Anthony Burgess


Espository Sermons upon the Whole 17th Chapter
of the Gospel According to St. John, or
Christ's Prayer Before his Passion Explicated
and both
Practically and Polemically Improved.


Sermons on Verse 1
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

Sermons on Verse 2
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

Sermons on Verse 3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Sermons on Verse 4
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Sermons on Verse 5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

Sermons on Verse 6
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

Sermons on Verse 7
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

Sermons on Verse 8
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

Sermons on Verse 9
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

Sermons on Verse 10
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

Sermons on Verse 11
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 one, as we are.

Sermons on Verse 12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Sermons on Verse 13
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Sermons on Verse 14
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Sermons on Verse 15
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

Sermons on Verse 16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Sermons on Verse 17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Sermons on Verse 18
 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

Sermons on Verse 19
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

Sermons on Verse 20
 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

Sermons on Verse 21
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Sermons on Verse 22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

Sermons on Verse 23
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Sermons on Verse 24
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

Sermons on Vere 25
 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Sermons on Verse 26
 
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

 


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