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…

- 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…

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…

And this shows that it had been impossible for any under the Son of God, to have given a sufficient price for our redemption; neither man nor angels could do it: but he in giving a sufficient price for us, did thereby mightily declare himself to be the Son of God, he only by his…

Notable is that example in Psalm 119:4-5: You have commanded us to keep your commandments diligently; and in the next verse see what is his request: O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes; look, whatever God commands us to do, we have warrant to pray for that — we mu…

2. That the Devil often abuses our solitude. It is good sometimes to be alone; but then we need to be stocked with holy thoughts, or employed in holy exercises, that we may be able to say as Christ (John 16:32): I am not alone because the Father is with me. However a state of re…

6. After the best care is used you must remember that our friends are but an outward help, which God can continue or withdraw at his pleasure; and that our chief help, comfort and counsel comes of God. So it was with Christ (John 16:32): "Behold the hour is come that you shall b…

The child is not to be governed by his own fancy, but his father's discretion, nor the sick man by his own appetite, but the skill of the physician. It is expedient God should displease his people, for their advantage (John 16:6-7): Because I have said these things to you, sorro…

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…

A wilderness is a solitary place, where other speech is not heard, (as the word imports:) then speaks God to the soul when men cannot speak to it: When men are remote, God is near at hand; indeed nearest to help, melt, comfort, quicken, when men are furthest off (Hosea 2:14). Ou…

That's a strange text (Isaiah 45:11) — Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me: So some take it; you shall find me as ready to do you service, as if you had me at command: yet this must be warily received, not as though God…

Or shall we think to go our own errand? Lord, forgive this gross ingratitude: Oh Christians, whatever your constraint or enlargements be, make use of him, who is at God's right hand, lay your sacrifices on this golden altar; lay the whole stress of your acceptance upon Christ's…

If Paul had had his praise before men, and not in himself, he should have been compelled to despair, when he saw many cities, countries and all Asia fall from him: when he saw so many offenses or slanders, and so many heresies to follow his preaching. Christ when he was alone, t…

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.

Sonnes] that is, such as inioy the libertie of sonnes. Sent forth] a speach borrowed from Embassadours, which are sent forth with instructiōs, what they shal say or do: & it signifies, that the spirit reueales nothing but that which is the will of the father & sonne, Ioh. 16. 1…

For by reason of that rebellious nature which is inbred in us, we shall never profit in the word of God, unless we be brought under by violence. Therefore Christ also (John 16:8) from here takes the beginning of the Gospel: namely, that the world might be reproved of sin. Now th…

For so he forthwith expounds himself when he says, that there was no help for them in the earth. That is to say, we see no succor at all (John 16:21). He adds, that the inhabitants of the world did not fall: for the Hebrew word Naphal, signifies to fall.

To conclude, it appears by this place, what profit Christ brings to us; to wit, a steadfast and perfect joy, which can by no means whatever, be plucked away from us; no, not although we be assailed with waves and storms, indeed and pressed with all manner of anguishes. For howev…

This Epistle is attributed to Saint Jude the Apostle, brother of James the less, and Simon: Mark 6, Luke 6. Whose mother was Mary the wife of Cleopas, and sister of the blessed Virgin Mary the mother of Christ: John 16. But it appears not expressly to be written by that Jude who…

Titus 1:1: According to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness. John 16:27: The Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God. 1 John 4:15: Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the…

And herein all that are duly called Christians do agree; as the Church of Israel did in one God after their return from the Captivity of Babylon; But now the Lord Jesus Christ being ascended to his Father, has committed his whole Affairs in the Church and in the World to the Hol…

Acts 3. 21. Mat. 18. 19. 1 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 16. compared. (6.) The Holy Spirit works the Work of Christ; John 16. 13, 14, 15. opened. (7.) The Holy Spirit the peculiar Author of all Grace. (8.) The Holy Spirit workes all this according to his own Will. 1. His Will and Pleas…

That which is preparatory for it, is the Conviction of sin; This is the Work of the Holy Spirit. John 16. 8. 9. And this also may be distinctly referred to three Heads. (1) A Discovery of the True Nature of Sin, by the ministry of the Law, Rom. 7. 7. (2) An Application of that d…

And hereby are these Graces kept alive which without this would decay and wither. Herein does the Holy Spirit take the things of Christ and shew them to us, Joh. 16. 14, 15. He represents them to us in the Preaching of the Word as the proper Objects of our Faith and Love.

When the disciples of our glorious Lord were filled with sorrow upon the heavy news of his departure from them, he cheered their drooping spirits with that good word in John 16:7: 'Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away, for if I go not away,…

One Word of God can do more, than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. If Providence have at any time directed you to such Promises, as either assure you that the Lord will be with you in trouble, Psalm 91:15 or that encourage you from inward peace, to bear ch…

Who bid us expect rest, ease, delight, and things of this kind in this world? He has never told us, we shall be rich, healthy and at ease in our habitations; but on the contrary, he has often told us, we must expect troubles in the world, John 16:33 and that through many tribula…

(1.) How near the Relation is betwixt you and your Children, and therefore how much you are concerned in their happiness or misery. Consider but the Scripture account of the dearness of such Relations, expressed (1.) By longings for them, as Genesis 15:2 Genesis 30:1 and (2.) By…