; had ſenc cur as his Embaſſadors, axcti fill in the preſent renſe. Theſe words were not! . . . futlled TE x r121s 4 As 1.3. he converſed with his FP And * tor their ſakes [ ſanftifie my ſelf Diſ:iples fore! days afrer his ReurreQicn ; bur Chrift was now ſhort-| they alſo might be ſanctified | through the truth 2 ly coming, therefore he ſaith 1 come | And fait he, while i408 in! p FS Part, 131 Th the W:rl?, I [peak thee things; I pur up this prazer, rj;ar the Joy of | a Sacrifice acceptable, and well pleafing in the ſight of God * aud jn. My pcople may nor be diminiſhed by my going f.om ihem, by: deed lanttifying inthe ancient notion of ic urder the Law, dig ordi- 0 tarwita they can no louvger { as hitt;erto ) rejoice in my bodily varily fignifie the ſerting of perſons and things apirt to the { preſence with chen:, they may yer r: joyoe, that I ain aſcended ro my | Service of God, which was done legal/y, by certain ritual Father ; that they land commended to the care of thee my Father, | and ceremontes, and js ſtill done inwardly and ſpirituall
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2 I cake more to be underſtood here, by Chriſts giving his word be ſanfiified. Not only eur Er PPIDels, bur jj the uPro his Diiciples, than his Pr caching the Solpel intheir ears; other. choſen of Chriſt, tha: we ſhould be holy and without blame befor: bin i wife Chriſt had no more given theſe his Diſciples kis word, than he] j,,,, 3 and wichin the purchaſe of Chriſt; hence the Apoſtle fath, FX had given it to many thouſands of others who were yet 18 the World, 5» 25. That he gave himſelf for his Church, that he might janligs mn and whom the World hated nor. The ſenſe therefcre !s, I have ; | not oply Prezched thy word in their ears, but I have opened their
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e Sin of p2raition, none of them bs lo whom thou gaveft me by t ] < as oife, none of tem whom thou gaveſt me © be my Apoſtles, | adding, thy word is Truth ; I a ON ard Goſpe bur on2y Who tho he was my ApojHls, and in that ſenie given to ms, | have Preached ro _—_ Is hr, &, oy mad, yer was never given re by thy Erernal piſt, as one to be by me Ee- | the REOERE ) char S, It 1s 40 t = " Is day the E&:em-d, and brought to Erernal Life and Salvation ; for he was A falſe Prophets, nor like the Do ig bs IE Cs, whi Son of Perdi:iom. We have this term ?pplyed to Antichrilt, 2 Thefſ. | rrue, partly falſe ; butir is ru + c fn inde 2.3. As the Son of Death, 2 Sam. 12. 5. ſignifies one appointed to| Blood of Chris which cleanſeth - f th the hea d1e, or thar deſerveth to die. And the Chi/d of He, Hatth. 23. 15.]15 applied to the conſcience by the Spirit, which is th izgnitech one who deferverh Hell, io the Son of Perdition may <&1-
; 14 I have given them thy word 2, and * the world | cious working of che Holy Ghoſt. Chriſt faith, that for his Diſciple harh hated them, becauſe they are not of the world h
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