I’ve been meditating on these most mysterious and weighty words of our Lord in John 17:3, “As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” Here is indication of the Father’s donation authority and right of Christ, as God-man, to dispense salvation to the elect out of the world over which He has been given all authority. Found this passage from Manton especially illuminating in light of it:
“There is no entrance into this kingdom but by coming into the kingdom of Christ. Besides the kingdom which belongeth to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, one true and only God, there is the kingdom of Christ considered as mediator; a new right of empire and sovereignty over the creature, not destructive of the former,but accumulative, as superadded to it, that the government of God might be the more comfortable and beneficial to us in our lapsed estate.” Read the rest below.
West Port Experiment 
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