u That by Proverbs is meant any dark ſayings, 15 plain from the oppoſition of the Text, of that term, plainly. Chriſt had ſpoken, tho not all things, yet many things to them in dark phraſes, and under many figurative expreſſions; but (faith Me) :he rime cometh, when 1 ſhall ſhew you plainly of the Father ; that time is either Chrilts ſecond coming, or after the.pouring out of the Spirit, which latter is moſt probably what our Saviour doth here intend, becauſe of thoſe great meaſures of knowledge, which at, and after thattime were given one. He had before given to his Diſciples to know che myſteries of the Ling- dow of God, far beyond others, Mat 13. 11. but yet it appears by Chap. 14. and many other Texts, that they had a very confuſed and imperfe& knowledge of the Trinity,and Chriſts oneneſs with the Fa- ther, and their mutual Perſonal relation one ro another.
26 At thatday ye ſhall ask in my name: and I ſay
not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you .
x When the Spirit ſhall come, then you ſhall fully and clearly un- derſtand how to put up your Pfayersto the Father in my Name: hi- therto have you done it imperfe&ly, not fully underſtanding what you did ; but when I ſhall have poured out my Spirit, then you ſhall fully underſtand what it is to Pray in my name, and you ſhall accord- ingly do it : he doth not deny, that he would ask the Father ; for the Scriptureelſewhere plainly expreſſcthit, Rom. 8 34. Heb. 7. 25. but he onlytells them, rhathe ſaid wot ſo ro them, the reaſon of which he tells us in the next word,
27 For the Father himſelf loveth youy, becauſe ye have loved me, and* have believed that I came out from God z.
» | need not tell you, (to beget in you a confidence that your Prayers ſhould be heard) that I will pray to the Father for you; for my Pather himſelf hath ſuch a love for you, that you may from thence aJone conclude, that he will hear you: z and tho my Father's Jove fo yolt be an everlaſting love, which hath no cauſe in the crea- fure;. Yet 25 to the manifeſtations of my Fathers love, they are further drawn forrh by the love which he ſeeth you bear to me, and by your receiving me who am the A:{ſi2h, and came forth from God, to per- form the work of mans Redemption.
28 * I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world a: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father b.
a Tho l be inthe World, yer my original is not fromthe World: Iam one with my Father, equal wich him, God bleſſed for ever. 7 came forth from him, as one ſent in the fulneſs of time to diſcharge the office of the Mef/ias : the World (the place fo called) was neither my Original, nor yet ismy home : bI am preſently leaving the World again, and going fo my Father,
29 His diſciples ſaid unto him, Lo, now ſpeakeſt thou plainly, and ſpeakeſt nol] proverb c. :
c Our Saviour having now plainly told them, that he was leaving the |-
Wor!d, put an end to their inquiries, whither he was going, and ſa- tisfhed them that 1n his former expreſſions of going away, not for a while to bu {cen, he meant no earthly motion ; c this they confeſs had
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no obſcurisy at all in it, Thefe words zre fo intelligible, tc th: is no reaſon for any of us to ask thee any thing about the ſenſe of them.
30 Now are we ſure that * thou knoweſt all and needeſtnot that any man ſhould ask thee 4: by this * 1
* we believe that thot cameſt forth from God. ' Chg 4 This confirmeth us in that Faith or perſwaſion, which we bef 7.8. _ tho it was in us but weak, that indeed thou art come forth __
od.
31 Jeſus anſwered them, Do ye now believe «
e Some read the-words (not as a queſtion) You do now b2l;es, well you believe at laſt ; you had reafon enough to have fore this time. 32 Behold the hour cometh, yea, is now come, * ye ſhall be ſcattered*, every man to his | own f/ ſhall leave me alone : and * yet I am not alone, hec the Father is with me g.
f Tho you profeſs that now you do believe, you had need | your Faith ; there is yer a trying time coming upon you, when vour « Faith will waver, and you who have been ſo long my followers, wi 1 leave me to ſhift for my ſelf, and every one of you ſhall ſhift for Your $i ſelves; this came to paſs preſently after, Mar. 26.56, Thoſe whothink , © they ſtand, had need take heed leſt they fall; .thoſe who think they, © * Faith ſtrongeſt, ought ro be thinking with their ſelves, what the, + " ſhall do, how they ſhal] be able to ſtand in a day of ſharp Try], M. ny in a calm time appear to be Profeſſors, and Believers; who when Affliction and Perſecution ariſfeth fqr the Goſpel ſake, will fall away and leave Chriſt alone : g Yet ſaith our Saviour, 1 am not alone, breayſ; the father is with me. No man is alone, who hath the preſence of G54 with him. Chriſt knew that in all his Sufferings he ſhould haye the Preſence and Aſſiſtance of his heavenly Father.
33 Theſe things I have ſpoken unto you, that jn #'kk me ye might have peaceh. In the world ye ſhall haye & tribulation z : but be of good chear, 1 have overcome ba the world k. (@
h By peace here, is not ſo much to be underſtood, Peace with Gyy: which, yet we have from Chriſt, and through Chriſt, according 0 Rom. 5. 1. Being juſtified by faith, we have peace with Goa,through ur Lord Fejus Chrift, Nor yet peace of conſcience, which is the copy of our Peace with God: As a peace of mind, a quier, ſerene calm teq- per, which indeed is the effe& of the other, as the cauſe; that yoy might not be croubled and diſturbed, neither for my ſake, nor yet for your own. 5 Tho in the world ye meet with tronbles, which yoy will certainly do, becauſe the World hateth you, & Be of gud (ju ( faith he) I have overcome the world ; where by World isto be un« derſtood, all Temptations from it ; whether from the flatteries, or from the frowns and troubles of it. We are ſaid to overcome the World, but we overcome it as Soldiers, fighting under Chrift who is the Captain of our Salvation, and his ViRory is our Vitory, 1 54bn 4- 4.and 5. 4, 5.Chriſt overcame the Prince of the World, and caf him out, as we heard before ; and he hath overcome Sin, and we him, and in the midſt of all Tribulations, are more than Conquer: through him that laved us, Romy 8. 37. This was our Saviours lit Sermon, which we have upon ſacred record in Holy Writ.
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Chrift preparing himſelf for Death,prayeth his Father to glirifie hinaul