I uy oa he ſer aparr himſelf for a Sacrifice for our fins, that hls people might l hearts to receive, and believe it, and bowed their wills .-O 4. COM. Sanflified through the truth 3 char is, by recelying the truth, no: Pliance wirh ir 3 (© as the word dwelleth in their Hearts, is ingrafred| j1 heir cars only, bur in their hearts, in the love of ir a0d bring. pr in 95 _ Bey = —_— the nom 5 5s _ : *] ing forth the fruits of ir in all Holineſs of life and covverfation, ar 1s obſervable, That when ary Soul is give o Cnrift by his Father, a 3 - - Chriſt will moſt certainly fi or laſt 99 unto thar Soul his'word in £0 Neithe1 Pray I for theſe alone = but fo1 themalſo f] thar ſenſe ; rhar is, ſo as it (all receive, believe it, and be turned in-| Which ſhall believe On me through their word r, i of to the likeneſs of it, h And fo- this che World hath hated them, for} 7 Two things are evidenr from this Verſe, x. That Chriſt did nor Li thy word hach made them to be of another Spirir, from carnal, | pray for any Reprobates, not for any that were and ſhould die ue. Rs looſe, and Worldly inen ; they have other atte&jons, other inclina- | levers ;he prayed before thoſe for who aQually did betleve; he Prat. my tions, other deſigns and ſtudies ; they are not of the World z in that eth here ſor them that ſhould believe ; bur we never read that he pray: Hip reipeR, as T am nct of the World : tho in other reſpe&@s not ſa;! ed for any others : Now whether he laid down his life for thoſe for glwy for Chriit as to his Original, was nor of the World, which they were, | Whom he would not pray, lyeth upon them to conſider, who are _ of the Earth, E:rthly. confident, that he died for all and every man. 2, That by perſors ſelf hat thou ſhouldeſt take t1 e,£5ven 10 Chriſt, cannot be underfiood believers as ſuch ; for Chr ior 15 1 pray not that thou ſhouldeſt ta e tnem 'ont of |}. prayeth for thoſe that were no aRual believers, but ſhould be. the | * Mar. 6. the world, hut that thon ſhouldeſt * keep them from [lieve. 3. That faith cometh by hearing ; Chriſt here prajechfor the I'3- the evil &. thoſe thar ſhould believe through their word, thar is, the Apoſile be the 1Joh 5.18 k Chrift doth nor pray that his Father wou!g rake up his Saints | Preaching the Goſpel. | : thou out of this finſul and troubleſome Worid into Heaven, becauſe he] 2r * That they all may be one, as * thou Father, at ers, an —_ that they wee wt of - * cody - 1a wh mg d;'in me, and1 in thee 7 3 that they alſo may be on in! emec ur ne prays that the Lo We ; ſ e Evil One O | . , ſome thaw? have ir cranſlaced) or from the evil thing ; by which we |S © * that the world may believe that thov haſt ſents 25
muſt nor underſtand wha: is penally and affliively evil, bur on!
E what js finfully evil: ang by his example he hath directed us how | 7 Our Savjour here prayeth on the behalf of ſuch as 'hould beljerey we ought to pray ; not for death, nor abſolutely for a deliverance {on him, Thar they might b2 one in Faith, and ene 18 ororherly loft, from che evils, and miſeries of this life 3 bur char we May be delj- | Whoſo confidereth this 45 2 piece of Chriſt's prayer for Believer
vered from choſe remprations to fn, to which a multicude of ſharp tryals and afflitions will expoſe even the beſt of men.
16 They are not of the world, even as Iam not of | nnees, £20nor bur nouriſh ſome hopes, ( how improbable ſocrri
the world /.
7 This is the ſame thing which he had Gaia before, wer. 14. which he again repezrech, either to fix ic in their memories, that they call- ng it co their minds, miphr direft their lives accordingly, or be thereby forrificd 2gainſt the hatred and malice of the World ; for which purpoſe ke told thery fo before, Chep. 15. 2 9. ad again jn this Chapter, v2, 14, (ſee the Notes on Verſe I4.
* Ch.9.46. . k 7 »auCtifie them through thy truth »* : thy word IS Truth z,
”m It 8 doubted amongſt Interpreters, whether Sanfiſying in this place, fiprifieth the confecrating, depuring, or letting the Apoſtles apart, and preparing chem for the work of the Miniſtry jn which they were to be employed ; as rhe word ſignifi-s, 7er. 1. 5. or the
rengthening and confirming their Habits of Grace, ſo as they mighe be able to encounrer the remprations they ſhould mect with from th= hatred or oppofition of the World ; or 3 the perfe&ing of them in Holineſs. Mr. Calu;y faith, our Saviour here Prayeth, _ that God would *PPropritte them unto himſelf: 7 and he ſ:,eweth how this js done, through, or in the trath; that is, ( ſome ſay through thy truth ingraven, ang impricted upon their hearts by thine Holy Spirit, which was promiſed to lead and to guide them in. to all ruth, Cha). 15, 13. ( lay others ) through thy Spirit, which in. dred is the Sandtiiier ; and we have met with ewice, called, The Sp1. "ot of Trith, Cha). 14. 159, Some ſay, Senflifie them in thy Truth, 5 80 More than SanRific them truly, in oppoſition to thar lega] Sandtification of Pr telts, ©. of which we read in the Books of Ex. 0445 and Leviticis, Others would have ir to thy Truth, that is,
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and that St, Paul hardly wrote one Epiſtle to che Primitive Apoſidb 7. fuitabe
|cal Churches, jn which he did not preſs this by moſt potent Av ru. an | err P | appears ar preſent ) thar all the ſincere Diſciples of Chriſt, ſhall o 04, wi day arrive ar the keeping of the Unity of he Spiric ir: the bond from þ
Peace 3 and likewiſe look upon themſelves in poinr of duty, obliel ofren to endeavour jr, To which pitch of perfeQtion potfibly Chit "0 him mighr ſoon arrive, if Superiours weuld after the Example of the 4p n &2 1 ſtle, Ads 15.28, lay upon their inferijors no more chan neceſſary thin 5 work 4nd equals would learn to contend for truth in love, and to walk vlih cheir brethren ſo far as they have attained ; and as ro other thing! to ſorbear one anther in lov; and wherein any of their brerhren are otherwiſe minded than they are, ro wait till God ſhall revel! i , chem, Phil. 3. 15. s Bur this is nor all the Union which an prayeth ſor; he alſo prayeth thar they mighr be one in the Fatheran