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A52249	An exposition with notes, unfolded and applyed on John 17th delivered in sermons preached weekly on the Lords-day, to the congregation in Tavnton Magdalene / by George Newton.	Newton, George, 1602-1681.	1660 (1660)	Wing N1044; ESTC R29244	715,417	610

the world the world would love its own but because ye are not of the world therefore the world hates you And hence it comes to pass that it persues them persecutes them casts them out creates them all the trouble and vexation that it can so that they are not like to have a quiet hour almost in this world Besides the evils and afflictions to which they are exposed by the necessity of nature as man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards Job 5.7 distempers and diseases in their bodies loss of their estates and friends and earthly comforts and the like ungodly men come in with their additions The Church of Christ while she is here is ill-seated she grows in an ill place as he himself affirmeth of her 2 Cant. 2. as the Lilly among thorns so is my Love among the daughters She is environed and begirt with them so that she is annoyed and hurt and pierct on every side She cannot stir but one or other of her thorny neighbours hath her by the sleeve She dwels in Mesech while she dwells in this world and hath her habitation in the Tents of Kedar in the midst of wicked men so that she is beleaguered as it were and hem'd about with those that hate her and desire her ruine This is the state and the condition of the Saints while they are here they are continually vexed and troubled So that no marvel though our Saviour tells his own Apostles In the world you shall have tribulation Iohn 16.33 That is your portion as long as you remain here The world hath alwayes been an evil and uncomfortable place to Christs Disciples in this respect that it is a place of sinning Indeed my brethren they are troubled with the sins of other men their righteous souls are vexed with their filthy conversations Rivers of waters run down their eyes because men keep not Gods Law But they are chiefly troubled with their own sins from which they are not to be wholly freed while they remain in this world As long as they continue here they are perpetually in Sathans danger who is the Prince of this world and whose authority and power is confined to this life There will never be an absolute and perfect cure of sin in any of the Saints till this corruption have put on incorruption And hence perhaps the corruptions of our natures are stiled worldly lusts Tit. 2.12 And our members that are upon the earth Col. 3.5 because we cannot possibly be rid of them while we are here upon the earth and while we live in this world The Apostle Paul compares himself and others of the Saints to earthen Vessels 2 Cor. 4.7 And earthen vessels when they were legally defiled could not be made clean again till they were broken all in pieces as you may see Lev. 11.33 So we my brethen are not to be fully cleansed till we be shivered all in pieces We are not to be wholly rescued from the bondage to corruption till death translate is to another world And then he that is dead saith the Apostle is free from sin Rom. 6.7 So that no marvel though the world be a place of such disquiet and discomfort to the Saints For how can they be fully comfortable here while they are alwayes sinning against God He that hath entred into rest indeed hath ceased from his own works as the Apostle speaks Heb. 4.10 Till then he cannot wholly cease from those that are most properly his own works but is in danger of offending God and falling into sin continually and so can have no rest here Nay my beloved no man knows how far the Lord may suffer him to fall in this world Though it be a certain truth that they that are elect can never wholly fall away from God yet they may sin exceedingly to the dishonour of the Lord the scandal of their brethren and the irreparable wounding of their name while they have a day to live And this they are in danger of I mean of falling fearfully so long as they remain here What deadly falls have many of Gods worthies taken in their latter times It is observable that Davids first wayes are commended 2 Chron. 17.3 By which the Holy Ghost insinuates that his last wayes were not answerable to them He speaking of Jehosaphat walked in the first wayes of his Father David Indeed the latter wayes of David were blemished with extremity of sin and scandal The like is also noted of Solomon 1 King 11.9 And Asa 2 Chron. 16.10 And Jehosaphat 2 Chron. 20.35 And how then can the world but but be a doleful and uncomfortable place to Christs Disciples where they are in such hazard How can they but complain as Rebecca sometimes did though in another case If I must still be troubled with my lusts and my corruptions if I must still be over-ruled by them thus what good will continuance in the world do me The world hath alwayes been and is an evil c. in this respect that it is a place of banishment from Jesus Christ from him in whom their very souls delight This makes it sad and grievous to them that they have not Christ with them And this is that at which our Saviour aimeth in my text I am no more in this world but these are in the world There is the dolefulness of their condition that they are to continue here without me Indeed we are debarred of the immediate presence of the Lord while we remain in this world And therefore it is said expresly 2 Cor. 5.6 That whilest we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. And is not this a grievous thing to be kept from the enjoyment of such a one as Christ is Especially to him that knows him and is well acquainted with him and hath tasted of his sweetness can you blame him if he be weary of the world and if it be a trouble to him to continue here if be be willing to be absent from the body that so he may be present with the Lord What holy heart can choose but find a weariness in that place let it be otherwise as pleasant as it will which keeps Christ and him asunder and hinders him from the compleat fruition of his blessed Saviour Who would not gladly leave a place in which as long as he continues Christ and he must be asunder Vse 1 Now is it so my brethren that the world hath alwayes been and is an evil c. Then let it be a Caveat to us not to cast as we are very apt to do on too much joy and comfort here Our manner is when things look a little well and when we have some present quiet and content to promise great and extraodinary matters to our selves To sing a requiem to our souls with the rich man in the Gospel take thine ease eat drink and be merry It s true the men of this world may have some content and quietness and

