John:17

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* These (note :)Jesus Christ , the everlasting high Priest , being ready to immediately offer himself up , by solemn prayers consecrates himself to God the Father as a sacrifice , and us together with himself . Therefore this prayer was from the beginning , is , and will be to the end of the world , the foundation and ground of the Church of God .(:note ) words spake Jesus , and lifted up his eyes to heaven , and said , He first declares that as he came into the world so that the Father might show in him (being apprehended by faith ) his glory in saving his elect , so he applied himself to that only : and therefore he desires from the Father that he would bless the work which he had finished . Father , the hour is come ; glorify thy Son , that thy Son also may glorify thee : * As thou hast given him power over (note :)Over all men .(:note ) 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 (note :)He calls the Father the only true God in order to set him against all false gods , and to include himself and the Holy Spirit , for he immediately joins the knowledge of the Father and the knowledge of himself together , and according to his accustomed manner sets forth the whole Godhead in the person of the Father . So is the Father alone said to be King , immortal , wise , dwelling in light which no man can attain unto , and invisible ; ( Rom_16:27 ; 1Ti_1:17 ).(:note ) only true God , and Jesus Christ , whom thou hast sent . * I haue glorified thee on the earth : I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe . * And nowe glorifie me , thou Father , with thine owne selfe , with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was . * * Nowe they knowe that all things whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me , are of thee . * For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me , and they haue receiued them , and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee , &amp ; haue beleeued that thou hast sent me . * I pray for them : I pray not for the worlde , but for them which thou hast giuen me : for they are thine . * And al mine are thine , and thine are mine , and I am glorified in them . * And now I am no more in the world , but these are in the world , and I come to thee . Holy Father , keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me , that they may be (note :)He prays that his people may peaceably agree and be joined together in one , that as the Godhead is one , so they may be of one mind and one consent together .(:note ) one , as we [are ]. * While I was with them in the worlde , I kept them in thy Name : those that thou gauest me , haue I kept , and none of them is lost , but the childe of perdition , that the Scripture might be fulfilled . * And now come I to thee , and these things speake I in the worlde , that they might haue my ioy fulfilled in themselues . * I haue giuen them thy word , &amp ; the world hath hated them , because they are not of the world , as I am not of the world . * * They are not of the worlde , as I am not of the world . * * * And for their sakes I sanctify myself , that they also might be sanctified through the (note :)The true and substantial sanctification of Christ is contrasted with the outward purifyings of the law .(:note ) truth . * * That they all may bee one , as thou , O Father , art in me , and I in thee : euen that they may be also one in vs , that the worlde may beleeue that thou hast sent me . * And the glory that thou gauest me , I haue giuen them , that they may be one , as we are one , * I in them , and thou in mee , that they may be made perfect in one , and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee , and hast loued them , as thou hast loued me . * Father , I will that they which thou hast giuen me , be with me euen where I am , that they may beholde that my glorie , which thou hast giuen mee : for thou louedst me before the foundation of the world . * O righteous Father , the worlde also hath not knowen thee , but I haue knowen thee , and these haue knowen , that thou hast sent me . *

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