John 14 Cross References - Mace

¹ Let not your heart be troubled: you trust in God, trust also in me. ² in my father's house are many mansions; however, I have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you: ³ and when I am gone, and have prepar'd a place for you, I will come again, to take you with me, that where I am there ye may be also. ⁴ and where I am going you know, and the way ye know. ⁵ Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not whither you are going, how then can we know the way? ⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man can come to the father, but by me. ⁷ if you had known me, you would likewise have known my father: and from henceforth you shall know him, nay, you have seen him. ⁸ Philip said to him, Lord shew us the father, and we are satisfied. ⁹ Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and don't you know me yet? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen the father; why then do you say, shew us the father? ¹⁰ don't you believe that I am in the father, and the father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak indeed, tho' not from my self; but as to the works, the father, who dwells in me, he is the agent. ¹¹ believe me, I am in the father, and the father in me: at least believe me upon account of the very works. ¹² I assure you, he that believeth on me, shall likewise perform the works that I do; nay, greater works than these shall he do; because for that end am I going to my father. ¹³ and if in my name ye shall ask any thing of the father, whereby he may be glorified by the son, I will effect it. ¹⁴ when ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵ if ye love me, keep my commandments. ¹⁶ and I will pray the father, and he shall give you another advocate, to abide with you for ever; ¹⁷ even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows him: but ye shall know him, for he shall dwell with you, and shall be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I will come again to you. ¹⁹ yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more: but ye shall see me: because I shall live again, and ye shall live also. ²⁰ then shall you know, that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹ he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him. ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, why Lord, will you show your self to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. ²⁴ he does not love me, who does not observe my precepts: for the doctrine which you have heard, is not mine, but the father's who sent me. ²⁵ this is what I have to tell you, for the little time that I am with you. ²⁶ but the advocate, the holy spirit, whom the father will send for my sake, he will explain every thing to you, and make you remember, all that I have told you. ²⁷ I bid you farewell! I give you my last farewell; but I do not give it out of common formality: don't be concern'd for me, or apprehensive for your selves. ²⁸ ye have heard me say, "I am going away, and shall come again unto you." if ye loved me, ye would rejoice at my going to the father: for the father is greater than I. ²⁹ this I have told you now, before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye may believe. my conversation will now be but short with you, ³⁰ for the prince of the world is coming: ³¹ not that he has any thing against me, but that the world may know that I love the father, by my executing the commands which my father gave me: arise, let us go hence.

²³ that all men should honour the son, even as they honour the father. he that honoureth not the son, honoureth not the father who hath sent him.

⁴⁰ I say, is the will of him that sent me, that every one who observes the son, and believeth on him, should have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me shall live even though he were dead: ²⁶ and no man living that believeth in me, shall ever die. ²⁷ do you believe this? yes, Lord, said Martha, I believe that thou art the Messiah the son of God, who was to come into the world.

³³ when Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed from his heart, and was troubled,

²⁷ "Now is my soul troubled; what! shall I say, father, save me from this concern? but for this cause am I come, even for this very concern.

⁴⁴ Then Jesus rais'd his voice, and said, he that believeth on me, does not so much believe on me, as on him that sent me.

¹⁹ I tell it you now before it happens, that when it is come to pass, you may believe that I am the Messias.

²⁷ I bid you farewell! I give you my last farewell; but I do not give it out of common formality: don't be concern'd for me, or apprehensive for your selves. ²⁸ ye have heard me say, "I am going away, and shall come again unto you." if ye loved me, ye would rejoice at my going to the father: for the father is greater than I.

³ and thus will they treat you, because they have not known the father, nor me.

⁶ are your minds so overwhelm'd with sorrow at what I told you?

²² so you are afflicted at present: but I will see you again, and then shall your hearts be affected with joy, and your joy shall no one wrest from you. ²³ tho' then you cannot ask any thing of me in person, whatever ye shall ask the father in my name, I assure you he will grant it.

¹⁵ but killed the prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. ¹⁶ it is the faith which we have in him, that has procured strength to this man whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him, hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

⁷ so that now you ought rather to forgive, and comfort him, for fear he should be overwhelm'd by an excess of sorrow.

⁸ I am press'd on every side, yet not crush'd; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; dejected, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always bearing about in my body the marks of sufferings like those of Jesus, so that Jesus might be plainly prov'd to be alive by the sufferings of my body.

