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

JOHN 17.21. As thou Father art in me, and I in thee.

The second thing considerable in this Text, is the Pattern and Example of Unity. It's not all kind of unity he prayeth for, but that which is the most absolute and perfect, even such unity as is between the Father and Son: Not as if this did denote equality, but similitude only. Because this pattern was mentioned in the prayer for the Apostles unity, I shall not repeat what then was delivered: Only this must be acknowledged, That there is a two-fold Interpretation of this being of the Father in the Son, and the Son in the Father. The Ancients they understand this of the Divine Nature, as if the unity here spoken were homeousial: But Calvin saith, Huc eos abripuit contentio cum Arianis, the heat of dispute with the Arians carried them off from the sense: So that he giveth a second interpretation, making the speech to be understood, not of the son in respect of his Divine Nature, but of his Mediatorship, for by that he is made one with God the Father, and one with us: For whereas before Christs Mediatorship there was a miserable confusion and dissipation of mankind, God the Father against man, and man against God; Through Christ there is an happy unity obtained: So that in Calvins judgement, this unity is that of a Mediator, whereby Christ as Head of his Church, being joined to us, doth thereby also join us to the Father. In this sense also he explaineth that known place, John 10. I and my Father are one; Neither may we think (as some have calumniated, that Calvin doth Judaize or Arianize; for though he deny this to be the sense of these places, yet otherwise he doth firmly propugn the true Doctrine about Christs Divine Nature. But there is no solid ground to make these interpretations distinct, for one doth necessarily suppose the other. Christ could not be our Mediator and Head, to make us one with the Father, unless he were God, and so of the same nature with the Father; and therefore the unity of their Nature must be understood, as the foundation.

THe second thing considerable in this Text, is the Patern and Example of Ʋnity. It's not all kinde of unity he prayeth for, but that which is the most absolute and perfect, even such unity as is between the Father and Sonne: Not as if this did denote equality, but similitude only. Because this patern was mentioned in the prayer for the Apostles unity, I shall not repeat what then was delivered: Only this must be acknowledged, That there is a two-fold Interpretation of this being of the Father in the Son, and the Son in the Father. The Ancients they understand this of the Divine Nature, as if the unity here spoken were homeousial: But Calvin saith, Huc eos abripuit contentio cum Arianis, the heat of dispute with the Arians carried them off from the sense: So that he giveth a second interpretation, making the speech to be understood, not of the son in respect of his Divine Nature, but of his Mediatorship, for by that he is made one with God the Father, and one with us: For whereas before Christs Mediatorship there was a miserable confusion and dissipation of mankinde, God the Father against man, and man against God; Through Christ there is an happy unity obtained: So that in Calvins judgement, this unity is that of a Mediatour, whereby Christ as Head of his Church, being joyned to us, doth thereby also joyn us to the Father. In this sense also he explaineth that known place,