Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John…

Things that are given among Men are oft-times, best at first, to wit, when they are new; and th• reason is▪ because all earthly Things wax o•d; but with Christ it is not so: This ⟨p. 14⟩Gift of the Father is not old nor deformed, and unpleasant in his Eyes; and therefore to him 'tis always new. When the Lord spake of giving the Land of Canaan to the Israelites, he saith not that he had give, or would give it them • but thus, The Lord thy God giveth thee this good Land, Deut. 9 6. Not but that he had given it to them while they were in the Loins of their Fathers, Hundreds of Years before. Yet he saith now, he giveth it to them: as if they were now also in the very Act of taking Possession, when as yet they were on the other side Jordan. What then should be the meaning? Why, I take it to be this: That the Land should be to them always as new, as new; as if they were taking Possession thereof but now. And so is the Gift of the Father mentioned in the Text, to the Son; it is always new, as if it were always new.

All that the Father giveth (Me)

In these Words you find mention made of Two Persons, the Father and the Son; the Father giving, and the Son receiving, or accepting of this Gift. This then in the first place, clearly demonstrateth, That the Father and the Son, tho' they, with the Holy Ghost are One and the same Eternal God; yet as their Personality are distinct. The Father is One, the Son is One, and the Holy Spirit as One. But because there is in this Text mention made but of Two of the Three, therefore word about these Two The Giver and Receiver cannot be the same Person in a proper sense, in the same Act of Giving and Receiving He that giveth, giveth not to himself, but to another; the Father giveth no