⁹ but he said to me, "my favour is sufficient for thee: for my strength is shown to be perfect by thy weakness." with pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may be seen to dwell in me. ¹⁰ I take pleasure then in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am afflicted, then it is I have fortitude.

¹² that we should celebrate his glory, who were the first that plac'd our hopes in Christ. ¹³ by whom you also have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: and having believed in him, ye were mark'd with the seal of the holy spirit, which was promised:

¹⁵ Wherefore having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and of your love to all christians,

¹⁴ for this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ from whom the whole family in heaven and earth are denominated his children: ¹⁶ that by his immense power he would strengthen the faculties of your minds by his spirit: ¹⁷ so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ.

³ none of you might be stagger'd by these persecutions: for you know that we are destin'd to suffer. ⁴ and even when we were with you, we foretold you, that we should be persecuted, as you know it happen'd.

² you would not by any pretended revelation, by any discourse or epistle ascrib'd to us, be immediately perplex'd in your minds, or under any concern for the approach of the day of the Lord.

¹² Wherefore "strengthen your weak hands and your feeble knees. ¹³ clear the way for your feet, lest that which is lame should be quite out of joint, instead of being redress'd."

²¹ it is by him that you believe in God, who has raised him from the dead, and invested him with glory, that your faith and your hope might be in God.

²³ whosoever denieth the son, disowns the father: ²⁴ adhere therefore to what ye have learnt from the beginning. if you adhere to what ye have heard from the beginning, you will still persist to own both the son and the father.

¹⁰ he that believeth on the son of God, hath the testimony of God thereto: he that does not believe God, impeaches his veracity, because he does not believe the testimony that God gave of his son. ¹¹ Now what is testified, is this, that God has given to us eternal life: and this life is by his son. ¹² he that receives the son, is intitled to life; and he that does not receive the son of God, has no title to life.

²⁶ and said, he that can't abandon his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, nay, even his own life, cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ and he that does not bear his cross, and tread in my steps, cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ for who of you would resolve to build a tower, without taking the trouble first of all to compute the expence, and whether he is able to finish it? ²⁹ for fear he should be made the jest of every spectator, for laying the foundation, without being able to carry it on. ³⁰ this man, will they say, began to build, but wanted stock to finish. ³¹ or where is the king, that will march to give battle to another king, without setting himself first to deliberate, whether he is strong enough with ten thousand to withstand an army of twenty thousand? ³² that in case he is not, he may send an embassy, and desire conditions of peace, before the other approaches. ³³ in like manner every one of you must count upon renouncing all that he has, otherwise he cannot be my disciple.

²⁵ he that loveth his life, shall lose it: but he that sacrifices his life in this world, shall preserve it to eternity. ²⁶ if any man would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be: whoever serves me, him will my father reward.

³³ my dear children, I am with you but for a little while. you shall seek me: but as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, "where I am going you cannot come."

³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered him, you cannot at present follow me, where I am going; but hereafter you shall.

⁴ but these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember what I now tell you. I did not tell you so much at the beginning, because, I was then to be with you.

²⁴ father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am going; that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me: for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world; yet,

¹⁶ for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name.

¹ For I know, that if my body, which is but a tent for my sojourning upon earth, were dissolved, I have what is not fram'd by human art, but by the divine architect, a mansion eternal in the heavens.

⁹ for God did not design to make us the objects of his displeasure, but to effect our felicity by the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,

⁴ so that you are the subject of our glorying in the churches of God, for the constancy of your faith, under all the persecutions and afflictions you endure from men, ⁵ by which you may be assur'd, that they will be punish'd by the divine justice, and that you shall be rewarded with the kingdom of God, for which you suffer; ⁶ since it is agreeable to his justice to afflict those in their turn, who afflict you: ⁷ and that you, who are distress'd, should obtain your repose, together with us, when the Lord Jesus, with his angels, the ministers of his power, shall descend from heaven, ⁸ in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those, who know not God, and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: ⁹ the Lord shall punish them with everlasting destruction, when he shall appear in the glory of his power, ¹⁰ and come to be glorified by his saints, and to be the object of admiration to all who believed, that the testimony we gave you, would be justified in that day.

² and gives the expectation of eternal life, which the God of veracity promised so many ages ago;

²⁰ where Jesus is gone to usher us in, having been made an high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec.

