John 1

They are not taught of God; they have Christ's Word to enlighten them, but not his Spirit to sanctify them. But, that you should have the inward, as well as the outward teaching, that Christ should anoint you with the heavenly unction of his Spirit, that you can say, as in (John…

1. Christ's person in two natures: 1. Look upon his human nature as incarnate. The Valentinians deny his human nature; but (John 1:14) the Word was made flesh; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. It is spoken of Christ, the promised Messiah.

John 1:12 — To them he gave power to become the sons of GOD. Having spoken of the great points of faith and justification, the next is Adoption:

To consider Christ as he is crowned with all manner of excellencies, does rather stir up admiration and wonder; but Christ looked upon as bleeding and dying is the proper object of our faith: therefore it is called faith in his blood (Romans 3:25). 3. Appropriation, or the apply…

Response. Saint Austin understands it not of every [reconstructed: individual] person, but some of all sorts shall be saved: as in the ark, God saved all the living creatures; not every bird or fish were saved, for many perished in the flood; but all, that is, some of every kind…

The plainer the diamond is, the more it sparkles: the plainer the heart is, the more it sparkles in God's eye. What a commendation did Christ give Nathanael (John 1:47). Behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile.

If a Christian has any assistance in duty, or victory over temptation, he rears up a pillar and writes upon it, Hucusque adjuvabit Deus — Hitherto the Lord has helped me. John the Baptist transferred all the honor from himself to Christ; he was content to be eclipsed that Christ…

In whom dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. It is said, not only Christ was with God before the beginning, but he was God (John 1:1), and (1 Timothy 3:16), God manifest in the flesh. The title of Lord so often given to Christ in the New Testament does answer to the ti…

But what a fearful course is this, that men should thus brutishly go on from day to day, not knowing how to worship God? Well, all such as love their own souls, and would be like to godly Jacob; or (as our Savior Christ said to Nathanael) would be true Israelites, John 1.47, the…

And verse 17. You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: for that same day will I bring your Armies out of the Land of Egypt. And touching the second, that it was a sign of a more heavenly deliverance from the bondage of sin and Satan, Paul tells us plainly, when as he says,…

And Saint John says, That as many as received Christ, to them he gave power to be called the sons of God. And lest any man should think that to receive Christ, is not to believe in Christ; he adds, Even to as many as believe in his name (John 1:12). And therefore faith is fitly…

And therefore as Isaac is called the child of Promise, and said, to be born by promise, Galatians 4:23. So, men regenerate and born to the Church, are said, not to be born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, John 1:13. And Saint James sait…

Some do place faith in the mind, and partly in the will, because it has two parts; knowledge, and affiance: but it seems not greatly to stand with reason, that one particular and single grace should be seated in diverse parts or faculties of the souls. The form of faith is, to a…

The second, that saving faith is a particular assurance, is proved by this, that the property of faith is to apprehend and apply the promise, and the thing promised, Christ with his benefits. (John 1:12) As many, says Saint John, as received him, to them he gave power to be the…

He that hideth his sins shall not prosper: but he that confesses and forsakes them shall finde mercy. 1. Ioh. 1. 9. If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithfull and just, to forgiue vs our sins, and to clense vs from all unrighteousnesse.

So shall it be with Christ when he comes forth (says the Prophet) to the eyes of the world, he shall, as it were, be like a scraggly shrub on a moor's edge. Our Lord had personal and much divine comeliness in him, as we may see (John 1:14), where he says that the Word was made f…

As namely that of (Isaiah 9:6): To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, of whose Kingdom and Government there shall be…

So (Song of Solomon 5:2), By the sleepy bride it is said, It is the voice of my beloved that knocks; and (Psalm 24), last four verses, it's cried, Lift up your heads you gates, and be lifted up you everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in, which is an [reconstructed…

A second way to clear and confirm it, is to consider his works often joined with his name — the works of creation, providence, redemption, and guiding of his church. So we have it (John 1:1): In the beginning was the Word, the substantial Word of the Father, the Son of his love,…

Most part, think faith to be a conceit, a humor, or a guessing, that they think they may have and never know how; but it's a real thing, a coming from our own righteousness, as I said, to His, from a Covenant of Works, to rest on Christ and His righteousness, held forth in the C…

It is impossible that they can suitably esteem of him, and love him, who are not justified by him; and therefore they that believe not on him to justification, are called despisers of him, and traders of the blood of the covenant under foot. And they fall under that sad complain…

(Romans 5:1): Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. (John 1:12): To as many as received Him, He gave power to become the sons of God, even to as many as believe in His name; where the faith that has the promise of justification, and the…

2. That there be an assent to the thing known; as when we know that we are sinners, and that it is the blood of Christ that must cleanse us from sin, we must assent to the truth of these, as Christ says (John 8), If you believe not Moses his writings, how shall you believe my wo…

And yet this same is His complaint (Matthew 23:37): "How often would I have gathered you, and you would not." And in John 1:11 it is said, "He came to his own, and his own received him not." Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum were lifted up to heaven by the Lord's preaching to t…

2. For the time to come study holiness, and take on no more of this burden; always remembering, that when you take on the debt of the least sin, or seek to hoodwink (as it were) the conscience, and to put out the eyes of it, that you may sin the more securely, and with the great…

This is the fourth considerable point, the matter of the answer. Here is a Lord-Speaker from heaven, testifying that the Lord's name shall be, and was glorified: As 1. In Christ's person and incarnation (John 1:14): The word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his…

James commands not such a confession. Daniel's, Ezra's, Peter's confession were some other thing (John 1:20; Acts 19:18; Hebrews 11:13; Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 4:2; Mark 3:6; Joshua 7:19; Daniel 9:4; Romans 10:10; 1 Timothy 6:13; Psalm 32:5; James 5:16; Leviticus 5:5; Leviticus 1…

1. Because this is faith; and the Scripture says, we are justified by faith. 2. We receive Christ by faith (John 1:12). (3.) We receive and embrace the promise by faith (Hebrews 11:11), and were persuaded of them.

