Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…

Those therefore intended, as the gift, in the Text, they are those that are given by Covenant to the Son; those that in other places are called the Elect, the Chosen, the Sheep, and the Children of the promise, &c.

These be they that the Father hath ⟨p. 15⟩given to Christ to keep them; those, that Christ hath promised Eternal Life unto, those to whom he hath given his Word, and that he will have with him in his Kingdom to behold his Glory, as these Scriptures declare. This is the will of the Father that sent me, that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. And I give unto them Eternal Life, and they shall never perish; neither shall any man pluck them out of my Hand, my Father that gave them me is Greater than All; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers Hand. As thou hast given him Power over all Flesh, that he should give Eternal Life to as many as thou hast given him. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word. I pray for them, I pray not for the world, but for those that thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

Keep through thine own Name, those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, that they may behold my Glory which thou hast given me; ⟨p. 16⟩for thou lovedst me before the Foundation of the World, John, 6. 39. Chap. 10. 28. Chap. 17. 2, 6, 9, 10, 24.