ChaP.t 7 according to St J oH N. III out a mediatour to his Fa ther, and was embraced : Much more flail we, prefentedby Chrif. Verfe ro. And I am glorified in them] It will be a angular prop to our prayers, if we fo carry our felves, that Chrift in his daily interceflion may give this teftimonyofus to the Father. He undertakes for us, as it were, and gives his Word, that we, being mindefull of our reconciliationby him, flail {bun finby his grace, and not provoke him as before. This fhould caufe us to live fo as Chrift may have credit byus, and we mayhave courage tocome to God byChrift. Verfe r I . Keep through thine own Name] The Name of the Lord is a,ffrong tower, Prov.i 8.1o. Amunition ofrocks , Ifa.3 3. r 8. Hither the Saints run for the fecuring of their comforts, and fafe- guardingoftheirperfons, as Coneyes do to their burroughs, all creatures to their refuges, as the Shechemites fled to their Tower, z'Sam.s. 6,74 when their City was beaten down to the ground, 7udg. 9. The lame and blinde , the molt fhiftleffe creatures , when they had gotten the thonghold of Sionover their heads, thought then they might fecurely fcornDavidand his hot}, and yet their hold failed them. So doth not God, thofe that flee to his Name. Pray, to be kept by it.. Verfe r z.. But theTonne ofperdition] This exception thews that yudar was never of Chrifts body : for, can he be a Saviourofa foil of perdition ? But why is he then excepted? Firft, by reafonof his office he feemed to be of his body. Secondly,. our Saviour fpeaketh here in particularof the twelve ; and to be an Apoftle,. I as in it felf but an outward calling. Verfe 13. And thefe things I jpeak in the world] Not for his own or his Fathers fake, but for the comfort ofhis tifciples ; to cure them oftheir anxiety and anguifh, when they heard himpray- ing andproviding fuch things for them. For this alfo it was, that . be prayed thus in their.prefence, (when at other times he went apart ) for their confolation doubtlefle and inftru%on., Mr BradfordMartyr, when heIhifted himfelfin a clean(hirt, made fox ACI. and Molt hisburning, he made. fuch aprayer ofthe Wedding-garment, that f'ol.i 5.48.. force of thofe that were prefent, were in fuch great admiration, that their eyes were as truly occupied . in looking on him, as theik . cars gave place to hear his prayer. Verfe 14. I have given them thy Word, &c. ] I haveput m'y word into their.mouth therefore theworld hateth them.: Perfe cutiont
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