A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened…

But the power of the Deity in Christ, by his Spirit, hath fitted me for himself, and hath carried me to himself, made me one Spirit with himself, doth all for himself in me, that he may receive all to himself from me, and I might wholly have such a desire, that all that we have may hold out his Excellency in all these his Dispensations, and so have nothing of my self, do nothing from my self, which excludes Works wholly. Here the Soul is compassed about with all the Power of Heaven; nothing but with the power of God in Christ. Whereas Adam, who did something of himself, from a Principle he had, ⟨p. 162⟩so he might have taken something to himself, he had whereof to rejoice. But God in this way and work, he doth all from himself by man, no man doth it: He receives all to himself from Man, Man must take nothing.

But the power of the Deity in Christ, by his Spirit, hath fitted me for himself, and hath carried me to himself, made me one Spirit with himself, doth al for himself in me, that he may receive al to himself from me, and I might wholly have such a desire, that al that we have may hold out his Excellency in al these his Dispensations, and so have nothing of my self, do nothing from my self, which excludes Works wholly. Here the Soul is compassed about with al the Power of Heaven; nothing but with the power of God in Christ. Whereas Adam, who did somting of himself, from a Principle he had, ⟨p. 162⟩so he might have taken somthing to himself, he had whereof to rejoyce. But God in this way and work, he doth al from himself by man, no man doth it: He receives al to himself from Man, Man must take nothing.

2. Love of complacency, that the Father takes content, and solaceth himself in the enjoyment of his Faithful, whom he hath thus chosen out of the World; therefore termed, his own, Joh. 13.1. A little of our own, say we, gives to little content and rest to their owner. A mans own house he delights to lodge in, delights to converse with his own servants, or little ones. Thus the Lord is said to know the righteous, not to know the way of the Ungodly: Depart, I know you not. As a man is said to own such a person so educated: As the sensible Creatures can own their Mates, and their young by the sense, they scent the Nature of such, and own something of themselves in them, as generated of them. So he that hath not the Spirit, is none of Christs; the Spirit which God the Father sent in Christs Name, by that his are owned. As sometime a Parent, when the Child sent into a far Country, and conceived to be lost and dead, shall yet return, there is some manner of his Speech, some Natural guise in his Carriage, some cast of his Look, whereby the Parent will own him, and know him for his. As there was a secret owning, and yearning of Bowels in the true Mother to the Child, when it could not be determined whose it was. So God the Father, who hath sent the Spirit of his Son into the hearts of his, he cannot but know, and acknowledge it, and take complacency, and contentment in it.