the Son ; that is, thar they might believe; for Faith is that _— by which we are uvited to, and made one with God and Gn others interpret ir of Obedience, or ſuch things wherein God : ther and Chriſt are one, ec. For, altho ſo many as arc _ to Life ſhall believe, yer that they might believe, is A - er: @# This our Saviour prayeth for, for the ſurcher glory © Pe which is that which he meaneth by the Worlds believing that
) [had ſent him; there being no greater evidence that Ghvift is tit
true Meſſerh, than the general acceprance of the Do&rine of _— (pel, which he brought throughcur the World ; for who cat —_ that a new DoGrine brought into the World by one of _e Bl -ſcpsdf putation than Chriſt had in the World, and propagated by Ny _ a greater quality than the Apoſtles were, ſhould _—__ wa, <ft part of the World, if he that firſt introduced ic, ha —_— irft ſent by God into the World, and che Apoiles had pocaclind craordinarily influenced and afliſtcd by God as tothe Vrop4Z
to the Preaching of thy Goſpel. Bur our Tranllation ſeems to cms
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2 And the glory which thou haſt given me, I have piven them 1: : that they may be one, even as we are
CHAM AV.
Chriſt goeth into a Garden with his Diſciples, nt. where Tudaes comer; % betray him, 2, 3. The band of Soldiers at Chriſt's Speech fallerh
glory here, ſome underſtand the Heavenly glory ; but then | #o the Earth, 4—9 Peter ſmiterh off Malchs's Ear, whevefore
Oneneſs mentioned in the latter part of the | Chriſt rebuketh hi T0 >
they mult underſtand the Pp: | rift rebuketh Sim, 10, 11. Chriſt is brought before Aunas, th a bo of the Union which the Saints ſhall have with Chriſt and his | Before Caiphar, 12—14- Two Diſciples fo — Chrif. ng +aog Father in glorv, 1N another World. Others underſtand the Divine | erh him, 15 —18. Caiphas Examinerh Chriſt concerning his Dy- Nature, of which the Apoſtle, 2 Per. 1. 4. faith, believers are made | &rin,. 19—21. One of the Officers ſmiterh Chri ff, whom "be re.
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his ſeemeth to come nearer, for the more men and wo- | proverh for it, 22——24. Peter dexicth him twice Mr, 25—27
men are made partakers of thar, the more they will ſtody the unity Chriſt is brought before Pilate, who enquireth after his Accyſation, of the Sp?rit- Others underſtand 7 he power of working Miracles, by and declareth him innocent, and witld hawye veleald him, 28—36 hich Chriſt is ſail to have manifeſted his glory, Chap. 2. 11. and | Bur the Fews require Barrabbas, 40. ; ”
the effet of this Power, Chap. II. 40. iS called the Glery of God.
Others underſtand rhe Preaching of the Goſpel, in which che mini-| Having ſo largely diſcourſed the Hiſtory of our Saviours Paſſion, \-ation of the Spirit #5 glorious, 2 Cor. 3- 8. and the faithful Miniſters | in our notes upon the rwenty fixth, and ewentv ſeventh Chapters of a the Goſpel are called :he Glory of Chri#?, 2 Cor. 8. 23, w Our Ma:thew, where (to make the Hiſtory entire) we compared what
caviour either again repeats his prayer, that they might be one; or
the other Evangeliſts alſo have about ir ; I ſhall refer the Reader ro
elſe declareth that he had communicated his power, his glory to the notes upon thoſe two Chapters, and be the ſhorter in the notes
chem, that they might be one, as he and his Father are one. 23 I in them x, and thou 1a me, that they may be
made perfect in one y, and that the world may know \\
that thou haſt ſent me, and haſt loved them as thou
haſt loved me z.
x 1 in them, not only as my Divine Nature 1s united to their fleſh, bur as I have made them partakers of my Spirit, and of the Divine Nature ; as I have loved them with a ſpecial and peculiar love, and am the Head, they the Members; 1 the Vine, they the Branches : 9 and thou in me, the fulnsſs of the Godhead dwelling in me bodily ; 1 being the brightneſs of thy glory, the expreſs image of thy Perſon, Thou alſo doing whatloever I do, and accepting and ap- proving of it, as Chap. 14. 10, 2 that they may be made perfect in | one, (the Greek is, &s £y into one) In one Body, whereof Chriſt is lage was at the foot of Mount O/ive7; and che garden mentioned,
upon this and the following Chaprers.
forth with his diſciples over the brook Ce- 3*- dron a, where was a garden, into the which he entred, and his diſciples 6.
a Matthew hath nothing of theſe diſcourſes, or Prayer, which we have had in the four Jaſt Chapters; no more have any of the other Evangeliſts, who yet all mention his going into the Mount of Olives, afrer his celebration of his laſt Supper. Marth. 26. 30. Mark 6. 26. Luke 22. 39, Our Evangeliſt fairh he went over the Brook Cearor: into a garden. The others ſay nothing of a garden, but mention his coming to & place called Gerhſemanz, It is probable, that this Vil.
was a garden near that Village, and belonging to ir, (for they had nor
Chap. XVIII
Hen Jeſus had ſpoken theſe words *, he went * Mat 24.
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| theef; but * I have known thee g, and * theſe have
the Head ; which body is the Church, keeping an unitv of Faith
All believing the ſame things in matter of faith, and thofe things no other than what thou haſt revealed, and I have revealed 'as from thee, a This, O Father ! will be a great evidence, both that thou hat ſent me, when the World ſhall ſee thee bowing mens hearts to the obedience of the truth of rhy Goſpel, and that thou haft loved
them with a tender and everlaſting love, as thou haſt loved me.
loveſtme before the foundation of the world 4.
b Here our Saviour willeth his Diſciples Erernal Life ; or rather prayeth to his Father, that he would preſerve his Diſciples unto, and at laſt beſtow upon them Eternal Life and Salvarion ; fo as the
24.* Father I will, that they alſo whom thou haſt given me, be with me where Iamb; that they may be- hold my glory c which thou haſt given me : for thou