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

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. Rom. 8.27. he is said to know the meaning of his Spirit. Hence they are called; Gods precious ones, Isai. 43.4. his Jewels, Mal. 3.17. yea, Christ professeth, he is ravished with the cast of the eye of the Spouse, Cant. 4.9. That cast of the eye of Faith, that looks only to God in Christ, takes all from him, holds out nothing else.

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; therfore 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 lodg 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 Ʋngodly: 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 yong by the sence, they scent the Nature of such, and own somthing 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 somtime 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 wil own him, and know him for his. As there was a secret owning, and yerning 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 acknowledg it, and take complacency, and contentment in it.