z Thelt are not the things we are incenſed againſt thee tor; we grant that chou haſt done many good Works amongſt as ; theſe we gratefully acknowledg. a Bur this is that which we are not able ro bear, That whereas thou art but a meer man, by thy diſcourſes thou makeſt thy ſelf equal with God, and fo art guilty of Blaſphemy ; ( which is committed as well by arrogating to our (elves what is proper to God, as by imputing to God theNatural or Moral imperfe&ions of the Crea- ture; and the Blaſphemer delerverh to be ſtoned, according to the Law of God. By this it is manifef}, chat the Fews underflond our Sa- viour, affirming that He and his Father were One; as alle: ting him- feff One in Eſſence with his Father, notin WY only.
34 Jeſus anſwered them, Is it not written in your law, I ſaid, Ye are godsb?
b This was writren, Pal. 82.5. The whole Scripture of the Ol4 Teſtament, being wrote by holy Men, inſpired of Gag, and direQive of mens Converſation before men, and towards God, is ſometimes call'd, The Law, Pſal. 19. 79. It was ſpoken concerning Magiſtrates, and the Governors of G5d's people, who being Gods De-puries, and Vicegerents, intruſted to execute the Judgments and Vengeance of God, are dignified with the nzme of Gods.
35 If he called them gods, nnto whom the word of God came c, and the ſcripture cannot be broken 4 :
c If God Dignified thoſe Men, { and many of them were allo viſe and Sinful Men) with the the Title of gods, becauſe rhey had a Com- miſſion to Govern People according to the Law of God, 4 and none muſt contradict what God hath ſaid in his word ; there can be no falſhood in the Revelation of any part of rhe Divine will.
[ ſaid +, I am the Son of God /? e Suppoſe I were no more than a meer man, yet being SanZified, that js, fer apart of God for the ſpecial work of Mans Redemprion ;
and ſent of God into the World, with Commiſlion both to reveal
Urning from'their groſs and ſinful ways, which they might have done by virtve of chat common grace of God, which was afforded them in the Goſpel, by the Preaching of John the Baptiſt, and of Chriſt himſelf.
27 My ſheep hear my voice, and I know them and | they follow me 9. |
7 This is the ſame which he ſaid ver/c 4+ (ſee the notes there.
and ro do his Will ; yer dare you ſay, that I b{ajpheme, becauſe | ſaid, [ am the Sox of God” f In the place, viz. Pſal. 82.6. Where God ſaid of Magittrates, ye. are Gods ; He allo added, 22 of you are
| Chilaren of the moit High ; you have therefore no reaſon to rage at
me, though I did ſay I was the Sen of God ; being one whom the Father hath in his Eternal Countels fer apart for this great and ſpecial Work ; and aQually by his Providence ſen: into the World for
the finiſhing and diſpatching of it. But we nwſt take heed, thar we
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cauſe that thou being aman, * makeſt thy ſelt God a. * Ch.s 19.
36 Say ye of him * whom the Father hath ſanXifed | Ch.5.27. and ſent into the world e, Thou blaſphemeſt *; becauſe : Ln -t7s
t Luk.1.35
1 23 And Igive unto them eternal life, - and * they
«121! never periſh 5, neither ſhall any pluck them out of my hand 7.
a1 ! do give them, and I'will give them eternal life; as ſoon as they ſhall = _ hear, and believe my voice, and to follow me, they 1” 0am 2 ſure right and title to it; and when my Father by his they & 30-1 ſhall remove them out of the world, and in the great day, hall all be taken up into the aftual poſſeſſion of it. 5 For they epbethcs periſh, but though they may fall, they ſhall riſe again by ons ſha * They are in my hand, and my hand ſhall preferve them ; ut by ever pluck them out of it ; they ſhall be preſerved through
2 Apes Power of God t5 eternal life and Salvation.
Al 7 © MyFather which gave them me, is greater than
' *: and no man is able to pluck them: out of my Fa- mers hand.
af ” that are my ſheep, became { by my Fathers donaticn and ſervation ol Father is equally with my ſelf concerned in the pre- tligneq t them to that happy end, to which he hath ordained and "gs Thoſe thar would pluck them out of my hand, and ; em of that eternal life which I will give them,muſt be too who _ for me alone, bur for my Father alſo, which none is; for © f09 ſtrong for Omniporence ?
32 Land yFather are one w. Vol. Il.
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do nor underſtand our Saviour here, as if ke in anorher ſenſe aimed ro him the Title of the Son of God ; it was enough for him art pre- ſent to aſſert, that the Titie well enough belonged ro him, if be in- deed had been no more than the Son of man, as they ſaid.
37 * It I do not the works of my Father, believe * Chap.
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g Our Saviour doth ofren appeal ro his Works to teſtify concern- ing his Divine Miſſion and Power. Theſe Works, he here calleth hc works of his Father ; by which he doth not only man Works that are vleaſing and acceptable to God, as Atts of Obedience to rhe Will of God, performed by Men, may be called and are, Chzp. 6. 28, 29. nor {us I concerve) only thoſe Works which he did by Commiltion and Authoriry from his Father ; which Cha>.19. 4 ne calieth :þe work w:hi.h hu Father had given him 19 as: bat thoſe Works which none buc God could do; ſuch were the multip;ication of ihe Loaves, Chape 6. 11,5, The curing of him who was Garn old, Chaps 9s 4T, ©. If { faith our Saviour) 1 do not do thels Works which no meer Man ever did, give mz no ccedir ; but if 1 do thoſe Works which can bz done by no huinane Art or Power, you have reaſon to believe me.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me -, * be-
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