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3. The saints at death shall not only have a sight of God, but shall enjoy the love of God; there shall be no more veil on God's face, nor his smiles checkered with frowns, but God's love shall discover itself in all its radiant beauty and fragrant sweetness. Here the saints pra…

7. Is recumbency and trust peculiar to God the Father? This is given to Christ (John 14:1): You believe in God, believe also in me. Christ must needs be God, not only that the divine nature might support the human from sinking under God's wrath, but also to give value and weight…

Christ has prayed for this (John 17:24): Father, I will that all those whom you have given me, be with me where I am. And he is said to go before to prepare a place for believers (John 14:2). Christ is called the Head, and the Church is called his body (Ephesians 1:22-23).

Was Christ incarnate, was he made like us, let us be made like him in holiness of life. No temptation could fasten upon Christ (John 14:30). The prince of this world comes, and has nothing in me.

Did we indeed come in our own name in prayer, it were presumption, but Christ intercedes for us in the [reconstructed: force] and efficacy of his blood, now, to be afraid to come to God in prayer, is a dishonor to Christ's intercession. Fifth Fruit: The sending the Comforter (Jo…

In Christ we see some sparklings of the divine glory; in him there is the exact resemblance of all his Father's excellencies. The wisdom, love, and holiness of God the Father shine forth in Christ (John 14:9): He that has seen me has seen the Father. 3. Inference: If God be a Sp…

Your comforts delight my soul; that is, the comforts which distill from the alembic of the promises. 2. The Spirit of God (who is called [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], the Comforter (John 14:26)) does sometimes drop in this golden oil of joy into the soul; the Spirit whispers to a…

What is that? 1. He will give us peace in trouble: when a storm without, he will make music within: the world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble: He will send the Comforter, who as a dove brings an olive branch of peace in his mouth (John 14:16). 2.…

2. The bringing Israel out of the house of bondage, was a type of their deliverance from Satan. Thus men naturally are in the house of bondage, they are enslaved to Satan: Satan is called the Prince of this World (John 14:30), and the God of this World (2 Corinthians 4:4), becau…

As in the wax we see the print of the seal. Set the eyes of your faith on Christ-God-Man (John 14:9). He that has seen me, has seen the Father.

Exodus 20:6 And keep my Commandments. Love and obedience, like two sisters, must go hand in hand: indeed this is a good evidence of our loving God (John 14:21): If you love me, keep my Commandments. Probatio dilectionis est exhibitio operis.

2. God did not make the world to be a place of mansion for us, we are not to abide here for ever. Heaven is the mansion-house (John 14:2), the world is only a passage-room to eternity; the world is to us as the wilderness was to Israel, not to rest in, but to travel through to t…

How many live in the region of death, where this bright star of Scripture never appeared. We have this blessed book of God to resolve all our cases, to chalk out a way of life to us (John 14:22). Lord! How is it you will show yourself to us, and not to the world?

To begin with the first words of the Preface. (1.) Our Father.] Father is sometimes taken personally; John 14:28. My Father is greater than I: but Father in the text is taken essentially for the whole Deity. This title, Father, teaches us to whom we must address ourselves in pra…

Nor does Christ only remit sin organically, as ministers do, by virtue of a power delegated to them from God; but Christ does it by his own power and authority. (2.) Is God the Father the adequate object of faith, is he to be believed in, so is the Son (John 14:1). (3.) Does ado…

Julian in one of his epistles writing to Arsatius, says, That the Christian religion did much flourish by the sanctity and obedience of them that professed it. 5. By doing God's will we show our love to Christ; (John 14:21) He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is th…

Christians, the trumpet is ready to sound; an eternal jubilee is at hand when a freedom from sin shall be proclaimed; your coronation day is coming; it is but putting off your clothes, and laying your head upon a pillow of dust, and you shall be enthroned in a kingdom, and inves…

Whither shall I go from your Spirit? John 14:26. But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.

(4) Revelation 8:3, 4; Hebrews 4:14, 15, 16; Chap. 6:20; Chap. 10:20, 21, 22. (5) John 14:13; Chap. 15:16, 22, 26; Ephesians 3:14, 15. Qu. 36. May not the Church in the solemn worship of God, and celebration of the ordinances of the Gospel, make use of, and content itself in the…

Q. Is Christ the only Mediator? or are there not others that may be mediators also? A. Properly there is no other mediator between God and man but Christ only (1 Timothy 2:5; John 14:6). Q. Who gave Christ a commission or calling to the office of a Mediator?

Q. What is the teaching of the holy Spirit? A. It is that inward work of the holy Ghost upon the soul, whereby the outward teaching is made efficacious and powerful for opening the understanding and humbling the heart to embrace the truth and will of God (John 16:13; John 14:26;…

Q What was the place to which he did ascend? A. The third heaven, far above this earth, and all these inferior and visible heavens (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51; Acts 1:11; John 14:1-2; Ephesians 4:10). Q. Was this ascension of Christ a true and real mutation and change of place, or o…

Q. Whether must we pray to God directly and immediately, or through a Mediator? A. Only through the mediation of Jesus Christ (John 14:6 & 16:23; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 7:25). Q. What are the parts of prayer?

Q. How many are the persons in the Godhead? A. They are three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost (Matthew 3:16-17 & 28:19; John 14:16-17 & 15:26; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Galatians 4:6; 1 John 5:7). Q. Whether are these three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost several, a…

1. A City has many houses, greater, less, and for all sorts. So in heaven also, there are many mansions, John 14:2. Places of glory for all men: none need to fear that he shall not have fullness of joy, and perfect happiness.

