John 16

Such as pretend to have a light or revelation above the word, or contrary to it, never had their teaching from Christ (Isaiah 8:20). 2. Christ teaches these sacred mysteries, inwardly, by the Spirit (John 16:13). The world knows not what it is (1 Corinthians 2:14): The natural m…

As the farmer breaks the clods, then casts in the seed; so God by the convincing work of the law breaks a sinner's heart, and makes it fit to receive the seeds of grace. Such as were never convinced, were never called (John 16:8). He shall convince the world of sin.

The word is truth (John 17:17). And the Spirit guides in all truth (John 16:13). The Word's teaching, and the Spirit's leading agree together.

The joy of the Lord is your strength. 2. Spiritual joys are inward; they are heart-joys (John 16:22). Your heart shall rejoice.

Have we faith? By holiness we are made like Christ; by believing we are made one with Christ, and being in Christ, we have peace (John 16:33). 2. True peace flows from subjection to Christ; where Christ gives peace, there he sets up his government in the heart (Isaiah 9:7): Of h…

How glad are children when they are going home? This was Christ's comfort at death, he was going to his Father; (John 16:28) I leave the world and go to the Father; and (John 20:17) I ascend to my Father. If God be our Father we may with comfort at the day of death resign our so…

The Hebrew word to repent, Nicham, signifies Consolari, to take comfort. John 16:21: your sorrow shall be turned into joy. Christ turns the water of tears into wine.

3. It confutes the Arians, who deny the Holy Ghost to be God. The eternal Godhead subsists in the Holy Ghost (John 16:13). He shall guide you into all truth.

God has promised to help us bear affliction, and (Psalm 37:24, 39) how could we experience God's supporting us in trouble, if we did not sometimes meet with it? God has promised to give us joy in affliction (John 16:20). How could we taste this honey of joy, if we were not somet…

And I suppose, they will not find out an office for the Holy Ghost whereunto he might be exalted on the account whereof he might become God, seeing this would acknowledge him to be a person which they deny. So he is called the Comforter (John 16:7), a personal appellation this i…

There is no dividing or parting of stakes in this matter: Christ is resolved, that he will either be a whole Savior, or none at all; there shall no person or thing come in to share with him in the honor of this, but he will do the whole work, and he will have the whole glory of…

Qu. 18. Whereas sundry of these things are founded in the light and law of nature, as requisite to all solemn worship, and are moreover commanded in the moral law, and explications of it in the Old Testament; how do you look upon them as evangelical institutions to be observed p…

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 When Christ was risen from the dead, did he still continue upon earth? A. No, but after a time he left this world, and ascended into heaven (John 16:28). Q What was the place from where he did ascend?

Secondly, the sacrifices that these priests offer, are all spiritual. 1. The first is prayer, which the Spirit of Christ forms in the heart of a believer, whereby he lays open all his spiritual and temporal wants to God his Father, in the name and mediation of Jesus Christ, thro…

The holy Spirit in all his dispensations to us ward, delights to receive all from Christ, rather than from us; that so he might glorify Christ in us. "The Comforter whom I shall send to you, he shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and show it to you" (John 16:14). Nor…

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So our Lord Jesus Christ expressly opposes speaking in parables, to a clear, plain, open teaching, so as to be understood of all. See (Matthew 13:10, 11, 12, 13; John 16:28, 29). Now speaks you openly, and no parable.

(1) Upon the first communication of Gospel light to us by the Holy Ghost. Christ sends him to convince us of sin and righteousness and judgment (John 16:8). And if upon the first participation of light and conviction by the Holy Ghost, this repentance is not wrought in us, it is…

(2) A refusal of all such ways of atonement, satisfaction, and reconciliation that might be offered from any thing, that all or any creatures could perform; sacrifice and offerings, and whole burnt-offerings for sin he would not have (Hebrews 10:5, 6), he rejected them as insuff…

It is so to believe in him, as to believe that he is able to save to the utmost all that come to God by him. This is the ground whereon in our holy worship we assemble in his name (Matthew 18:20), and make all our supplications to God in his name (John 16:26), that is, by an exe…

This Person, the holy Spirit of God, God himself, his communication of grace and mercy, in the accomplishment of the most glorious promises of the Old Testament, was he whom these apostates renounced. But there is a peculiar notion or consideration of the Spirit, with respect wh…

But this substance is in themselves, which none could take away from them, none could spoil them of. Such is the peace and joy that our Lord Jesus Christ gives to his Church here below (John 16:22; chapter 14:27). And if the substance, here intended, be that which was in themsel…

1. In the power of his Spirit, and the exercise of his royal authority, for the setting up and settling his Church in the world; whereof there are two parts: (1.) The assistance of his Spirit, with his miraculous operations to the ministers of the Gospel, which were the powers o…

When a man sees this his deadness aright, it may be truly said, that he sees what he did not see before. Now that the Spirit is come to convince a person, he sees that, and sees so, as all his hearing, reading, studying, could never shew him before the Spirit of conviction came…

The matter should be considered by them, whom it does concern. 2. Christ reveals things to us by his Spirit, and hence we have the Promise of the Spirit (John 16:7). And we read of the Spirit of wisdom, and of revelation (Ephesians 1:17).