this particular I shall in a word or two direct you how to judge of this business 1. You may judge a little by his entrance if he be sent of God he comes in by the door and not by the window The door which Christ sets open to him and not which he himself unlocks and opens with a false Key So that if any question grow in this particular he is able to appeal to all the people as the Apostle sometimes did 2 Thess 2.1 You know our entrance It was not in a clandestine and surreptitious way you of the Church you know it what it was whether it were according to the rule and as be seems a Minister of Christ I leave it to your selves to judge I appeal to your verdict You may discover somewhat whether a Minister be sent of God by his enablement to that Office Whom God sends he qualifies he sends not his message by the hand of a fool When Christ ascended up on high he gave gifts unto men for the work of the Ministry Ephes 4.12 God makes able Ministers of the New Testament 2 Cor. 3.6 As he makes them so he makes them able too indues them in a measure with ability of knowledge and utterance gives them wisdom and a mouth If they be competently able both ways it is an evidence that they are of Gods making and of Gods sending You may judge a little as by their ability so by their propensity to do the Office of a Minister And this is that which the Apostle calls a ready mind to feed the flock 1 Pet. 5.2 A good will to deal out to the people the Gospel of Christ 1 Thess 2.8 Indeed my Brethren when a Minister that hath a Competency both of knowledge and of utterance regardeth not at all to stir up the gift of of God that is in him or to use his abilities for the good of the Church but is idle and remiss prefers his pleasure and his ease before the good and the salvation of the peoples souls you have great reason to suspect him that he is not come from God But if he be content to spend himself and to be spent if he be like a burning and shining light as it is said of John the Baptist burning in his zealous Doctrine shining in his holy life and wasting while he shines to others if it be his meat and drink to do the work that God hath put into his hands such a Minister as this so coming in so qualified so employed beware how you suspect that he is not sent of God JOHN 17.9 I pray for them and I pray not for the world WE have not yet dispatched the Preface or the preparation to our Saviours Prayer in the behalf of his Apostles and Disciples some think indeed that he begins his Prayer for them in the following verse which we are now about to enter on I pray for them I pray not for the world But if you mark it there is nothing in it either of Confession or Petition or Thanksgiving only our Saviour Christ lays down some leading Considerations which induce him to present this Supplication for them to his Father And they are taken either from their relation or from their condition The first is drawn from their relation to his Father and himself 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 by means whereof it comes to pass that I am glorified in them the next is drawn from the condition they were in and were likely to be in they were at present in the world and they were likely to be in it out of hand without Christ I mean without his visible and corporal and fleshly presence And now I am no more in the world but they are in the world and I come to thee as if he should have added and I must leave them behind me The greater need they had to be recommended by him in his prayers which were the last he was to make with them in this world These are the things that move him to become an earnest suitor to his Father for his Apostles and Disciples in a special manner as he hints in the beginning I pray for them I pray not for the world Now this he speaks exclusively you see as it is very manifest even in the letter of the Text. A man would think it might have been sufficient for our Saviour to have said I pray for them For had he said but so he had implyed that other men were not at all remembred by him in his prayers But he will be express and clear in such a business of such high importance he will shut out the world from having any share at all in this incomparable priviledge in down-right language and in plain terms from being once so much as mentioned in his prayers I pray for them I pray not for the world So that the point to be observed is plain DOCTRINE Christ is an Intercessor to his Father for none but his own people He prays for them and none but them the world are utterly excluded from having share at all in our Saviours Intercession He intercedes for none that are without the pale that he sets up in this Text he doth not speak one word to God for them I pray not for the world saith he I meddle not with them at all in that business But if he pray not for the world who are they for whom he prays I pray for them saith Christ For them for whom why for them whom thou hast given me So that they who are Christ's you see have a peculiar priviledge in this regard for all the Intercession of the Son of God the great High Priest is spent upon them If any sin we have an Advocate with God the Father saith the Evangelist 1 Joh. 2.1 He speaks it there exclusively we have and no others And therefore it is very much to be observed that he saith not If any sin he hath an Advocate for there are many sinners in the world that have no Advocate with God the Father But if any sin we have an Advocate we that believe have Christ to intercede for us And he may have an advocate if he believe if he be one of us let the man be what be will and let his sin be what it will Christ will be an Advocate and Intercessor to his Father for him He ever lives saith the Apostle speaking of our Saviour to make intercession for them Heb. 7.25 Them whom why them who come to God by him as you may see if you reflect upon the former parcel of the verse He is able to save them to the utmost who come to God by him seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them Still you see his intercession is confined to a selected company of men and not extended to the whole world He appears in Heaven