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

Obs. Christ did fully and perfectly finish that work the Father gave him to do. ¹John 4.34. see what a notable expression our Saviour useth to this purpose, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me; My meat, i. e. my joy, my refreshing; never any hungry man was more refreshed by food, then I am in doing my Fathers will, and what was that will, to obtain pardon and salvation for a poor humbled sinner. Oh why should the godly soul be dejected with doubts, whether Christ will receive him or no, it's his meat to be communicating grace and mercy to thee; Thou canst not so much desire him as he doth thee: Again he adds, To do my Fathers will and to finish his work; for if Christ had begun it and not completed it, we had been still in our sins, and without all hope; ⟨p. 120⟩this is the fountain of all our hope and joy, Christ finished his work, he did not leave any thing for me to do. Indeed duties are required of us, but not as additaments or supplements to his mediation, but as qualifications fitting us to partake of the fruit of it.² Let us dive into the Divinity of this Point; And

Obs. Christ did fully and perfectly finish that work the Father gave him to do. ¹John 4.34. see what a notable expression our Saviour useth to this purpose, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me; My meat, i. e. my joy, my refreshing; never any hungry man was more refreshed by food, then I am in doing my Fathers will, and what was that will, to obtain pardon and salvation for a poor humbled sinner. Oh why should the godly soul be dejected with doubts, whether Christ will receive him or no, it's his meat to be communicating grace and mercy to thee; Thou canst not so much desire him as he doth thee: Again he addes, To do my Fathers will and to finish his work; for if Christ had begun it and not compleated it, we had been still in our sinnes, and without all hope; ⟨p. 120⟩