...a prevailing prayer. AVhen we recollect what Chrift faid to his Father in the nth of John, " I pray not for the world, but for them which thou haft given me :" If he intercedes for his enemies, it was for thofe of them whom the Father gave him, and for whom...

...have known " furely that I came out from thee, and " they have believed that thou didftfendme. " 9. I pray for them : I pray not for " the world, but...them which thou haft " given me : for they are thine. '* 10. And all mine are thine, and thine " are mine ; and I am glorified in them. " 11. And now I am...

...pray for their converfion? For ia that pathetic prayer he prayeth only for the Eleft: John xvii. 9, I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which than hafl given me, for they art thine. Epenetus. If we did but rightly obferve the feveral parts of...

...words of our Lord (often so quoted by others), at the ninth verse of the seventeenth of St. -John, " I pray for them, I pray not for the •world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine." He also quoted the twenty-first verse, in which the Saviour prayed...

...and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them : I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me ; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine ; and I am glorified...

...themfelves as his. 3. The Lord looks on fuch to be his, by a fpecial relation : John, xvii. 9. 10. " I pray for them : I pray not for the world, but for them which thoa haft given me ; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine i and I I am glorified...

...thee ; and they have given credit tothem, and have been fully convinced that my mifionis divine. " I pray For them : I pray not for the world, but for...them which thou haft given me ; for they are thine." I pray now more efpecially for thefe my difciples, and not fo directly for the whole human race; for...

...and have known surely " that I came out from thee, and they have " believed that thou didst send me. I pray " for them: I pray not for the world,* but for " them which thou hast given me; for they " are thine. And all mine are thine, and " thine are mine; and I am glorified...

...manifefts in his law and juilice, and of entire acquicfence in his government. Chriit himfelf faya, I pray not for the world, but for them which thou haft given me. An oppofite fpirit, in favor of incorrigible finners, which would defire that they might fucceed in...

...and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them : I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me ; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine ; and I am glorified...