⁸ the holy spirit showing thereby, that the way to the holy of holys, was not yet open, while the first tabernacle was standing.

²³ It was therefore necessary that what was only a type of the heavenly sanctuary, should be purified by such sacrifices; but the heavenly sanctuary itself, by a more excellent sacrifice. ²⁴ for Christ is not entred into a sanctuary made by human art, such as is only representative of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear from henceforth in the presence of God on our behalf: ²⁵ nor to make a frequent offering of himself, as the high priest every year enters into the holy of holies with other blood than his own. ²⁶ for then must he have suffered several times since the beginning of the world, when in the consummation of the ages, he has appeared once for all to expiate sin by offering himself as a sacrifice.

¹⁰ for he had in view the city, whose foundations are sure, the architect and founder being God.

¹⁴ for they. that make such a declaration, show plainly that they seek some other country. ¹⁵ and truly, if that had been in their view, they might have had an opportunity of returning to the place from whence they came. ¹⁶ they desired therefore a better, that is, an heavenly country: so that God is very justly stiled their God: for he had appointed a city for them.

¹⁴ for we have. no settled corporation here, but are in expectation of that which is approaching.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins by his own blood,

¹² him that overcomes, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more: I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which descends from heaven from my God: even my new name will I write.

²¹ to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my father in his throne.

² and I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descend from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

¹⁰ and he carried me away in an extacy to a great and high mountain, and shewed me the city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. ¹¹ it blaz'd with the glory of God: her luminary was like that of a brilliant, even like a jasper, as transparent as crystal. ¹² her walls were large and high; the gates were twelve; and at the gates twelve angels, with the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel inscrib'd thereon. ¹³ on the east were three gates; on the north, three gates; on the south, three gates; and three gates on the west. ¹⁴ the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the lamb. ¹⁵ he that talked with me, had a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. ¹⁶ the city was a square, the length being as large as the breadth: he measured the city with the reed, and found it twelve thousand furlongs: the length, the breadth, and the height of it were equal. ¹⁷ he measured the wall, and it was an hundred and forty four cubits, according to the common measure, which was what the angel employed. ¹⁸ the wall was built of jasper; and the city was of pure gold, as pure as glass. ¹⁹ the foundations of the citywall were embellished with all manner of precious stones. the first foundation was of jasper; the second, of sapphire; the third, of chalcedony; the fourth, of an emerald; ²⁰ the fifth, of sardonyx; the sixth, of sardius; the seventh, of chrysolite; the eighth, of beryl; the ninth, of a topaz; the tenth, of a chrysoprasus; the elventh, of a jacinth; the twelfth, of an amethyst. ²¹ the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each single gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as splendid as glass. ²² I did not see any temple there: for the Lord God almighty, and the lamb are its temple. ²³ the city had no need either of the sun, or of the moon to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamb is the luminary thereof. ²⁴ the nations shall walk by its light, and the kings of the earth bring all their glory and magnificence into it. ²⁵ the gates of it shall never be shut by day: for no night shall be there. ²⁶ the glory and magnificence of the nations shall be brought into it. ²⁷ and nothing that is impure, no one that is guilty of any abomination, or a lye, shall ever enter there: but they alone who are written in the lamb's book of life.

³² then all nations shall be assembled before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats. ³³ and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. ³⁴ the king shall say to those on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

²⁶ if any man would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be: whoever serves me, him will my father reward.

¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I will come again to you. ¹⁹ yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more: but ye shall see me: because I shall live again, and ye shall live also. ²⁰ then shall you know, that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹ he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him. ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, why Lord, will you show your self to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

²⁸ ye have heard me say, "I am going away, and shall come again unto you." if ye loved me, ye would rejoice at my going to the father: for the father is greater than I.

¹¹ "ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? this same Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall descend in the same manner as ye have seen him ascend thither."

⁵⁹ Thus they stoned Stephen, while he was calling upon God, and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." ⁶⁰ and on his knees he cried with a loud voice, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." and having said this, he expired.

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; although we now suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

⁶ therefore being always certainly assur'd that whilst I sojourn in this body, I am absent from the Lord, ⁷ (for I regulate my conduct by my future expectations, not by visible enjoyments: ⁸ ) in this assurance, I say, I think it best to be quit of this body, and be present with the Lord.

