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5. The Father is the first Person in the sacred Trinity, and works from himself; the Son is the second and works from the Father. Thus he tells us, that he can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the Father do, Joh. 5. 19. And in his Prayer to his Father, he saith; Thine they were ⟨p. 79⟩and thou gavest them me, Joh. 17. 6. Thine they were by Election, and thou gavest them me, as the peculiar purchase of my Passion. But now if Christ by his Merits do found the very Decree of Election, is not the Order of working in the sacred Trinity inverted? Is not the Son the first Origin of our Salvation? Doth not the Father, even in his Eternal Election, work from the Son? Might not the Scripture rather have said, that the Elect were given by the Son to the Father, than by the Father to the Son? Wherefore to me it seems most congruous to say, That the Fathers Love laid the first plot of our Salvation, and then the Sons Blood purchased Grace and Glory for us.

5. The Father is the first Person in the sacred Trinity, and works from himself; the Son is the second and works from the Father. Thus he tells us, that he can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the Father do, Joh. 5. 19. And in his Prayer to his Father, he saith; Thine they were ⟨p. 79⟩and thou gavest them me, Joh. 17. 6. Thine they were by Election, and thou gavest them me, as the peculiar purchase of my Passion. But now if Christ by his Merits do found the very Decree of Election, is not the Order of working in the sacred Trinity inverted? Is not the Son the first Origine of our Salvation? Doth not the Father, even in his Eternal Election, work from the Son? Might not the Scripture rather have said, that the Elect were given by the Son to the Father, than by the Father to the Son? Wherefore to me it seems most congruous to say, That the Fathers Love laid the first plot of our Salvation, and then the Sons Blood purchased Grace and Glory for us.