I e с 34 Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of. God came, and the scripture cannot 25 Jesus answered them, told you, and ye believed not: 'the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear wit-be broken; ness of me. 26 But 'ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: g 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am 'the Son of God? 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, 'believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, m that the Father is in blessed trust: intrusted them with me, and I in him. 40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place 'where John at first baptized; and there he abode. 41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were him, as the choicest of his jewels, as the most precious casket amongst all the treasures of the creation, that he should polish, preserve, present them faultless, and without spot before the presence of his glory at the last day. And for this purpose, he gave him a commandment of the greatest care and tenderness that ever the world knew, that he should lay down his life for his sheep, and should lose nothing of all that was given him, but should raise it up at the last day. John x. 18; vi. 39. So that now, want of care or compassion of Christ towards his Church would be an argument of unfaithfulness; if he had not been a merciful High Priest, neither could he have been faithful to him that appointed him, for he was appointed to be merciful, and was by the Spirit of God filled with most tender affections, and 21.-n ch. vii. 30. 44; & viii. 59.-o ch. i. 28.-p ch. iii. qualified with a heart fuller of com true. 42 'And many believed on him there. 9 I Mac. iv. 59.- Acts iii. II; & v. 12- Or. hold us in suspense-s ver. 38. ch. iii. 2; & v. viií. 47 1 John iv. 6. ver. 4. 14.- ch. ch 36. vi. 37; & xvii. 11, 12; & xviii. 9.- ch. xiv. 59.-c ch. v. 18.-d Ps. lxxxii. 6. Rom. xiii. 1.-ch. 28.-2 ch. xvii. 2, 6, &c.-a ch. xvii. 11, 22-6 ch. viii. vi. 27.-g ch. iii. 17; & v. 36, 37; viii. 42.-h ch. v. 17, 18. ver. 30.- Luke i. 35. ch. ix. 35, 37.-k ch. xv. 24 ch. v.36; & xiv. 10, 11.-m ch. xiv. 10, 11; & xvii. 30.-9 ch. viii. 30; & xi. 45. READER.-My sheep hear my voice; and I know them, and they follow me; and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. -Christ keepeth his sheep, that none may be lost, and prayeth unto the Father to keep them, through his own name. John x. 12, 13; xvii. 11, 12. The Lord committed the Church unto Christ as their head; gave them into his hands, not as an ordinary gift, wherein he did relinquish his own interest in them, or care of them, (for he careth for them still,) but as a passion than the sea is of waters, that he might commiserate the distresses of his people, and take care of their salvation.-REYNOLDS. -The same I and my Father are one.—' names, properties, works, and worship, which, in Scripture, are ascribed to the Father, are frequently ascribed to the Son also in Scripture: the Father is called Jehovah in Scripture, so is the Son, Hos. i. 7; Jer. xxiii. 6; the Father is called God, so is the Son, John i. 1, " In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;" with God as to his person: God as to nature. So also John xx. 28; Acts xx. 28, &c. Moreover, is the Father Alpha and Omega, the first and the last? So is the Son, Rev. i. 8. Is eternal? So is the Son. the Father | however they be points, which carnal Isa. ix. 6; reason cannot put over; yet they are Rev. i. 8. Is the Father Almighty? such, as reason illuminate and reSo is the Son. Heb. i. 3. Is the generate can both easily and most Father every where? So is the Son. comfortably digest. "Great is the Matt. xviii. 20. Doth the Father mystery of Godliness; God manifested know all things? So doth the Son. in the flesh;" 1 Tim. iii. 16. What John xxi. 17; ii. 24. Did the Father mystery were there in godliness, if make all things? So did the Son. the deepest secrets of religion did lie John i. 3. Doth the Father preserve open to the common apprehension of all things? So doth the Son. Heb. nature?-HALL. i. 3. Doth the Father forgive sins? So doth the Son. Matt. ix. 6. Is the Father to be worshipped? So is the Son. Heb. i. 6. Is the Father to be honoured? So is the Son. John v. 23. No wonder therefore that Christ being thus "in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God."