²³ I am doubly press'd between my desire to depart, in order to be with Christ, which is by far the best for ME;

¹⁶ for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, and by the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, resound the summons: they who died christians shall rise first: ¹⁷ then we, who shall be still alive, shall be convey'd together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall ever be with the Lord.

¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified by you, and you by him, by the favour of our God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² if we suffer, we shall also reign: if we renounce him,

²⁸ so Christ being once offered up to take away the sins of many; he shall appear the second time, without making any further expiation to save those who expect him.

² beloved, we are now the sons of God, tho' it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know, that when this change shall be, his immediate presence will give us a divine resemblance. ³ he that hath such an expectation should purify himself, even as he is pure.

²² I did not see any temple there: for the Lord God almighty, and the lamb are its temple. ²³ the city had no need either of the sun, or of the moon to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamb is the luminary thereof.

³ There shall be nothing obnoxious to a curse: but the throne of God and of the lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him. ⁴ they shall see his face; and his name shall be. in their foreheads. ⁵ no night shall be there, nor any need of a lamp, or of the light of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

²⁶ was not the Messiah to have suffer'd thus, and after that enter into his glory?

¹⁶ for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷ for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

³⁶ he that believeth on the son, hath a right to everlasting life: and he that disobeys the son, shall not enjoy life; but be expos'd to divine wrath.

⁶⁸ but Simon Peter answered, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹ and we have believed and we have acknowledged that you are the Christ, the son of God.

⁹ I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved; he shall go in and out, and find pasture.

³ though he knew that the father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and was going to God,

² in my father's house are many mansions; however, I have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you:

²⁸ I was sent by the father, and am come into the world: but now I leave the world, and am going to my father.

¹⁷ said, why do you trouble your heads about your having no bread? are you yet so void of sense, and understanding? are your minds so blinded? ¹⁸ have you eyes, and yet don't see? have you ears, and yet not hear? have you lost your memory too?

¹⁹ then said Jesus, incredulous people, how long shall I be with you? must I be always assisting you? bring him before me.

²⁵ then Jesus said to them, how stupidly incredulous are you not to believe things that have been all predicted by the prophets!

¹⁶ then said Thomas, that is, Didymus, to his fellow-disciples, let us also go, that we may die with him.

¹² this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

²⁵ the other disciples therefore said to him, we have seen the Lord. but he said to them, except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. ²⁶ Eight days after, when his disciples were again in private, and Thomas with them: Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, peace be with you. ²⁷ then said he to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and examine my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. ²⁸ Thomas answered, and said to him, my Lord and my God!

¹¹ On this head we have many things to say, not easily to be comprehended, because of your prejudices. ¹² for though by this time you ought to be capable of teaching others, you want to be instructed anew in the first principles of the divine oracles; and are in such a state as to stand in need of milk, rather than of solid nourishment.

²⁷ my father has instructed me in every thing: and no one knoweth the son, except the father: nor does any one know the father, except the son, and he to whom the son is pleased to reveal him."

⁴ the Life was produc'd in him, and the Life was the Light of men.

¹⁴ The Logos became incarnate, and had his tabernacle among us, being full of grace and truth; and we contemplated his glory, such glory as the Monogenes derived from the father.

¹⁷ the law indeed was delivered by Moses, but grace and truth was the dispensation of Jesus Christ.

²¹ for as the father raiseth up the dead, and restores them to life: even so the son gives life to whom he will.

²⁵ I declare unto you, the time is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God: and they that hear shall live. ²⁶ for as the father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the son, to have life in himself; ²⁷ and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the son of man. ²⁸ let not this surprize you: for the time is coming, when all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and they that have done good, ²⁹ shall rise to the possession of life; and they that have done evil, shall rise to their condemnation.

³³ for he who is descended from heaven, and gives life to the world, is the bread that is truely divine.

⁵¹ I am the living bread, that is come down from heaven: whosoever shall eat of this bread, shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁵⁷ as the father who is the source of life hath sent me, and I live by the father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

⁶⁸ but Simon Peter answered, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life.

³² and the truth shall make you free.

⁵¹ verily, verily, I say unto you, whoever observes my doctrine, shall never die.

⁷ Jesus therefore subjoin'd, I declare unto you, I am the door of the sheep-fold.

²⁸ it is I that give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any one force them out of my hand.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me shall live even though he were dead: ²⁶ and no man living that believeth in me, shall ever die.

¹⁹ yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more: but ye shall see me: because I shall live again, and ye shall live also.

¹ I am the genuine vine, and my father is the vintager.

² for thou hast given him power over all men, that he might give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. ³ and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.

³⁷ upon this Pilate said to him, you are then a king? Jesus answered, you say right, for I am a king. to this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, to persuade mankind of the truth. every one that loves truth is observant of my directions.

¹⁵ but killed the prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

¹² salvation is not to be had by any other: for there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we can be saved.

² who has given us access by faith to that degree of favour, we are in, by which we triumph in the hopes of divine glory.

²¹ that as sin prevailed unto death, even so might the divine favour prevail by righteousness unto eternal life, thro' Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁸ for I tell you, that Jesus Christ was a minister to the Jews, to manifest the veracity of God in fulfilling the promises made to the fathers: ⁹ and you Gentiles ought to glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, "for this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name ."

¹⁶ to be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating the gospel of God, that the Gentiles might be made an acceptable offering, being sanctified by the holy spirit.

⁴⁵ and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.

¹⁹ for what I, and Timothy, and Silvanus preached concerning Jesus Christ, the son of God, is not inconsistent, but invariably the same. ²⁰ for all the promises of God do center in him, and are verifyed by him to the glory of God by our preaching.

¹⁸ for thro' him both of us have access by the same spirit to the father.

⁹ for in him all divine plenitude does substantially reside.

¹⁷ for these were only the shadows of future things, prefiguring Christ, who is the substance.

⁴ Christ is your life, and when he shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

²⁵ so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

¹⁹ Wherefore, my brethren, since by virtue of the blood of Jesus we have the liberty of entring into the holy of holies, ²⁰ by a new and living way which he has first open'd for us, thro' the veil, that is, thro' his flesh; ²¹ and having an high priest, who is established over the house of God, ²² let us draw near with sincerity, in full assurance of faith, having our consciences purified from guilt, and our bodies washed with pure water.

⁴ which however rejected it is by men, is the precious stone, which God has chosen: and

¹⁸ for Jesus Christ himself has already suffer'd for our sins, the innocent for the guilty, to bring us to God: who, tho' he died with respect to his body, was rais'd to life by that spirit,

¹ Concerning the Logos, the author of Life, we declare what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have consider'd, and what has been the object of our touch. ² for the life was manifested, we have seen it, we testify of it, and denounce unto you, that eternal life which was with the father, and was manifested unto us.

⁸ If we say that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves, and have no regard to truth.

²³ whosoever denieth the son, disowns the father:

⁶ it appear'd by the water, and by the blood, who he was, even Jesus the Messiah; not by the water only, but by the water and by the blood: besides, the spirit is a witness too, now the spirit is truth itself.

²⁰ We know that the son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true: and we are with him that is true, by his son Jesus Christ. "he is the true God, who is the author of eternal life."

⁹ no renegado that deserts the doctrine of Christ, has any interest in the deity: he that adheres to the doctrine of Christ, has an interest both in the father, and in the son.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write, "THESE things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth what no man can shut; and shutteth what no man can open:

¹⁴ And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans, write, "these things saith the AMEN, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

⁸ when he had taken the book, the four animals, and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb, every one of them having harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the saints. ⁹ and they sung a new song, saying, "thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation;

⁹ After this I beheld, and there was a great multitude, which no man could number, of every nation, tribe, people, and language, who stood before the throne, and before the lamb cloathed in white robes, having palms in their hands. ¹⁰ They cried with a loud voice, "salvation from our God who sits upon the throne, and unto the lamb.' ¹¹ and all the angels who stood round about the throne, and about the elders, and the four animals fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, saying, amen: ¹² praise, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might be to our God for ever and ever. amen. ¹³ Then one of the elders spake, and said to me, who are those that are arrayed in white robes? and whence do they come? ¹⁴ my Lord, answer'd I, you can tell. and he said to me, these are they who came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the lamb. ¹⁵ therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall cover them, as a pavillion. ¹⁶ they shall no more suffer hunger or thirst, neither shall the sun dart on them, nor any heat molest them. ¹⁷ for the lamb who is in the midst before the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them to living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

⁷ he was permitted to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all the tribes, and provinces, and nations. ⁸ all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain.

¹¹ Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse appear'd; and he that sat upon him was called the faithful and the true: in righteousness he judges and makes war:

¹⁵ and whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire.

¹ Then he shewed me a pure river of living water, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the lamb.

¹⁷ the spirit and the bride say, come. let him that heareth, say, come. let him that is a-thirst, come: and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

²² the management of every thing is committed to me by my father: no one knows what character the son is invested with, except the father; nor who the father is, except the son, and he to whom the son shall please to reveal it.

¹⁸ no man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten son, who is intimate with the father, hath made him known.

⁴⁶ not that any man hath seen the father, except him who is come from God, he hath seen the father.

¹⁹ then said they to him, where is thy father: Jesus answered, ye neither know me, nor my father: if ye knew me, ye would have known my father also.

⁹ Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and don't you know me yet? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen the father; why then do you say, shew us the father? ¹⁰ don't you believe that I am in the father, and the father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak indeed, tho' not from my self; but as to the works, the father, who dwells in me, he is the agent.

¹⁶ and I will pray the father, and he shall give you another advocate, to abide with you for ever; ¹⁷ even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows him: but ye shall know him, for he shall dwell with you, and shall be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I will come again to you. ¹⁹ yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more: but ye shall see me: because I shall live again, and ye shall live also. ²⁰ then shall you know, that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you.

²⁴ if I had not done among them such works as no other ever did, they had been innocent: but though they have seen them, yet they hate both me and my father.

¹³ but when he, the spirit of truth shall come, he will inform you of all those truths: for he will not speak from himself; but the information he shall receive will he communicate: and acquaint you with what is to come. ¹⁴ he shall glorify me: for he will commuincate to you, the information, which I shall give him. ¹⁵ all that the father has is mine: that is the reason of my saying, "he shall communicate to you the information that I shall give him." ¹⁶ Within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father.

³ and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.

⁶ I have displayed thy name among those whom you have chosen out of the world for me: thine they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept thy word.

⁸ for I have given to them the instructions which you gave me; and they have received them; and have sincerely believ'd that I came from thee, and are persuaded that thou didst send me.

²¹ that they all may be one, as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

²⁶ to them I have declared thy name, and will declare it: that thou mayst love them as thou hast loved me, and I have loved them."

⁶ for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to enlighten others in the knowledge of the glory of God, which shines in the person of Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ he is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation. ¹⁶ for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are on earth, both visible and invisible, the thrones, and the sovereigntys, the principalitys, and the powers: all were created by him, and for him: he is before all things, ¹⁷ and by him all things consist.

² that their hearts might be comforted, and that being firmly united in love, they might possess the highest and fullest persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, by entring into this mystery, even of God the father, and of Christ, ³ in whom are reserv'd all the treasures of wd om and knowledge.

³ who being the radiation of his glory, and the imprest image of his substance, and governing all things by his powerful command, after having himself made expiation for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the divine majesty in the highest heavens.

¹³ I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked spirit. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the father.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

⁴³ The day following Jesus having a mind to go into Galilee, met with Philip, and said to him, follow me. ⁴⁴ now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵ Philip meeting with Nathanael, said to him, we have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. ⁴⁶ but Nathanael said to him, can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? come and see, said Philip.

⁵ Jesus then lifting up his eyes, and seeing a great company coming to him, said to Philip, where can we buy bread to feed this people? ⁶ (this he said to prove Philip: for he himself knew what he had to do.) ⁷ Philip answered him, two hundred penny-worth of bread is not sufficient to furnish every one of them a little.

²¹ there were certain Greeks, who address'd themselves to Philip, who was of Bethsaida in Galilee, saying, sir, we would fain see Jesus. ²² Philip went to tell Andrew: and then both of them mention'd it to Jesus.

²⁵ These things have I express'd in a figurative way: the time is coming when my language will be no longer enigmatical, but I shall give you a plain account relating to my father.

⁵⁶ Hypocrites, you can judge of the phoenomena of the earth, and of the sky, but why can't you discern the present times?

³⁰ I and my father are one.

⁴⁵ and he that contemplates me, contemplates him that sent me.

⁷ if you had known me, you would likewise have known my father: and from henceforth you shall know him, nay, you have seen him.

²⁰ then shall you know, that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you.

