Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

174 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.in Us, that the world may believe that Thou hastsent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me,I have given them, that they may be One as wealso are One/ He said not, that I and they maybe One thing, although in that He is the Head ofthe Church, and the Church His Body, He mightsay, I and they not One thing, but One person ,because the Head and the Body is One Christ.But marking His Godhead as consubstantial withthe Father (whence in another place He says, Iand the Father are One thing), He wills that Hisown should be One thing in their own kind, thais, in the consubstantial parity of the same nature,but in Him, because in themselves they could not,as severed from each other by diversity of pleasures,desires, and impurities of sin. From thesethey are cleansed through the Mediator, so as tobe One Thing in Him, not merely by the same naturein which all from mortal men become equal tothe angels, but likewise by the same will breathingin perfect harmony together into the same beatitude,welded, as it were, by the fire of charity intoOne Spirit. For this is the force of His words,That they may be One, as We also are One : thatas the Father and the Son are One not onequality of substance, but also in will, so thesealso between whom and God the Son is Mediator,may be One Thing not merely by being of thesame nature, but also by the same society of affection.And the very point that He is Mediator,