CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

4. The End or Consequent of all this, That they may be one as Thou and I are one.

Of the Mercy prayed for Keep, and the Subject, Those thou hast given me in the first place; I shall not enlarge any thing more upon this Description; Neither is there any difficulty in the words, only [Greek or Hebrew] is rendered by some serva, and they take it properly, for those were said to be servari who were taken in war, and so the Conqueror had full power over them to put them to death, but of his clemency he saved them, and thereupon were called servi, but the Greek word hath no such allusion; Only there is a twofold keeping external and temporal from the violence and rage of wicked men in respect of their bodies and lives because the world hates them: And 2. Spiritual and internal in grace and holiness, and this he doth principally pray for, as appeareth by the matter instanced in; Keep them in their outward condition that they be not destroyed, keep them in their spiritual condition that they lose not their faith or other graces; Keep them in bono that they be not undone deficiendo; Keep them a malo that it hurt them not Inficiendo; If they do sin, keep them reficiendo by repairing and raising them ⟨p. 301⟩up again; If then the Disciples though thus wonderfully given by the Father to Christ, do need a daily keeping lest they be undone every way, then it holds true also of all believers.

Of the Mercy praied for Keep, and the Subject, Those thou hast given me in the first place; I shall not enlarge any thing more upon this Description; Neither is there any difficulty in the words, only 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is rendred by some serva, and they take it properly, for those were said to be servari who were taken in warre, and so the Conquerour had full power over them to put them to death, but of his clemency he saved them, and thereupon were called servi, but the Greek word hath no such allusion; Only there is a twofold keeping external and temporal from the violence and rage of wicked men in respect of their bodies and lives because the world hates them: And 2. Spiriutal and internal in grace and holinesse, and this he doth principally pray for, as appeareth by the matter instanced in; Keep them in their outward condition that they be not destroid, keep them in their spiritual condition that they lose not their faith or other graces; Keep them in bono that they be not undone deficiendo; Keep them a malo that it hurt them not Inficiendo; If they do sinne, keep them reficiendo by repairing and raising them