64 SERMON -S upbn Serrt1.7. (q..) Here is Comfort for the Church ; while our Head is fo highly magnified, and Made Lord of all, he will rule all fear the bell; certainly, no Good (ball be wanting to them that are hit. Pfal. t to. r. The Lord faid unto my Lord, Sit thou at My tight Hand, with f make Mine Enemies thy Footfiool. There (hall come a Time, when the Chuteh (hall have no Enerniè , _fo far (hall it be from its being overcome by its Enemies, that they (hall curie themfelves that etet they refilled the Church. (i.) Our Sins (hall not prejudice our Happinefs, feeing he fitteth at the tight Hand of God the Father to be our Interceffor. i Joh.z.r. If any Man fin,we have an Advocate With the Father, lefts Chrifi the Righteous ; we have a Friend at Court,a Favorite in the Coutt df Heaven. If it were not for Chrill'sfnterceffion, what fhould we do ! thofe that know the Majefty of God, their own Unworthinels, the pollution of their Prayers, what fhould they do ! The Spirit is our Notary here ; Rom. 8. z6. The Spt rit helpeth our Infirmities : for we know not what to pray for as we ought ; but the Spirit lit felf maketh interceon for us, faith groarritsgs which cannot be uttered. And Chri(l is our Advocate in Heaven ; Rev. 8. 3. 4nd another Angel came and flood at the .4ltar, having a golden Cofer, and there was given unto him much Incenfe, that he fhould offer it ttith the Prayers of all Saints, upon the golden Altar which was before the Throne. Our Prayers have an ill favout as they come from us. 2. For our Inftru &ion. It teachethus to feek Heavenly Things. Col. 3. t. If ye then be rifts with Chrift, feek the things that are above,where Chrifi ftteth at the right hand of God. Phil. 3. 20. Our Converfation is in Heaven, from whence alfa we look for the Saviour, out Lord pry! Chrifi. We fhould imitate Chrift; whatever he did Corporally,we tonft do Spiritually. There is out Trea£ure; if you are the Children of God,he is your Delight. There is our Head ; the inferiour Parts never do well when they are fevered from the Head. All that we expe& cometh from thence,and therefore a natural delire of Happi- nets carrieth the Saints thither. SERMON VII e JOHN XVIL6. 7 have manifefled thy Name unto the Men which thougave[I me out of the G#'orid: thine they were, and thou gaveff them me, and they have kept thy Word. E have now ended the fish Paragraph of this Chapter, Chtift's Prayer for himfelf. Here he cometh to pray for others, the Diftiples of that Age. When Jacob was about to die, he blef. feth his Sons ; fo dothChrift his Difciples: Chriftreprèfenteth their Cafe with as much vehetnency, as he doth his oìta. In this Verfe he ufeth three Arguments : They were acquainted with his Fathets Name ; belonged to his Grace ; and were obedient to his Will. Or if yttat will, yot may obferve, Firfi, The Perlons, for whom he prayeth. Secondly, The Reafons, why he prayeth for them; which are three: L What Chrift had done. Il. What the Father himfelf had done. Ill. What they had done.
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