Written chiefly for the comfort of Christ's little flock, which is the small number of the faithful, by John Knox. John 16:33 In the world you shall have affliction, but be of good comfort: I have overcome the world. Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree, by Tho…

- The one is to believe that God can grant our requests, because he is almighty, and thus much is signified when he is said to be in heaven. - The second is to believe that God is ready and willing to grant the same, and this we are taught in the title father, which serves to pu…

Hence it follows necessarily, that Jesus Christ is true God: and the whole tenor of the Scriptures confirms it sufficiently. 1. He is made equal to God the Father, who being in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God (Philippians 2:6): again, All things that t…

I have read of a river in America, which runs in the day with a full torrent, but it is dry at night. The comforts of the world run strongly in the day of health and prosperity, but at the night of death they are dried up; but as joy abounds in the godly, so it abides (John 16:2…

Look as in outward generation the matter is gradually prepared and disposed, so is the soul for the new birth: a man is awakened by the sight of his own wretchedness, convinced of sin, and the evil consequences of it; and then the work is done by the mild voice of the Gospel, as…

Has the Spirit convinced you of sin? That is the first step in order to the working of saving faith (John 16:9). 2. A second requisite of saving faith is the sight of the object, a sight of Jesus Christ revealed and freely offered and held forth in the Gospel.

Third, our Savior distinguishes the synagogical courts from the civil courts of judgment in cities, calling the one councils, the other synagogues (Matthew 10:17). Fourth, the beating and scourging in the synagogues was an error and abuse of the later times, the corrective power…

The second worke of the Spirit is to convince and perswade effectually and fully. The Spirit shall convince the world of sinne (John 16:8): that is, it shall convince and perswade thoroughly: none can doe this but the Spirit. It does also farther perswade men, that it is good fo…

This being the great blessing Christ purchased by his labours and sufferings on earth, it was the blessing he received of the Father, when he ascended into heaven, and entered into the Holy of Holies with his own blood, to communicate to those that he had redeemed. John 16:7: "I…

3. Then, third: "No one is regenerate except by the power of the Holy Spirit, by whose efficacious operation all who are born of God are translated from spiritual death to life" (John 3:5, 6, 1:13; Titus 3:5). 4. And therefore, fourth: "That Holy Spirit alone is able to bring an…

Theology as a complex of spiritual gifts — Extraordinary or ordinary gifts — Ordinary gifts peculiar to the ministry or common to all — Christ the bestower of all gifts (Psalm 68:19; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8) — The Hebrew word signifies both to receive and to give — Christ the a…

And hence it is that so few make use of Christ's sacrifice and of His righteousness, because so few are convinced that they believe not on Him. Therefore, when the Spirit comes (John 16), it is said that He shall convince the world of sin — not because they did [reconstructed: w…

2. It may allude to a man's taking pains in planting of a vineyard, or orchard, to whom it is a satisfaction when all the trees grow, thrive well, and bear fruit; and so the meaning is, that our Lord Jesus shall be at vast expense, and great labor and pains, in making sinners to…

2. When folks say that they believed all their days, and believed always since ever they knew good by ill; and though their faith be no true saving faith, but a guessing, yet they will not quit it — indeed it is impossible for men to get them convinced that they lack faith. 3. W…

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…

Use 1. Is there not as much here, though folks had no more but their unbelief, as may make them know it's an evil and bitter thing, and as may make them scare at it, and flee from it, and to fear lest they be found under the guilt of it, when called to a reckoning, especially wh…

Yet 4. we say it may be used by, and accepted of God, from, many that have not that distinctness, and clearness in the ridding of their thoughts, in this mystery that is requisite; because there may be real faith under such a form of words, (though infirmity in the use-making of…

Or 2. they are hypocrites, that make a fashion of prayer, but come not to God by Him, but at the short cut proudly step forward, and put up their suits upon the account of their own righteousness; as they ground their justification on it, and not on Christ's satisfaction, so the…

Yet it is short, and for a moment, and Christ has a way of outgate, that none of his shall be buried under the cross (Revelation 7:14; Psalm 34:19). (2.) Christ has broken the iron chains of the cross, and the gates of brass: that the cross has but a number of free prisoners, wh…

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. So there is a Spirit of grace poured on the family of David (Zechariah 12:10), on the th…

Pos. 6. Christ's inviting us to come to him, and that before we can invite him, speaks of union. 1. Such a union as faith can make, which does not rise to the pitch of sight, and immediate fruition, for it is the union of those that are absent one from another, in regard of full…

Answer: All these prove this place will prove only, we are to pray for magistrates under whom we have peace, and the Gospel, not for believers, and so not for all Adam's sons; as the next words, page 59, prove. Object 13. Here is a ground to preach the Gospel to all men, to ever…

Christ himself uses this argument as the strongest that could be brought to convince the world that his righteousness (which he had in his doctrine taught them) was the righteousness which men were only to be saved by, the true righteousness of God indeed. John 16:9–10: 'He shal…

Secondly, Christ is an Advocate for us with our Father: you may perhaps think there is little in that; but Christ puts much upon it: indeed so much, as if God would however grant all that Christ himself means to ask, whether Christ asked it or not. This you have expressly in Joh…