---------------------- Cbap.r.Seet 8. Looking u:11o:Je(r14. Book.IV. Parr .VI. 949 requefr, his interpellation for us; grounded upon the vigour and · vertue ofhis glorious merits. Father I will that they aifo whom John 1 7 . 11. thou haftgivm me be with m~ whtre I am, thnt they may behold my glory which thou haft given me. This was a p~ece oft hrifis prayer whiles) et he was on (arfh; and fome fay It ts a fummary of _ Chriils interceffion which now he ma.kes for us in his glory; he prayed on earth as he meant to pray for us when he came co heaven· he hints at this in the beginning of his prayer,for he fpeaks as ifall his work had been done on earrh,and a·; if then he were even bcginainghis workinheaven; 1 have glorified thee on earth, I John 17 ,.h r. have finijbed the work__whicb thougaveft mee to do; .rnd now 0 Father t/orifie thou m'ewith thy own [elf, with the glory whio·h1 had wiih theebrfore t he I Vorld w.u. I know it is a queilion, whether Chrift now in heaven do indeed, and trmh, and in right propriety offpeech pray for us ? fome able Divines are for the negative, others for the affirmative. For my part ( le'aving a hberry to thofe .otherwife min. ded nccording to their li~ln) I am ofopinion, that C:hrifi doth not ondy intercede by an interpretative prayer ,~s in the pre fen . tiAg of himfelf, and his merits to his Father; bllt alfo by an expretfe prayer, or by an exprelfe and open reprefentarion of his will : and to this opinion methinks thefe Texts ag.Ue. 1 •rit! pray the Father , andhefhallgive;ouanother ( tmJorrer, tmd •tt t hat d.q ye /bP.il Mk_in my Name, and I foy mt umo pu, that I )vhn 14, 16 wil!praytheFatherforyou; whenheiaith Ifa}ncr, . that I wift] oh. I6.l6. 17• pray for you, it is the higheft intimation that he would pray for them; as it is our phraze1 I do nor fay that I -mil! do this or that for you, n9 mt I; when indeed we will mofi ·furclv do it and ' do it to ptlrpofe. APJftin confirmesthis, or.1t pro ~obis, o;at in · A~g.prc(c v ln nobis, & oratur a nobis, &c. He prayes form, he prayes in.Pialme 8 f. m, 'and he is putyed to by 11s: he pra7e1 fer mas he u our Pri<jf, lin~ be prayes in P..l M he u our Head, and he u pr.t]ed to by m · M' he u our ~od. Ambrofe tells us, th~t Chrift (o non> pr"'}es for m, tU fo"!mm~s he _prayedfor Peter, that hu faitk jbo11 ld not [aile. ~mbr. fu~er ad Methmks I tmag,oe as tt I heard Chnfr praytng tn heaven in this oman, • language, 0 my Father, I pra1 not for the World, I will not open my lips for an; one forme offerditi<n, but I employ all my blood, .:~nd all m1 praye~s, dn~ a!~ my interefts wirh theef or my deare, beloved, p{ectOUJ SamtJ; zt u true t.hou haft given me a.perfor~al glory; - E c e c e e 3 which. .
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