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

Argum. 4 4. A Fourth Argument is taken From Christs peculiar Prayer and Intercession for their Preservation; And thus the Argument runs: Those for whom Christ offered up a Mediatory Prayer, and earnestly begged and entreated that they might be so kept that none should perish, Such must infallibly be preserved, but all the Godly are comprehended in this Prayer for their Preservation; You see in these Verses it is Christs whole drift and scope to obtain this for them, that though they must be in the world, yet that they might be kept from the evil and wickedness of the world, and lest this should be thought for his Apostles only, or such as did already believe in him, He addeth, verse 20. that he prayeth for all such as shall believe ⟨p. 360⟩in him: Here you see all that do or shall believe in Christ they are comprehended in this Prayer, that none may perish; Now it's plain that the Father heard Christ in all that he desired, and there was always an Agreement or Correspondency between his will and the Fathers; Now what Christ did for all, we see more pregnantly in Peter, Luke 22.23. I have prayed (saith he) that thy Faith fail not; This is done for every godly Person as well as Peter, and therefore upon this Occasion said in the general to all the Apostles; Satan had desired to winnow them, if it were possible to have cast them out as Chaff; And this Mediatory Prayer continueth still in some sense, For Hebr. 5.26. He ever-liveth to make Intercession for us; This certainly must necessarily be effectual to our preservation.

Argum. 4 4. A Fourth Argument is taken From Christs peculiar Praier and Intercession for their Preservation; And thus the Argument runnes: Those for whom Christ offered up a Mediatory Praier, and earnestly begged and entreated that they might be so kept that none should perish, Such must infallibly be preserved, but all the Godly are comprehended in this Prayer for their Preservation; You see in these Verses it is Christs whole drift and scope to obtain this for them, that though they must be in the world, yet that they might be kept from the evil and wickednesse of the world, and lest this should be thought for his Apostles onely, or such as did already beleeve in him, He addeth, verse 20. that he praieth for all such as shall beleeve ⟨p. 360⟩