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

The words need no further explication, then what will necessarily be discussed in the Doctrine; only when Christ is said to be in believers, and the Father in him, this is not to be understood exclusively, as if the Father were not also in believers, for the Scripture expressly affirmeth that Joh. 14.23. yea it's impossible to have the Son in us, and not the Father also, 2 ep. Joh. 29. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, hath both the Father and the Son. Yea we cannot know the Son, or believe in him, except we believe in the Father also, Joh. 1.4, 7, 8, 9. When Philip desired Christ to show him the Father, because Christ spake so much of him, our Saviour doth first reprove Philip, and then instruct him: Reprove vers. 9. Have I been so long time with you, and yet thou hast not known me? Observe that, Philip desired to see the Father, and Christ rebuketh him for not knowing of him; and then instructs him, He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father also; and thereupon he proceeds to exhortation, ver. 11. Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. So that by this discourse none can know or believe in Christ, but he must also know and believe in the Father; and because the Disciples were not so fully acquainted herein, they are checked by our Saviour, saying, Have I been so long time with you, and ye know not me? The longer time people have lived under means of grace, and yet not acquainted with divine truths, it is the greater condemnation. When we speak of the Fathers being in Christ, this is not to be understood in a speculative and abstracted sense, but practically, and as it relateth to us, for to that purpose is it spoken by our Saviour, that hereby it might be showed, that the Father is in us also.

The words need no further explication, then what will necessarily be discussed in the Doctrine; onely when Christ is said to be in beleevers, and the Father in him, this is not to be understood exclusively, as if the Father were not also in beleevers, for the Scripture expressly affirmeth that Joh. 14.23. yea it's impossible to have the Son in us, and not the Father also, 2 ep. Joh. 29. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, hath both the Father and the Son. Yea we cannot know the Sonne, or believe in him, except we believe in the Father also,