Two or three disciples of Christ, gathered together in his name, (that is, by his power, authority, and royal commission) wherever, (whether in the mountain, or in the desert, or in ship, or in the dungeon) there will Christ be in the midst of them, to hear and grant their petit…

Your Judge to acquit you (John 12:48). And if the love of Christ draw you to keep all his Commandements (though in the world you meet with affliction for his sake; yet in Christ you shall find peace) for the Father, Son, and Spirit will dwell in your heart, and take it for the S…

And this can be from no other principle but the Spirit and divine power of God, giving testimony thereby to the Lord Christ whose disciples they are. Our right to, our privilege in, and evidence of our being the disciples of Christ, depends on our mutual love (John 14:34, 35). "…

Therefore this reconciliation and peace with God, is a great part of this Gospel-perfection. So our Savior testifies (John 14:27): "Peace," says he, "I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives, I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, neither let it b…

And it is now by Christ alone that we have an access in one Spirit to the Father (Ephesians 2:18). He is the only way of going to him (John 14:6). And it is in and by his blood that he has consecrated a new and living way to the holy place (chapter 10:19, 20).

But this difference principally consists herein, that under the New Testament the Holy Ghost has graciously condescended to bear the office of the Comforter of the Church. That this unspeakable privilege is peculiar to the New Testament, is evident from all the promises of his b…

For in their Judaism they were sufficiently taught Faith in God, and needed not to have been instructed therein as a part of the Doctrine of Christ. And there is a distinction put by our Savior himself, between that Faith in God which they had, and the peculiar Faith in himself…

(2) As to our future entrance into glory. Under this capacity as a Forerunner, it belongs to him to prepare mansions for us in his Father's house, whither he is gone, and which he has promised to do (John 14:23). He prepares mansions for us, and he prepares us for those mansions…

He did not undertake any Office for the Church to lay it aside while he lives, until the whole Design and work of it be accomplished. And therefore he tells his Disciples, that because he liveth they shall live also (John 14:19). For while he lives, he will take care of them.

And unbelief is a refusal to come to him, You will not come to me that you may have life. Faith in God through him, is coming to the Father by him (John 14:6); so to come to God by Christ, is through him to believe in God (1 Peter 1:21). 2. Our access to God in his worship, is o…

And he may be received either as to personal inhabitation, or as to spiritual operations. In the first way the world cannot receive him (John 14:17), where the world is opposed to true believers, and therefore these here intended were not in that sense partakers of him. His oper…

Yes, does not your judgment still stand for a spiritual way of living, though you cannot regulate, and command your affections as you would, but are daily brought into captivity to the law of sin, as he complains (Romans 7:23). 3. If Christ live in you, he will sometimes manifes…

Here note, that true love springs out of a seen, felt enmity against God, and all of God, which the soul has been greatly humbled, and abased for. If you love him, you will love his holiness, his graces; and seek to keep all his Commandments: see John 14:21. He that has my Comma…

Therefore if we would believe in the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost, we must know them in part (John 17). This is life eternal to know you the only God, and whom you have sent Jesus Christ (John 14:17). The world cannot receive the spirit of truth because it has neither seen him nor…

Answer: It must not be made in the name of any creature, but only in the name and mediation of Christ. John 14:14. If you ask any thing in my name I will do it. A man is not to present his prayers to God in any worthiness of his own merits.

It is good to prevent all visible scandals and exceptions against our persons. I observe this, because the Scripture does elsewhere (John 14:22), Judas says to him, not Iscariot, How is it that you will manifest your self to us, and not to the world? The Scripture would not have…

But blessed be God, this great heart-establishing truth is evidently revealed in Scripture. Luke 23:43; you have Christ's promise — John 14:3: 'I will come and receive you to myself.' O what a change will a few moments make upon your condition!

They have gotten to heaven a few years before you, and is that a cause for mourning? Would not your child, if he were not ignorant of your state, say as Christ said to his friends just before his death when he saw them cast down at the thought of parting: If you loved me, you wo…

Elisha that waited upon Elijah, and poured water upon his hands, shall do greater miracles than his master. And the Apostles shall do greater works than Christ (John 14:12), that the world may know that God is not tied to any means that men count excellent, that all creatures ar…

A company of Jews and Gentiles believed by hearing the Word preached, and receiving of it (Acts 14:1). The world receives not the Spirit, because they seek it not (John 14:17). We in preaching, can do nothing; it is the Spirit that must do it.

The fifth question is, in whose name prayer must be made. Answer: It must not be made in the name of any creature, but only in the name and mediation of Christ (John 14:14): If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. A man is not to present his prayers to God, in any worthine…

This is the sum of those gifts, which Christ received for men, even for the rebellious, at his ascension. This is the sum of the benefits Christ obtains for men by his intercession; John 14:16, 17: "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abi…

Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?" (2 Corinthians 6:14-16). Furthermore, evangelical theology is taught by the Holy Spirit and by Him alone: "The Holy Spirit will teach you all things," (John 14:26). Hence all the children of the church are taught of God (Isaiah 54…

And now the soul, laboring under the burden of sins, groaning and sinking, gasps more and more daily for deliverance, for welcome mercy, for righteousness, for acceptance before God. The Holy Spirit was therefore promised by Christ to call back to mind and to suggest to sinners…

Whatever is done in them beyond His prescription is done without His authority (Matthew 28:18-20). X. Sixthly, to these assemblies gathered in His name He graciously promised His presence through the Holy Spirit until the consummation of the age (Matthew 28:20; John 14:15, 16, 1…