Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

2. Therefore Christ addresseth himself chiefly in his prayers to God the Father, because he is the original and first cause of all good, because he is the first Person in order of subsisting, and therefore first too in the manner of conveying. I know the God-head is the original of all good: but consider the Persons one with another, and so the father is ever the first in operation, as the holy Ghost is the last in consummation, for all good comes from the Father, James 1. 17. through the Son by the holy Ghost. And hence in all our prayers we are to look for all good from the Father, for his Sons sake to be conveyed us by the holy Ghost: and hence it is said, John 6. 10. No man com•s to me but whom the Father draws: Why? It is the immediate office and work of the holy Ghost to draw and apply the soul unto Christ, why then is it said, Unless the Father draw? The reason is, because that which was perfected and consummated by the holy Ghost, was intentionally and by way of purpose and decree begun originally by the Father; and this is that which Christs words have chiefly reference unto (viz) the Father through the Son by the holy Ghost draws.

2. Therefore Christ addresseth himselfe chiefly in his prayers to God the Father, because hee is the originall and first cause of all good, because he is the first Person in order of subsisting, and therefore first too in the manner of conveying. I know the God-head is the originall of all good: but consider the Persons one with another, and so the father is ever the first in operation, as the holy Ghost is the last in consummation, for all good comes from the Father, Iames 1. 17. through the Sonne by the holy Ghost. And hence in all our prayers we are to looke for all good from the Father, for his Sonnes sake to be conveyed us by the holy Ghost: and hence it is said, Iohn 6. 10. No man com•s to me but whom the Father draws: Why? It is the immediate office and worke of the holy Ghost to draw and apply the soul unto Christ, why then is it said, Vnle•se the Father draw? The reason is, because that which was perfected and consummated by the holy Ghost, was intentionally and by way of purpose and decree begun originally by the Father; and this is that which Christs words have chiefly reference unto (viz) the Father through the Son by the holy Ghost draws.