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-. -rder totheir planting, ordering, and governing the Church roy _ Chriſt had not while he was with them, acquainted th , mich and people-were to expeCt from the Apoſtle, upon whom cor irt ſhould come 1n the days of Pentecoft, and fo influence them, ys Y thoſe things they ſhould nor beat a loſs to underſtand the Will "£ God, which they ſhould communicate unto others; and they: * »rto look upon what the Apoſtles ſo revealed, as the mind of Chiſt: « for the holy Spirit ſhould not ſpeak meerly from himſelf, but 5 om Chriſt, with whom he was eſſentially one; as alſo from the Father, ? whatſoever the Father and the Son willed he ſhould com- nunicare, that he ſhould reveal to the Apoſtles : z And he ſhall reveal co you things that are to come, being in you the Spirit of Prophecy. The Apoſtles in their Epiſtles, and in the book of Revelation, fhew- ed not indeed all things, bur many things which were, and are to come fo pals : ;
14 He ſhall glorifie me 4, for he ſhall receive of mine, and ſhall ſhew it unto you b. __
3 That is, he ſhall make me famons in the World; as by the ex- eraordinary gifts which he ſhall difpence and give out, fo particularly by ſhewing you things to come : 5 for he ſhall guide and lead you in- rono other truth, but that which I have revealcd, or which it is my will he ſhould make known and reveal. -
* All things that the: Father hath, are minec : therefore ſaid I, that he ſhall take of mine, and ſhall
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; All the Divine Z/?nee, Wiſdom, Power, which is in the Father, are mine: I am in all things that concern the Deity, one, and equal with the Father ; 4 and that was the reafon that I ſaid, that he ſhould take of mine, and ſhew it to you; which 1s the ſame as if T had ſaid, He ſhalleake of my Fathers, and ſhall ſhew it to you ; for all thar the Ether hath, is mine ; I and my Father are one in Eſſence, Wiſdom, Power, Oc.
16 A little while and ye ſhall not ſee mee, and zeain, a little while and ye ſhall ſee me, becauſe I go to
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e Imuſt die, and fo for two or three days you ſhall not ſee me; f but after that ye ſhall ſee me again, when I ſhall be riſen from the dead. But becauſe of the laſt words, becauſe 1 go to the Father, which ſeem to give a reaſon of the firſt clauſe, poſſibly by rhe /:rrle while ficſt mentioned, our Saviour means the whole time, from the ſpeak- ing of thoſe words to his Aſcenſion into Heaven ; for all that time was not more than ſix weeks ; and by the /i::l: while mentioned in the Jatter part of the verſe, our Saviour intends the whole time from his Aſcenſion, untill his coming to Judgment, and ſo the reaſon is proper which is added, Becauſe 1 go to the Father ; for being ſo Aſcended,and fat down at the right hand of God, we are told that there he maſt ſir, till God hath made all his enemies his footſtool ; and by the Apoſtle, that the laſt enemy to be deſtroyed is Death, and 4# 3. 21. Whom the heavens muſt receive, wntil the times of theveſtitution of all things, "_- God hath ſpoken by the mouth of his holy Prophets fince the world
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17 Then ſaid ſome of his diſciples among themſelves, Whats this that he aith unto us, A little while, and ye ſhall not ſee me: and again, A little while and ye ſhall ſee me: and, becauſe I go to the Father ? g.
g Chriſt had uſed much the ſame expreſſion to the Jews, CHap. J 33. Tet 4 little while I am with you; he had ſpoke the ſame to his Diſciples, Chap. 13. 33. yet it is plain from this 17. wer. that his Diſciples did not underſtand him. What need have the beſt of us of the Tlominations of the bleſſed Spirit, rightly to conceive of, and un- derſtand » cog things ? Theſe DoQrines of his Death, Reſurre#i. " Aſcenſton, and coming to Judgment, our Lord had inculcated to hs Diſciples, not only in the two Texts afore mentioned, bur alſo Cray, 8. 21, 22» and 12. 33, 36. and 14. 2, 4» 12, 28+, and in this Chapter, Vere. $. Jo
18 They ſaid therefore, What is this that he faith, Alittle while? we cannot tell what he ſaith h.
þ Still they do not underſtand what he meant. Who ſhall hereafter arrogate to mans reaſon or underſtanding a power to comprehend Spiritual myſteries ? Had not the Diſciples reaſonable Souls? will ny faythey had nomind to underſtand them ? certainly none can ſa ſo. Some Jay the fault of the Diſciples not underſtanding theſe tings, upon the obſcurity of our Saviour's phraſe, and his Parabo- _ expreſſion of them : others in their ignorance of our Saviour's
eſurretion from the dead; others in their not underſtanding the — of time; bur certainly it is beſt imputed to the Diſci- p es inability to conceive of theſe chings, and the prejudices of their mY error concerning the Temporal Kingdom of the Meſjias.
the where it will, the weakneſs of the Diſciples may be reaſon- : Ten not to be greater than is incident to the beſt of men ; mm *mey were fo dull of hearing and underſtanding, we may rea-
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| 19 Now Jeſus knew that they were deſirous to ask ok and faid unto them, Do ye enquire among your cs of that I ſaid, A little while and ye ſhall not ſee
qt fn again, A little while and ye ſhall ſee me k ?