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come to glorify thy Son, that thy Son alfo may glorify thee. As thou haft given him Power over all Flesh, that he should give eternal Life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is Life eternal that they might know thee the only true God, and Jefus Chrift, whom thou haft fent. - And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own felf, with the Glory which I had with thee, before the World was. — All mine are thine, (all my Things are thy Things, as it might be properly tranflated) and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. Father, I will that they also whom thou haft given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my Glory which thou baft given me: For thou lovedft me before the Foundation of the World.

Another Thing that is to be obferved in our Lord's Manner of fpeaking concerning himself, is, that as he fpeaks in the Character of the Son of God, who was most near and dear to the Father, fo he frequently reprefenteth himself as the great and all-fufficient Saviour of Mankind, through whom alone we can be reftored to the Divine Favour, as the Giver of the Spirit, and not merely the Publisher, but the Au thor and Beftower of eternal Life. And this must certainly give him an Authority, vastly superior to any other that ever pre

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tended to inftruct Mankind. phet, or holy Man of God, could ever declare in the fame magnificent Terms, that he did concerning himfelf, My Sheep hear my Voice, and I know them, and they follow me. And I give unto them eternal Life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my Hand. John x. 27, 28. I am the Refurrection and the Life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet fall be live: And whosoever liveth and be lieveth in me fhall never die; or shall not die for ever, or eternally. John xi. 25, 26. This is the Will of him that fent me:-That every one which feeth the Son, and believeth on him, viz, with a practical vital operative Faith, hould have everlasting Life And I will raife him up at the last Day. John vi. 40. which he repeateth feveral Times in that Chapter, Ver. 39, 41, 44. In my Father's Houfe are many Manfions; if it were not fo I would have told you, I go to prepare a Place for you. And if I go to prepare a Place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be alfo. John xiv, 2, 3. I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no Man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Ib. Ver. 6. Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you Reft. Matt. xi. 28. I am the Vine, je

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are the Branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much Fruit: For without me ye can do nothing. John xv. 5. He afcribeth to himself the Sending of the Holy Ghoft: When the Comforter is come, whom I will fend you from the Father, he shall teftify of me. John xv. 26. If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart I will fend him unto you. John xvi. 7. He (ie. the Spirit of Truth) shall glorify me: For he shall receive of mine, and fhall fhew it unto you. Ib. Ver. 14.

To thefe may be added the Paffages that relate to his being conftituted the great Judge of the World, by whom the Dead fhall be raifed, to whom all Men must give an Account, and by whom their everlafting State fhall be determined. Thus we find him declaring, As the Father raifeth the Dead, and quickeneth them, even fo the Son quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no Man, (viz. immediately) but bath committed all Judgment to the Son. John v. 21, 22. The Hour is coming, in which all that are in their Graves fhall hear his Voice, and fhall come forth, they that have done Good unto the Refurrection of Life, and they that have done Evil unto the Refurrection of Damnation. Ver. 28, 29. At the End of the World, the Son of Man

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fhall fend his Angels, and they fhall gather out of bis Kingdom all Things that offend, and them that do Iniquity: And fhall caft them into the Furnace of Fire: There fhall be Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth. Matt. xiii. 41, 42. Many will fay to me in that Day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophefied in thy Name? And in thy Name have caft out Devils? And in thy Name done many wonderful Works? And then will I profefs unto them, I never knew you; depart from me ye that work Iniquity. Matt. vii. 22, 23. Luke xiii. 26, 27. But above all that remarkable Paffage, Matt. xxv. from Ver. 31 to the End, deferves our special Notice: When the Son of Man fhall come in his Glory, and all the holy Angels with him, then fhall be fit upon the Throne of his Glory, and before him fhall be gathered all Nations, &c. And then he goes on to give an admirable Account of the 'future general Judgment. He reprefenteth himfelf as the univerfal Judge, at whofe Tribunal all Mankind fhall appear, by whom the whole important judicial Procefs fhall be conducted, and the folemn Sentence pronounced upon the Righteous and the Wicked; in Confequence of which they fhall be adjudged to everlasting Happiness or Mifery.

And what a wonderful Weight and Authority must this give to our Lord Jefus

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Chrift as a Teacher! an Authority which no other Teacher ever had! Who would not pay a mighty Regard to his Doctrines and Precepts, that believes that he is the Lord by whom we are to be judged; and who hath it in his Power to accomplish his own glorious Promifes, by conferring a tranfcendent eternal Reward on those that believe and obey him; and to execute his own awful Threatenings, by inflicting the Punishments he hath denounced against the obftinate Opposers of his Authority and Laws?

I would conclude with obferving, that our blessed Saviour, who fpeaketh thus of himself, was the fartheft in the World from Vain-glory, or unreasonable and exceffive Boafting. He truly declareth concerning himself, I feek not mine own Glory. John viii. 50. And again, I feek not mine own Will, but the Will of the Father which bath fent me. John v. 30. We may be fure therefore that he did not in the leaft exaggerate or reprefent his own Dignity and Divinity in too high and extravagant Strains. He would never have expreffed himself in such a Manner if it had not been true in itself, and agreeable to the Father's Will that he should do fo; and if it had not been of great Confequence to Mankind, that they should have juft Senfe of his Divine Dignity and Au

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