Encouragements to faith Drawn from several engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive…Encouragements to faith Drawn from severall engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive…

And this also I do first mention, because it is the most intrinsical bottom-demonstration that can be made of Christs willingness, and is the utmost reason of it.

And this also I do first mention, because it is the most intrinsecall bottome-demonstration that can be made of Christs willingnesse, and is the utmost reason of it.

This demonstration I found upon Joh. 10. 30. [I and my Father are one] That whereas in this my Text he shows how his Fathers will and his agree in one, he there gives the reason of it, for (says he) we are one: and the words there, as they stand in their coherence, are proper to the purpose in hand. For Christ there allegeth them, as the reason why his heart, and power, and all in him is so engaged for the salvation of his own, that if he have any power in him, and be able to do any thing, not one of them shall perish, because his Father and he are one. For mark the occasion upon which he speaks this, it is the same that here in my Text. He had been speaking of saving his sheep, and of his power and will to save them; and concludes, that they shall never perish. And he says not only, that he will never cast them out, (as here) but that, neither shall any man pluck them out of his hand. And in that speech he shows and utters the strength of his will, as much as of his power. For otherwise although his hand of power had been never so potent to have held them, against all opposition, yet if his will had not as strongly resolved to hold them in his hand, and so, if they were not as deep in his heart as they are fast in his hands, this speech of his had not been made good, That they shall never perish. And then he gives the reason both of this resoluteness of his will, and this prevalence of his power, from his Fathers both will and power, engaged as much as his own, in this fullness: My Father (says he) that gave them me is greater then all, and none is able to pluck them cut of my Fathers hands. He pleads here first his Fathers will, [He gave them me:] And then secondly, his power, (whom these Jews he spake to acknowledged greater than all, though him they did not) He is greater then all; none can pluck them out of his hands: and then argues to himself, [My Father and I are one:] One in nature,