers, They are thine in the present tense, he had formerly at the sixth Verse used the preterperfect tense Thine they were, but now he useth the present tense to shew, that though the Father had given them to Christ, yet he had not abdicated or quitted himself of his interest in them, he had not so given them to the Sonne as that the Father had no dominion or right to them, but they did still continue the the Fathers possession though they were given to Christ; And as they are the Fathers so they are the Sons purchased people also; They belong to Christ in an indeared manner, which makes them to be called bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh,