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instruction and delight which they derive from the study of fht scriptures , is aoiple compensation for the toit ) which they undergo ; and likewise , that the more theysearch into ^ and thd better they ' understand the New Testament , the more they are confirmed in the views which they entertain of the person and character of their revered and exalted master .
For the better understanding of the above cited text it may be obs ^ rvedj that the glory for which our Lord here prays , is the very same which he proposed to coinmunicate to his disciples . See y . 22 . c - c That glory which thou hast given roe / I have given them , that they may be one as we are one /'
This glory was unquestionably the glory of publishing the gospel to the wprld ^ see v . 8 , 14- They were his messengers to mankind , as he had been his Father ' s ipessenger . v . 18 . Hence it follows , that the glory which our Lord desired wa $ not any personal honour and gratification j his motive was not of a selfish and mercenary kind . Far from it . His prayer was
that he might pe honoured as the ihstrumentof instructing mankind in truth and goodness ,, an $ in making them virtuous and happy ; and he w ^ desirous that his apostles might share with him in this honour and felicity . This glory he had g iven thena , that is _ , it was his firm purpose Skpd intention to give it them . For they were not actually qualified and sent forth till after the effusion of the spirit on thcr
day of Pentecost . In the same sense the Father had given it to hinij that is > had fully purposed to bestow it upon hinr , for he was not yet in possession of it : nor had he yet altogether finished the work assigned him ^ the . scene of his sufferings not being yet begun , though he expresses himself strongly m the past tense , i haveJinished the work which thou gavest me to do /*
where he could mean nothing more than to express the absolute certainty of the event . But what God purposes ^ he purposes frorp eternity ; it was therefore his eternal purpose thus to glorify Christ . And Christ leaving spoken of the glory intended for him as actually given to hinij might with equal propriety speak of it as given him ,
that is 5 certainly destined for him ^ from all eternity . And in this sense it was the glory which he had with the Father before the world was . This way of speaking of a thing as already done which was certainly determined upon , was familiar to the Jews . See 2 Tim . i . 9 . Eph . i . 4 . Heb . x . 34 . And iri Rom . viii . 29 , 30 .
believers are represented as actually justified and glorified , because from the beginning they were foreknown and predestinated to salvation .
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550 Mr . Belshatffs Strictures on Carpenter ' s Xectures .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/42/
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