and to abide with them for ever. Thoit-may alſo have referenceto his | fl:2ences of Divine grace, ſuted co the Souls various neceffiries : + nay, coming again to judge both the Quick and the Dead, to receive them | our Lord promiſerh, not only his and his Fathers coming to, but t0 biinſelt, that ( as he ſaid b<fore ) they might always be where he | their making an abode with ſuch as love him, and keep his Commana- 3s; but the ewo former ſenſes, are underſtood as more ſpecially re- | ments. Here the abiding of the firſt and ſecond Perſon in the Trinity Icing to cheic preſent diſtcelſc upon account of his bodily abſence | with Believers, wer. 16. the Abidingofthe third perſon with them is
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often promiſed to them in holy Writ: Thus our Saviour anſ\ wereth one part of what 71.5 ſaid, How 4 it that thou wilt manifeſt thy ſelf to u5? becauſe ſaith our Saviour, you love me and keep my words; for tho' no love, no works of ours foreſeen or ſeen, be the cauſe of eternal love, or the firſt grace ; yet it is ſo much a cauſe of further grace, eſpecially in the ſenſible manifeſtations of it, that no Soul mutt expe ir that doth not love Chriſt, and keep his words. He alſo further gives them a reaſon, as to the ſecond thing he asked, why he did not manifeſt himſelf to the World. : 24 He that loveth me not, keepeth not my ſayings 2, and * the word which you hear is not mine &, but the
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i Becauſe they did not love him, nor keep his ſayings, their ſin wa3s aggravated ; becauſe k the words which he ſpake, were not his Will only, 7 but the will of his Father who had ſent him into the World, to reveal his Will to the Sons of men. = rq
25 Theſe things have I ſpoken unto you, being yet preſent with you m:.
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26 But the Comforter, which is the holy Ghoſt, whom
1 John 2. the Father will ſend in my Name -,, * he ſhall teach
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brance, whatſoever I have faid unto you p. : » The word is the ſame, which was fo tranſlated before ; ſee the import of it, wer. 16, 17.) he is there called the Comforter, and the Spirit of rruth ; here the Holy Spirit. The Father here is ſaid to ſend in the Name, that is, with the 4x: horzty, and upon the Mecdiation of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt: and two pieces of the Spirits work beſides Comforting, are here expreſſed. o He ſhall more fully explain to you all things : three of the Apoſtles themſelves had already in this Chap- rer diſcovered great degrees of ignorance as to the DoQtrin of the Tri nity, Chriſt's Union or Oneneſs with his Father, &'c. You ſhall not be lefr (faith our Saviour) in this ignorance ; for when the holy Spirit ſhall come, he ſhall more fully and perfe&ly inſtru you in =11 things, which [ have already inſtruQted you, and which are neceſ- ſary for you to know in order to your eternal happineſs : p and ſhall bring to your remembrance the things I have taught you, ſoas you ſhall more fully andclearly underſtand them ; and tho' you may have forgotten them, yet they ſhall by the Holy Spirit be recetved in your memories, fo as they ſhall not be like water fpilt on the ground, which cannot again be gathered up, but like ſeed ſown in the Earth, which tho' it may at preſent rot, and die under the clods, or ar leaſt not ſpring up; yet it ſhall ſpring up, and bring forth defired fruir. It is one'great work of the Holy Spirit, to bring the Revelations of Holy Writ to our remembrance, and withal to clear to us the ſenſe of them, and confirm our faith in them, and chiefly quicken us to prattiſe what is our duty. But itis to to be obſerved, that the Spi- rit doth not make revelations of new Notions ; it only brings to our remembrance what Chriſt hath ſajd, and further revealeth whac was before in the word revealed, tho' poſſibly particular perſons were ig- norant of ſuch revelations of the word : ſo things may be new, and newly revealed to us, which in themſelves arenot ſo. There are no new truths, but particular perſons may have new diſcoveries of old truth, which they had beſore miſapprehenſions of. ,
27 Peace I leave with you 9, my peacel give unto you 7 : not as the world giveth, give I unto you 5 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid :
q Peace be with you, or to you, was the Jewiſh common'ſalutati- en, 1 Sams. 25. 6. under that general name, they comprehend all manner of good: With this good wiſh they both ſaluted their Friends when they met them, and took their farewel of them when they left them. Chriſt being now abour to take hls leave for a time of his Diſciples, wiſheth them Peace ; nay, he doth not only wiſh itto them, bur he /:aves it to them, he giveth it them as a legacy, and that another kind of peace, and in another manner than was com- mon. 7 He therefore calls it his Peace revealed in the Goſpel, Eph. 6. 15, purchaſed with his blood, Rom, 5, 1, brought to the Soul by his Spirits by which we are ſealed to the day of Redemption: Chrifts peace 15 either Union, or Reconciliation with God, or the copy of it, which js quiet of conſcience, and afſurance of hislove : Or an union with men by Brotherly love ſo often commended and preſſed by Chriſt, 5 Nor doth Chriſt give this peace as the men of the World give peace, who often wiſh peace earneſtly, never conſidering what
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