Reason 3. The cause of this Gracious Knowledge doth as won∣derfully magnifie the same, considerable in the Efficient, for∣mal and final.
1. THe Efficient cause and Author thereof is the blessed Trinity jointly, yet distinctly, Revealing and commu∣nicating Jesus Christ unto his chosen people.
1. The external Operations of God towards the creature being indivisibly effected by the three Persons,* 1.1 concurring in One, the Son doing nothing but what he sees his Father do, and working still, as the Father works; and the Spirit pro∣ceeding from both, speaks not of himself, but whatsoever he hears from them both,* 1.2 that speaks he unto Christs Disciples.
2. Distinctly, according to their distinct personal Relations.
1. The Father electing from eternity; having chosen them in Christ before the Foundation of the world,* 1.3 that they might be holy and unblameable before him in Love; and therefore predestinating them to the Adoption of children, by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his Will; and making them,* 1.4 through his knowledge, meet partakers of his Inheritance in Light,* 1.5 by translating them into the King∣dom of his dear Son, who were chosen according to his fore∣knowledge through sanctification of the Spirit.
2. The Son accepting and undertaking, tendring and ef∣fecting, in and by himself the whole business of their Salvati∣on;