John 17

John 17:1

GLorifie,] give mee thy power, to overcome by perfect obedience all the combates which I enter into, & then raise me again from the dead gloriously, Romans 1:4. & at the last exalt me into the glory of the kingdome which thou hast bestowed upon me, that by the powerful administration of it, I may re-establish thy Kingdome in the world, destroy thine enemies, and save thine elect: which is the work of thy Soveraigne glory. See Isaiah 55:5. Philippians 2:11.

John 17:3

They might know,] that they may enjoy thee by lively faih in this world and by a present sight in thy everlasting glory The only,] to exclude, not the Son who is the same God with the Father, but Idols and false gods. Or to shew that in the granting of salvation, in the Father ought to be apprehended the absolute and Soveraigne Majestie of the Deiue: and in the Son, the voluntary and subalternate office of Mediator, See Ioh. 14. 28.

John 17:4

Glorified thee,] honoured thee by a perfect obedience, and employed my selfe in causing thee to bee acknowledged and worshipped in the truth of thine essence, and in the effects of thy mercie.

John 17:5

Glorifie thou,] set my whole person, againe into the manifestation and use of that eternall glory, which I have common with thee: which by an unspeakeable dispensation, I left off in the time of mine abasement: And as for my humanitie, do thou exalt it to the fruition of celestiall glory, above all other creatures.

John 17:6

Thine they were,] having taken, and appropriated them unto thee by thine everlasting election Thou gavest them,] to belong unto me, as subjects of my Kingdom, children of my house, and members of my body, and consequently to defend, & govern them.

John 17:7

Now,] I have caused them by my Gospell to know, that all the salvation which they have in mee, and from me, is of thy Soveraigne favour, and that all the glory therefore is due to thee as to the first cause and author, 1 Corinthians 1:30. And so he declares that besides the honour of obedience hee had also glorified him, by the manifestation and direction given to even to yeeld him honour and glory.

John 17:9

I pray not,] mine effectuall intercession in consequence of my reall redemption and reconciliation is but only for my Church, and not for the other part, whereof the devill is head For they are,] seeing that by the gift which thou hast made to mee, thou hast lost no part of the right of thy former propriety; but that it is rather more strictly confirmed to thee by me, I do also pray thee that thou wouldst co-operate with me by thy Soveraign power, to the accomplishing of their salvation.

John 17:10

And all mine,] whereupon as thou hast made thine elect, members of my body, to the end that I should redeeme them: so have I made all those which beleeve in mee to bee thy children, that thou mightest love, governe and perfectly save them And I am,] I doe not aske it only for their good, but likewise for my glory, wch is inseparable from thine.

John 17:11

And now I am,] seeing that according to my vocation, my corporal presence must leave them, wch presence hath hitherto been as a secure safegard for them. I do remit them into thine hands, that I being exalted to thy glory, thou mayest inviolablie preserve them by my divine presence and power, which I have wholly from thee, Matth. 28. 20 In the world,] exposed to infinite dangers and temptations, and subject to many infirmitier In thy name,] Namely by thy power. Or as such that beare thy Name They may bee,] they may be inseparably preserved, in the mysticall and unspeakeable union with me, and with my Church: which is the neerest figure of the unitie of essence, and the union of will that is betweene thee and I.

John 17:12

The Sonne,] the lost man, who was destined to damnation. See 2 Thessalonians 2:3.That the,] it being impossible that those things which are soretold by the Holy Ghost should not come to passe. Not that he perished to fulfill the Scripture, but the Scripture did foretell it, because that he was to perish thorow his own wickednesse.

John 17:13

I speake,] I make this prayer unto thee in their presence, to give them a certaine and perfect comfort, and rest of Spirit: because of the certaintie which they may conceive of thy hearing of mee.

John 17:14

Given them.] communicated it unto them, by instructions: and by the impression of my spirit, and also deposited it into their hands to preach and divulge it.

John 17:15

From the evill,] Namely from the Devill.

John 17:17

Sanctifie them,] purge them more and more from the corruption of sinne and the world by thy word accompanied with the power of thy spirit Acts 15:9. Ephesians 4. 24. and 5. 26. 1 Peter 1:22.

John 17:18

Sent them,] to be my Ministers in the execution of the charge which thou hast imposed upon me. Wherefore they have so much the more particularly need of the grace of thy spirit.

John 17:19

For their sakes,] being perfectly sanctified in my humane nature, I doe in it accomplish all manner of righteousnesse and holinesse: and doe consecrate my selfe to the sacrifice of the rosse, to cleanse them from their sins, and to gaine the gift of the holy Ghost for them, which may regenerate them in 〈…〉wnesse of life.

John 17:21

In us.] Namely in the Communion of my spirit, by which they may bee mistically united to me and by me to thee May beleeve,] being induced and perswaded thereunto, by the vertue of the Holy Ghost, working powerfully, and evidently in them in words and deeds, Matth. 5. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 12. and 3. 1.

John 17:22

The glory,] Namelie the everlasting happinesse into which my humane nature is going, and where the full accomplishment of my Churches union with mee her head shall bee I have given,] by isallible promise, and by a right title, having for them fulfilled that righteousnesse which hath the promise of life, and besides that by the earnests, and 〈◊〉 fruits of the spirituall life. In which they are transformed into the glorious Image of the Son of God, 2 Corinthians 3:18. Eph. 26.

John 17:23

I in them,] by the influence and power of my spirit, as thou art in me by the fulnesse of God-head, and by the perfect communication of thy fatherly love and vertue. See Iohn 14. 20 Bee made perfect,] that is to say perfectly joyned in one, namely in the life everlasting. To attaine to which Christ desires of his Father, that the beginnings may bee maintained and furthered in this life.

John 17:24

Hast given me,] in my humanitie, as I am head of the Church Lovedst me,]diddest chuse mee and accept of mee, for to conferre this Soveraigne dignitie upon me: and diddest also approve of 〈◊〉 obedience, which thou diddest foresee, to appoint this height of glory for me.

John 17:25

The world,] Namely that part of men, which is not of thine elect nor of my beleevers, hath no communication of lively knowledge nor grace with thee. I only have it in perfection, and decommunicate it to beleevers by faith in me: as the only Mediator appointed by thee.

John 17:26

May bee in them,] may come to them, by the meanes of my dwelling in them by my spirit.