t36 SERMONS upon Serm.i6. Z1fe 4. Comfort. Chrift is apprehenlve of your Danger. All Trials you meet with, do either better your Hearts, or haften your Glory. Chriltians mutt expect Danger, but need not fear it. Formido fublata ell, non pugna s You are not abfolute- ly freed from Moleltations of the World, but you have a fanâified ufe of them. John t6. 33. Theft things have I fpokjn unto you, that in me ye might have Peace, in the World ye fhall have Tribulation: but be of good comfort, 1 have overcome the World. The Vi&o- ry confifteth not in not fuffering, and not fighting, but keeping what we fight for. s Tim. 4. 18. The Lord fhall deliver me from every evil Works not from the Lion, kit Sin. 7..1fe 5. the Example of Chrift. When we die,. let us be mindful of the Danger of our Relations that we leave behind us, our Families, Church, Miniltry, commend them to God. Dying Chrillians fhould be bell at the laft s dying Mofes left a Song. Do not leave the World without a teftimony of your Love and Zeal. 2 Pet. 1. 14, 15. Knowing that feorty I mull put of this my Tabernacle, even as our Lord Jefus Chrifi bath fbewed me. Moreover, I will endeavour, that you may be able, after my Deceafe, to have theft things always in remembrance. SERMON XVI. JOHN XVII. t t. And now I am no more in the World, but thefe are in the World, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name thole whom thou haft given me, that they may be one, as we are. Secondly, Come to the Compellation of the Party to whom the Prayer is made, Holy Father. This Compellation is to be obferved. Titles of God in Scripture, are flaked to the Requells made to him : as, 2 Theff. 3. 16. The God of Peace give you peace always by all means. So, Rom. 15. 5. The God of Patience and Conflation grant you to be like-minded one towards another. He prays for brotherly- forbearance and fweet- nefs. In the feveral Paragraphs of this Chapter, Chrift fpeaketh to his Father in a different Stile, according to the Nature of the Addrefs. Yerf 1, 5. it is Father only : In Yerfe 28. it is Righteous Father, becaufe of the Truth. and Equity which he ohferveth in his gw clous Difpenfations : and here it is Holy Father. When he beggeth things fuitable tohis commutative Jullice, then it is Righteous Fathers but when he asketh things fuitable to his Holinefs, it is Holy Father. Certainly it is a great Relief to Faith in Prayer, to pitch upon fuch a Name and Title in God, as fuiteth with the Nature of the Requeft s it begetteth a Confidence, that he both can and will do us good. When we call a Man by his Name, he will look about upon us; and when we ask things ac- cording to his Nature, he will pity us. But why Both Chrift ufe this Title at this Time ? I Anfwer s Some take Holinefs more largely, for the general Goodnefs and Perfe- ction of the Divine Effence s a branch of which, is his Veracity or Truth in keeping Promifes s and conceive the Argument thus : The Holy God cannot break his Word, nor be Rained with any Unfaithfulnefs s therefore unlefs God fhould deny himfelf, he will keep them through his own Name. But I rather think it is fpecially put for his Puri- ty. Chrift goeth to his Father as a pure Fountain of Grace, for Sanctification for his Difciples. Holinefs, it is the Obje& of God's Approbation, the Effel of his Opera- tion
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