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

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.

All these sentences are of the same import with the Text; and the Alls, and Manies; those, they, &c. in these several sayings of Christ, are the same with All the given in the Text. All That the Father giveth.

So that, (as I said before) the word All, as also other words, must not be taken in such sort as our foolish fancies, or groundless opinions will prompt us to, but do admit of an enlargement or a restriction, according to the true meaning and intendment in the Text. We must therefore diligently consult the meaning of the Text by comparing it with other the Sayings of God; so shall we be better able to find out the mind of the Lord, in the Word which he has given us to know it by.

So that, (as I said before) the word All, as also other words, must not be taken in such sort as our foolish fancies, or groundless opinions will prompt us to, but do admit of an enlargment or a restriction, according to the true meaning and intendment in the Text. We must therefore diligently consult the meaning of the Text by compareing it with other the Sayings of God; so shall we be better able to find out the mind of the Lord, in the Word which he has given us to know it by.