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

That Christ had the glory he prayed for with the Father before the world was. ¹Of this at this time.

That Christ had the glory he praied for with the Father before the world was. ¹Of this at this time.

1. 1Observ. That Christ had the glory he prayed for with the Father before the world was.Observ. That Christ had the glory he praied for with the Father before the world was.

In the Greek it is [Greek or Hebrew], not in a Grammatical construction, for it is [Greek or Hebrew], that glory which I had; as also there is a trajection of [Greek or Hebrew], before the world was, [Greek or Hebrew], So in the Original; But our Translators do well interpose it, where the sense is to be made up; Now as was hinted the great doubt is, In what sense Christ is said to have this glory with the Father before the world was: The Arians and Socinians who deny the eternal Deity of Christ, do most readily interpret it of Gods decree, and his inward purpose of mind, as if the meaning were, that the Father would glorify him with that glory which God the Father had decreed for him before the world was, and it cannot be denied but that sometimes a thing is said to be before the world was, because it was in Gods purpose: Thus Rev. 7. Christ is said to be a Lamb slain from the beginning of the world, So 2 Tim. 1.9. The grace of God is said to be given us in Jesus Christ before the world began, that is, in respect of decree, Thus some expound that phrase so often used in this Chapter (Those thou hast given me) viz. in his decree. Hence it is that some Divines though Orthodox and fully believing the eternal Deity of Christ, do make this the sense of