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C.IX.
ga.
The
Influence
of
Chrift's
Interceßion
into
the Perfev.
ofSts
218
them, that they
fhould
be
preferved through
all
difficulties
unto
the
end.
And he
farther
urges,
Thirdly,
vI4.
from
the
certaine Oppofition,that
they fhould'meetwith=
all:
the world hates them;
and
will
without doubt,
ufe all wayes and
meanes
pofiible, for
their ruine
and deftru&ion; giving allo
the Reafon,
why the
world
hateth
them,and
will
oppofe them which
is
fuch
an
one,as mull
needs
in:
gage
the
Heart
andGoodwill
of
God for their prefervation, to
wit,
becauft
they receive
the
word
of
his deare Sonne,
and upon
that
account,left
the world;
feparated from it, and became
its
enemyes; and
(hall
they now
be left to th6
rage and
fury
'ofthe
world
in
this
condition?
That
be
farre from thee:
Hof;
Father
keepe
them.
Hereupon
Fourthly,
v.
15.
he reneweth
his
prayer
in
their
behalfe, with
a farther
opening
of
his
mind,as
to what
he had laft fpoken of.
The
world,
the
world
being
vile, wretched,deceitfitll, and let upon Oppofition againft
them,
a
man
would
have
thought,that the
Lord Jefus fhould have defired;
that
his
Saints
might
be
taken out
from
the
midit
of
this world; and
let
in
a
quiet
place
by
themfelves, where they might no more be
troubled
with the baits and
oppo-
fitionsofit.
But this
is
not
that
which he requefts; he
hath another
worke
for
them
to
do
in
the
world, they
are
to
beare witneffe
to
him
and
his
Truth,
by their
Faith
and
Obedience,
to
convince
the wicked unbelieving world; They
are to
Glorifie
his
name by doing, and
fufferingfor
him;
fo
that
this
is
no
past
of
his
'requeft;
I
pray
not
(
faith
he)
that
thoufhouldefl
take
them
out
of
the
world,
but
that
they
may
not
be
prevailed
on, nor conquered
b,
the
evil!,
that
is
in
the
world.
That
they may
be
kept,
and preferved from
the
power
of
evill,
which
would feparate them from
me,
and
my
Love.
This
he preffeth for,
and
this he
is
heard in; and
that,
not onlyfor
his Apoftles
and prefent
followers;
but
as he
tells you
v.
20.
for
all
that
fhould
believe on
him,
to
the
end
of
the
world.
The
things prayed for ,
the
Reafon
of
his Interceffìon,
the
oppofition
a-
gainft
the accomplifhmentof the things interceded
for,
thediftin
&ion put
between them for whom
he Intercedes, and
the
perifhing
world,
all delive-
red
in
plaine and
expreffe
termes, evidently
evince
the intendment
ofChrift
in
his
Interceon,
evidently
to
regard the fafeguarding
of
Believers
in
the
Love and Favour
of
God, by
their
continuance
in
Believing,
and prefer/
ati-
on from
the
Power
of
temptations, and oppofitions,arifng
againft their
Per,
feverance in communion with God.
5`°
5.
The
refult
of
what
bath
been fpoken,
as
to
its influence
into the
confirma-
tion
of'
the
Truth
under Demonftration , amounts unto
thus much, That
which
the Lord
Jefus Chrift
as
Mediator requeffeth, and prayeth
for
continu..
ally
of
the Father,
according
to
his
mind,
in
order
to
the
Accomplifhment
of
the
Promifes
made to
him
,
and
Covenant with
him
(
all
his
defires being
bottomed
upon
hisexa&
perfe&
performance
of
the
whole
will
of
God, both
in doing and fuffering,)
that
fhall
certainly be
accomplifht
and
brought to
paffe; But
thus,
in
this
manner, upon thefe accounts,
doth
the Lord
Jefus in-
tercedefor
the
Perfeverance
of
Believers,
and their
Prefervation
in
the
Love
of
the
Father
unto the end;
therefore they
fhall
undoubtedly be
fo preferved.
It
is
confefïed,
that
the
Perlons
Interceded for, are
Believers, all
Believers,
that
then were,
or
fhould
be
to the
end
of
theWorld,
(the
efficacy
of
this In-
tercefrion
having commenced from
the
foundations
thereof)
the thing
pray-
ed for
is
their Prefervation
in
the ftate
of
Union
with
Chrift,
and one
ano-
ther,
the motives
tiled for the obtaining this requeft
in
their
behalfe,
are
ta-
ken from
thework
they have
to
doe,
and the
oppofition
they
were to
meet
withal!,
and all
the saints
being thus
put into the
hand
of
God,
who
(hall
take