-BEVERIDGE. Regenerate reason will teach me to subscribe to all those truths, which the unerring Spirit of the Holy God hath revealed in his sacred word, however contrary to the ratiocination of flesh and blood. Only this is the right reason, which is illuminated by God's Spirit, and willingly subjected to faith; which represents to me those things, which thou suggestest to me for unreasonable and impossible, as not feasible only, but most certain. That, in one Deity, there are three most glorious persons, distinguished in their subsistences, not divided in their substance; that, in one person of Christ the Mediator, there are two natures, Divine and human, not converted into each other, not confounded each with other; that the Creator of all things should become a creature; that a creature should be the mother of him that is her God; HYMN. Jesus, thou shepherd of the sheep, The flock for which thou cam'st from heaven, Oh, guard thy sheep from beasts of prey, Secure them from the scorching beam, And lead them to the living stream; Lord, bring thy sheep that wander yet, § CCLV. KELLY. CHAP. XI. 1—27. Christ raiseth Lazarus. Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister | Our friend Lazarus "sleepeth ; Martha. 2 ('It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, "he abode two days still in the same place where he was. 7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judæa again. 8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? 9 Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours in the day? 'If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. 10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. 14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe ; nevertheless let us go unto him. 16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. 17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. 18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, 'about fifteen furlongs off: 19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. 20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house. 21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. 22 But I know, that even 'whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 24 Martha saith unto him, * I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the "life: " he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? 27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. a Luke x. 38, 39.-b Mat. xxvi. 7. Mark xiv. 3. ch. xii. 3.-c ch. ix. 3. ver. 40.-d ch. x. 40.-e ch. x. 31.-ƒ ch. ix. 4.-g ch. xii. 35.- So Deut. xxxi. 16. Dan. xi. 2. Mat. ix. 24. Acts vii. 60. 1 Cor. xv. 18, 51.- That is, about two miles.-i ch. ix. 31.- Luke xiv. 14. ch. ▼ 29.-1 ch. v. 21; & vi. 39, 40, 44-m ch. i. 4; & vi. iii. 26. 1 John v. 10, &c.-o Mat. xvi. 16. ch. iv. 42. 35; & xiv. 6. Col. iii. 4. 1 John i. 1, 2; & v. 11.-n ch. & vi. 14, 69. He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth.-The philosophers of old were wont to call sleep the brother of death; but God says, death is no other than sleep itself: a sleep, both sure and sweet. When thou liest down at night to thy repose, thou canst not be so certain to awake again in the morning, as, when thou layest thyself down in death, thou art sure to awake in the morning of the resurrection. Out of this bodily sleep thou mayest be affrightedly startled with some noises of sudden horror; with some fearful dreams; with tumults, or alarms of war; but here, thou shalt rest quietly in the place of silence, Ps. xciv. 17, free from all inward and outward disturbances; while, in the mean time, thy soul shall see none but visions of joy and blessedness. But, oh the sweet and heavenly expression of our last rest, and the issue of our happy resuscitation, which the gracious apostle hath laid forth, for the consolation of his mournful Thessalonians! "For, if we believe," saith he, "that Jesus died and rose again; even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." Lo, our belief is antidote enough against the worst of death. And why are we troubled with death, when we believe that Jesus died? And what a triumph is this over death, that the same Jesus, who died, rose again! And what a comfort it is, that the same Jesus, who arose, shall both come again, and bring all his with him in glory! And, lastly, what a strong cordial is this to all good hearts, that all those who die well, do sleep in Jesus! Thou thoughtest, perhaps, of sleeping in the bed of the grave; and there, indeed, is rest: but he tells thee of sleeping in the bosom of Jesus, and there is immortality and blessedness.-HALL. Jesus saith unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.-Because the soul is an incomplete substance, and created in relation to the body, and is but a part of the whole man, if the body were as eternal and incorruptible as |