Of carnal walking (1 Corinthians 3:3). Yet they are called something more, sons of God (John 1:12; 1 John 3:1). Saints (1 Corinthians 1:1).

Now you must conceive that all worship stands in advancing another, with the debasing of ourselves; we humble ourselves, that we may advance another. Now if our debasement to them be such as is not compatible to a creature, as when we subject our heart and spirits to them; this…

To show you how God is wont to express himself to his people, when we have broken covenant with him, God will say, he will not look at us any more, he will never protect us more, he will neither meddle nor make with us, but will expose us to all evil; now if thereupon we return…

Our Saviour prays the Father, that all those whom he had given him might be one with him, as you and I are one: you in me by your spirit, and I in you, by the same spirit; and this spirit is such as makes not only me, one with you, but them also, one with me; and they also in li…

Of his own will he begat us; it is that therefore to this life by which we are begotten, for all generation is to life, it is of his own will that we are begotten to this life. And the apostle John sets it forth, by the removal and denial of all other causes (John 1:13). We are…

And when they came and saw it they said, We believe, not because of your word, but because we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Christ. This is the proper nature of true life, as soon as they are truly begotten, they beget others of their own kind, no…

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from Heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount; and John also (John 1:14).…

The power of his divine nature was manifested, because it enabled him to continue forty days and nights without eating or drinking anything; the utmost that an ordinary man can fast being but nine days usually. Thus his divinity and humanity are expressed in most, or all of his…

It was not the addition of any glory to Christ which he had not before, but a manifestation of the glory which he had, though obscured under the veil of our flesh, for the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily (Colossians 2:9). And we beheld his glory as the glory of the o…

Peter had a family, and household affairs to mind, for we read in the Gospel that his wife's mother was sick and cured by Christ (Matthew 8:14). He had friends and a brother called Andrew, who was one of the disciples of Christ, left below in the valley (John 1:40). Nay, he forg…

A Son coequal with his Father (John 5:18), the Jews sought to kill him because he said, God was his Father, making himself equal with God, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, his own proper Father. So co-essential, of the same substance with his Father (John 1:1), in the beginning was th…

Their help is not the fruit of our trust in them, but their obedience to God; and it is seen in frustrating the endeavors of Satan and his instruments, and other services wherein Christ employs them. God showed this to Jacob in the vision of the ladder, which stood upon earth, a…

Now this I am persuading to, that they that have found Christ would be so charitable to souls as to communicate the knowledge of him, and the way to enjoy him, to others. Thus does Andrew come to Simon, and Philip to Nathaniel, and both of them were (as a man finding a jewel, an…

For when this article is taken away, there remains nothing else but error, hypocrisy, impiety and idolatry, however much it may seem in outward appearance to be the very truth, the true service of God, and true holiness. Etc. The reason is, because God will or can be known no ot…

Faith therefore in Christ makes us the children of God, and not the law. The same thing witnesses also John in the first chapter (John 1): He gave power to as many as believed in him, to be the children of God. What tongue either of men or angels can sufficiently extol and magni…

Then may charity and good works begin to do their office. Let us learn therefore to discern all laws, yes even the law of God, and all works, from faith and from Christ, that we may define Christ rightly, and know that he is not the law, and therefore he is no exactor of the law…

Christ againe is (as it were) a conduit, or pipe, to conuaie grace from the father to vs. Of his fulnesse we receive grace for grace. Ioh. 1. In him we are complete.

Justifying faith in true manner is defined thus: It is a gift, whereby we apprehend Christ, and his benefits. (John 1:12): to believe in Christ, and to receive Christ, are put both for one. (John 6): faith is the mouth of the soul, whereby we eat the flesh of Christ, and drink h…

If we say we have no sinne, we deceiue our selues. 1. Ioh. 1. 9. The Papists say, that all these places are meant of veniall sinnes.

For he that is sent forth from God, was before he was sent forth. And the sonne is said to be sent forth; because he was with God the father before all worlds, Ioh. 1. 1. and because he came from the bosome of his father, v. 18. Obiect.

Whereby Paul signifies himself and the Galatians that believed in Christ. Believers then are the persons to whom this liberty belongs (John 1:12; 1 Timothy 4:3). And true believers are thus to be discerned.

For Christ is made to vs wisdome,righteousnes—that as it is written, He that gloris, shouldglorie in the Lord: euen to make boast of him all the day long, as the Psalmist speaks. And the reason why Paul professs that he will glorie onely in the Crosse of Christ, is, because Chri…