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you (c), because they have not known the Father, nor 4 me. But these things have I told you, that when the time fhall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I faid not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you (d). But now I bo my way to him that fent me (e), and none of you 6 afketh me, Whither goeft thou? But becaufe I have faid these things unto you, forrow hath filled your 7 heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter, will not come unto you; but if I depart, 8 I will fend him unto you. And when he is come, he

will reprove the world of fin, and of righteousness, and 9 of judgment: Of fin, because they believe not on 10 me (f); Of righteoufnefs (g), becaufe I go to my 11 Father, and ye fee me no more; Of judgment (b), 12 because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to fay unto you (i); but ye cannot hear 13 them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth; for he fhall not speak of himfelf; but whatfoever he fhall hear,

(c) Violence and perfecution can never be pleafing to the Father of mercies, nor confiftent with Chrift's religion; the principal and diftinguishing commandment of which is, to love one another, to fave men's lives, not to deftroy them.

(d) It was not necellary to tell you these things until now, that I am about to be taken away from you.

(e) Now you underftand that I am to be taken from you by death, you are overcome with forrow,' and make no inquiry about the flate I am to enter upon afterwards.

(f) The Comforter, by his powerful influences, will convince you of the wickedness of the world in rejecting me :

(g) Of the holinefs and juftice of my cause, and the excellency

of my doctrine, because the Father will receive me into glory:

(h). Of my power to deftroy the dominion of fin and Satan, and

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(i) Your prejudices render you at prefent incapable of that full inftruction, which vou fhall receive hereafter through the holy Spirit

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that fhall he fpeak (k): and he will fhew you things to 14 come. He fhall glorify me: for he fhall receive of 15 mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that

the Father hath, are mine: therefore faid I, that he 16 fhall take of mine, and fhall fhew it unto you. A little while and ye fhall not see me (1); and again, a little while and ye fhall fee me, because I go to the Fa17 ther. Then faid fome of his difciples among themfelves, What is this that he faith unto us, A little while, and ye fhall not fee me: and again, a little while, and ye fhall fee me: and, Because I go to the 18 Father? They said therefore, What is this that he faith, A little while? we cannot tell what he faith. 19 Now Jefus knew that they were defirous to afk him, and faid unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I faid, A little while, and ye fhall not fee me : 20 and again, a little while, and ye fhall fee me? Verily, verily I fay unto you, that ye fhall weep and lament, but the world fhall rejoice: and ye fhall be forrow21 ful, but your forrow fhall be turned unto joy. A woman when she is in travail, hath forrow, because her hour is come (m): but as soon as fhe is delivered of the child, fhe remembreth no more the anguish, 22 for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have forrow: but I will fee you again (n), and your heart fhall rejoice, and your joy no man 23 taketh from you. And in that day ye fhall ask me

(k) He will teach you all truth neceffary to your apoftolical office, and the full inftruction of all who will attend to you: and he will aft, as I do, under the authority and direction of the Almighty Father.

(7) In a fhort time I fhall depart out of this world, and in a fhort time 1 fhall return, when the Father fhall raife me up.

(m) So fhall it be in your cafe. The deepeft diftrefs and fharpest pains will be fucceeded by the most lively joy and lafting comfort.

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nothing (0) Verily, verily I fay unto you, Whatfoever ye fhall afk the Father in my name, he will 24 give it you. Hitherto have ye afked nothing in my name: afk, and ye fhall receive, that your joy may 25, be full. These things have I fpoken unto you in proverbs (p) the time cometh when I fhall no more fpeak unto you in proverbs, but I fhall fhew you 26 plainly of the Father (q). At that day ye fhall afk in

my name: and I fay not unto you (r), that I will pray 27 the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth

you, because ye have loved me, and have believed 28 that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave 29 the world, and go to the Father. His difciples faid unto him, Lo, now fpeakeft thou plainly, and speakest 30 no proverb. Now are we fure that thou knowest all things, and needeft not that any man should ask thee (s) by this we believe that thou cameft forth 31 from God. Jefus anfwered them (t), Do ye now 32 believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his

(0) Though I fhall not be prefent to inform you of what you may defire to know, yet the holy Spirit will be your inftructor and director in my ftead; and whatfoever is neceffary for the work of the miniftry, the Father hin.felf will give you, if you afk him in my name, as Mediator.

(p) In parables and allufions. The time draws near, when your prejudices will be removed, and your capacities enlarged; and then I fhall inform you of the will of God more plainly and perfectly.

(9) Concerning the Father.

(r) I need not tell you that I will pray for you; of that you muft

be affured.

(s) He knew that they were defirous to afk (verfe 19), and therefore of his own accord, fatisfied their doubts, and convinced them that he knew what paffed in their minds, though they had not expreffed it.

(t) Be not too confident. ftrength will be feverely tried.

Alas! ye know not how foon your

own, and shall leave me alone (u): and yet I am not 33 alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye fhall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

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I THESE words fpake Jefus; and lift up his eyes to heaven, and faid, Father the hour is come (a); glorify thy Son, that thy Son alfo may glorify thee (b), 2 As thou haft given him power over all flesh, that he fhould give eternal life to as many as thou haft given 3 him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jefus Christ whom thou 4 haft fent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own felf, with the glory which I had with thee before the 6 world was. I have manifefted thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have 7 kept thy word. Now they have known that all things 8 whatfoever thou haft given me, are of thee (c). For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known

(u) Though for faken by all of you, I shall have the support of my heavenly Father's prefence.

(a) Our bleffed Saviour, having forewarned his Apoftles what they were to fuffer on account of their preaching the Gospel, and likewife informed them of the affiftance they fhould receive from the holy Spirit, concludes with this fervent and affecting prayer, immediately before he went to the place where he knew that he was to be betrayed and apprehended.

(6) Glorify me with thy heavenly fupport in my fufferings, that they may effectually promote thy glory in the converfion and falvation of men.

(c) All things that I have had commiffion to teach are truly from thee.

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furely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didft fend me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world (d), but for them which thou 10 haft given me, for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in II them, And now I am no more in the world, but thefe are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name, thofe whom thou haft given me, that they may be one (e), as we 12 are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name (f): thofe that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is loft, but the son of 13 perdition that the fcripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee, and thefe things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in them14 felves. I have given them thy word; and the world

hath hated them, because they are not of the world, 15 even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou

fhouldeft take them out of the world, but that thou 16 fhouldest keep them from the evil. They are not 17 of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify 18 them through thy truth (g); thy word is truth. As

thou haft fent me into the world, even fo have I also 19 fent them into the world. And for their fakes I fanc

(d) I pray not at this time for the unbelieving world, but for thefe thy peculiar fervants, to whom thou haft given grace to become my difciples, and for all who fhall believe on me in future times. See Verfe 20.

(e) That they may be united in affection, and all teach the fame doctrine; as I have fet them the example, by delivering nothing but what was thy divine will, to which I have likewife in all things invariably conformed.

(f) In thy name, i. e. for thee, by the commiffion and autho rity thou haft given me.

Thus the paffages in Pfalm Ixix. and cix. are fulfilled by a fimilar

event.

See Matt. i. 22. ii. 15.

(g) Confecrate and prepare them for the Miniftry of thy moft true and holy word.