Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1865. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... A DISCOURSE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true Cod, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast tent.--John XVII. 8. This chapter contains Christ's last prayer with his disciples, after his farewell sermon, which began after Judas his departure, John xiii. 31, and ends at the end of the 16th chapter. The design of his sermon and that of his prayer was one and the same; his discourse to them was, that they might have peace in him, John xvi. 88; that they might acquiesce in him for peace with God ;* that peace of conscience was only to be possessed by the knowledge and love of Christ. His prayer for them in their hearing was, that they might have a firm and full joy, ver. 18; that they might have an antidote against all their fears and troubles they should meet with in the world, and a strong foundation for their own supplications to God. Zanchy calls it the foundation of the church from the beginning of the world to the end of it. It always had, and always will have, its efficacy for every believer; it is a copy left upon the earth of what he doth intercede for as an advocate in heaven. By an inspection into it, we may know what Christ is doing above; for it was that his people might have a full joy, a strong cordial in all afflictions, desertions, temptations. Some think it to be the same with that prayer in the garden; but that opinion hath no firm foundation.f (1.) The matter of the prayer is different. In this, our Saviour prays for his own glorification, for assistance in his approaching passion, and an unloosing afterwards the bands of death by an happy resurrection; in that, ha prays for a removal of the cup which was brewed for him. (2.) The gesture is different. In this, he lifts up his eyes to heaven, in toke...
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