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

JOH. 17.6. I have manifested thy Name to as many as thou hast given me out of the world.

WE have considered the action or efficacy of the person or efficient, spoken of in the Text,

We now come to consider the person himself, and that is Christ, who saith of himself, I have manifested thy Name; Christ speaks in this as he is the great Prophet, and chief Shepherd of our souls, for being entrusted with this office, he did faithfully discharge it, whoever reads over Christs life, and seeth how laborious and diligent he was to bring men to the knowledge of God, and to save their souls, must needs say, The Lion of the Tribe of Judah went up and down more earnestly to save then the roaring Lion of hell is busy to destroy, Hence Joh. 4. while he is employed to bring home but one poor Sheep that was gone astray, the Woman of Samaria, he is so earnest in it that he forgets to eat his bread, and tells them his meat and drink was to do his Fathers will, which was to declare the truth of God, and invite sinners to come in unto him, so then we see here, an excellent President for all the Ministers of the Gospel to follow; As Christ was wholly in this, to make people know God, so ought they to be; In Christs works of his Mediatorship, and of his Miracles, we may not imitate him, we cannot, but in this of his labour and tender love to mens souls, we are bound to follow him.

We now come to consider the person himself, and that is Christ, who saith of himself, I have manifested thy Name; Christ speaks in this as he is the great Prophet, and chief Shepherd of our souls, for being intrusted with this office, he did faithfully discharge it, whoever reads over Christs life, and seeth how laborious and diligent he was to bring men to the knowledge of God, and to save their souls, must needs say, The Lion of the Tribe of Judah went up and down more earnestly to save then the roaring Lion of hell is busie to destroy, Hence