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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…

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.

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.

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…

The fourth and last way of confirmation of this great truth is drawn from the worship which is due to him, and has been given to him. He is the object of faith (John 14:11): You believe in God, believe also in me. He is the object of prayer (Acts 7:59): They stoned Stephen, call…

And will, or can, folks expect that for which they have no promise? The Scripture is plain and peremptory in this, as namely (Acts 4:12), there is no other name under heaven whereby a sinner can be saved, but by the name of Jesus; he is the door (John 10), the way, the truth, an…

This commandment, says he (John 10:18), have I received of my Father, to wit, that I should lay down my life for my sheep. And most emphatically he says (John 14:13): as my Father gave me commandment, even so — mark, even so, most exactly, in conformity to the commandment — do I…

Coming to God by Christ in this sense is to walk, as it were, on Christ's sufferings as a bridge, and to have no other place or ground to stand or walk on to God but this. Again (John 10), Christ calls Himself the door: "I am the door" — and (John 14), to the same purpose, He is…

1. For private mercies. 1. Look to the beginning and growth of our spiritual life, and to the pouring out of the Spirit, it is made the fruit of Christ's intercession (John 14:16): "I will pray the Father, and he shall send the Comforter"; and (John 16): "If I go not away the Co…

4. There is an improvement of Christ's Intercession, when anything is obtained, whether it be a mercy in preventing such and such a stroke, or the bestowing of such and such a favor; and that is, when Faith derives not that mercy from, nor attributes it to, its own praying, thou…

This is even as if a man should credit his able Advocate with the managing of his cause, although he cannot (to speak so) [reconstructed: vouch for his own tale], nor express himself satisfyingly to himself in it. Hence, we have these words often (John 14 and 16): Whatever you a…

Yet there was an actual resting on him by faith, and their prayers were no doubt accepted of God, he not being so distinctly known to be the intercessor as now he is; and therefore there is required a more distinct use-making of him now, and not a resting on him indefinitely, bu…

3. If there be an ill and very necessitous case; or if there be challenges, and some commotion, discomposure and disquiet be in the spirit, there is readily little respect had to Christ; if quietness, and calmness be, there is also hazard of sitting down on that, and we readily…

And though the godly do steadfastly believe their salvation is in a castle, above losing; yet in reason, sin bringing broken bones, (Psalm 51:10), a sad cloud, the damming up of a spring of Christ's love spread abroad in the heart, a temporary hell in the soul, it must be sorrow…

2. (John 1:16) And of his fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. When he ascended to heaven, he sent down the Holy Ghost, (John 14:17) he dwells in you, and shall abide in you. (John 16:13) He will guide you in all truth — he will show you things to come.

How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? (Romans 10:14). It is true, the word, the works of God, are not the principal object of faith, nor objectum quod; faith rests only on God, and the Lord Jesus (John 14:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:8). Your faith toward God (1 Pet…

5. All within the visible Church, have means sufficient in their kind, in genere mediorum externorum, to save them. 6. As none can be saved by the light of nature, nor ever any used, or could use it so far forth, as to improve it for their sufficient preparation, to receive the…

What? Mansions are nothing, many mansions are little; indeed many mansions in Christ's Father's house are created chips of happiness, and of blood and kin to nothing; if they be created, [reconstructed: yet] we want himself, and I should refuse heaven if Christ were not there, t…

And accordingly Christ demeaned himself in it, not at all looking at the Jews or their malice, but at his Father's command and intent in it. And therefore when he was to arise to go to that place where he should be taken: 'As the Father gave me commandment, so do I; arise, let u…

1. That the great end and purpose of that his ascending, the errand, the business he ascended for, was to prepare and provide a place for us and to make way for our coming there. This he assures his disciples of, John 14:2: 'In my Father's house are many mansions; I go to prepar…

And from this it is that Christ has as much work of it still in heaven as ever, though of another kind: he dealt with justice here below to satisfy it and here got money enough to pay the debt, but in heaven he deals with mercy. Therefore all the grace he bestows on us he is sai…

It must never be said, The Spirit of the Lord is departed from Him, who is the Sender and Bestower of the Holy Ghost upon us. And if the Spirit once coming upon his members abides with them for ever, (as Christ promises, John 14:16) then much more does this Spirit abide upon Chr…

Wherein he shows you, that as we do no good, so we can do no good, not a good thought, nor a good word, nor a good work comes from such a man all his days; and all our speeches are rotten and unsavory, not any spiritual life in most seemingly best duties; we are not able to spea…

I answer 1. Some conceive that the devil tempted Christ all the forty days, but then he tempted him invisibly, as he does other men, striving to inject sinful suggestions; but he could find nothing in him to work upon (John 14:30). But at forty days' end he takes another course,…

3. Though this was a lie, yet here is the color of the lie. God permits that men sometimes by indirect means to become great in honor and dignity in this world; all which are done by the instinct of Satan, and his help: and evil men often succeed in their attempts, and from henc…

2. Our duty exactly stated with convenient motives to enforce it. Not only the comfort of man is provided for, but also our subjection to God, and that upon the freest and most comfortable terms, that we should serve him in love, and glorify, and please him, that we may be happy…

This is your hour, and the power of darkness. So (John 14:30), The prince of this world comes and has nothing in me. Satan shall join with the Jews to destroy me, but they shall find nothing to lay to my charge; nor indeed have they power to do me any hurt, but that in obedience…

This is the third direction; let your prayers be warranted by the Word. 4. Improve your advocate (John 14:13). Whatever you ask in my name, that will I do: To ask anything in his name is not, rudely, customarily, or perfunctorily to conclude with these words, Through Jesus Chris…

Therefore to teach the law and to work miracles, are particular benefits of Christ, for the which he came not principally into the world. For the Prophets, and especially the Apostles did greater miracles than Christ did (John 14). Seeing then that Christ has overcome the law in…

For hardness of heart had overspread the nation of the Jews, and they had rejected and crucified the Lord of life. And thus, that is verified which Christ says, that his Disciples believing in him, should do greater things, than he had done (John 14:12), for he by preaching did…

John. Where Christ promiss to give his spirit to his Disciples,to teach them all things, Ioh. 14. 26. and to led them into all truth, Ioh. 16. 13. Now these promises directly, and properly, concerne the Apostles: and they are here verified in Paul.

For he prayed for the sending of the spirit, and it is accomplished. Read (John 14:16). And it is a superfluous doctrine, to teach the real presence of the flesh of Christ in the Sacrament.