¹² Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

⁶ who tho' he was the image of God, did not affect to appear with divine majesty, but divested himself thereof,

¹⁵ he is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation.

¹ In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. ² the same was in the beginning with God. ³ all things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made.

³² and what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; but his testimony doth no man receive. ³³ he that hath received his testimony, hath set his seal to this, that God is true. ³⁴ for he whom God hath sent, saith nothing but what is divine: for God hath given him the spirit without restriction.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, my father works without intermission, and so do I.

¹⁹ upon which Jesus said to them, verily, verily I say unto you, the son can do nothing of himself, except he sees the father do it: for whatever he doth, that the son does likewise.

³⁸ for I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. ³⁹ and the will of him who sent me is this, that I should not lose any one of those he has given me, but should raise them again at the last day: this, ⁴⁰ I say, is the will of him that sent me, that every one who observes the son, and believeth on him, should have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

¹⁶ Jesus answered them, the doctrine I deliver is not my own, but his that sent me.

²⁸ Jesus then pursuing his discourse in the temple, rais'd his voice, and said, you know both who I am, and whence I am: however, I am not come of my self, but he that sent me is worthy of belief, him you are unacquainted with. ²⁹ but I know him, for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

²⁸ Jesus said therefore to them, when ye have lift up the son of man, then shall ye know what I am, and that I do nothing of my self, but speak as my father hath instructed me.

³⁸ what I have learnt from my father, that I tell: and what you have learnt from your father, that you do.

⁴⁰ but now ye seek to kill me, the man who has told you the truth, such as I have learnt it of God: Abraham did not act thus.

³⁸ but if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him.

²⁶ and no man living that believeth in me, shall ever die.

⁴⁹ for I have not spoken for my self; but the father who sent me, he commission'd me, what I should teach, and what I should speak.

²¹ that they all may be one, as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² and the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one. ²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

³⁸ how Jesus of Nazareth divinely inspired by the holy spirit, and with miraculous power, went about doing good, and healing all that were under the oppression of the devil: because God was with him.

¹⁹ for it is God that has reconciled the world to himself, by Jesus Christ, by not imputing their sins to them; and hath committed to us the gospel of reconciliation.

¹⁹ for it seemed good to the father to inhabit the whole body of the church by Christ:

⁷ There are three witnesses in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three testify the same thing.

⁴ Jesus answered them, go and relate to John, what you hear and what you see: ⁵ the blind recover their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

²¹ at that very time, he cured several of their diseases and distempers, dispossessing evil spirits, and restoring sight to many that were blind. ²² then he gave them this answer, go, and tell John what you have seen, and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the gospel is proclaim'd to the poor. ²³ and blessed is he, who does not make me the occasion of his fall.

³⁶ but I have a better witness than that of John: for the works which my father hath order'd me to finish, those very works that I do, bear me witness, that 'tis the father who sent me.

²⁵ Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye did not believe me: the works that I do in my father's name, they testify of me.

³² Jesus answered them, many good works have I shewed you from my father; for which of those works would you stone me?

³⁸ so that the passage of Esaias the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, "Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ therefore they could not believe, according to what Esaias said in another place, "he hath blinded their eyes, ⁴⁰ and hardned their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."

¹⁰ don't you believe that I am in the father, and the father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak indeed, tho' not from my self; but as to the works, the father, who dwells in me, he is the agent.

²² ye men of Israel attend to what I say; Jesus of Nazareth was a man whom God distinguished among you, by miracles, by prodigies, and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you your selves also know:

⁴ God also giving an additional testimony both by signs, by prodigies, by divers miracles, and gifts of the holy spirit, which he distributes as he pleases.

²¹ Jesus answered them, I declare to you, if ye have a full assurance of faith, ye shall not only be able to do this to a fig-tree, but if ye should even say to this mountain, be thou removed, and cast into the sea; it should be done.

¹³ and observing at a distance a fig-tree full of leaves, he went up to it to see if he could find any fruit upon it. but when he came to it, he found it had nothing but leaves, (for it was not the season for that sort of fig.)

¹⁷ they that believe shall be endued with these miraculous gifts: in my name they shall cast out demons: they shall speak new languages:

¹⁷ At length the seventy return'd with great joy, saying, Lord, even the demons have been made subject to us by virtue of your name. ¹⁸ upon which he said to them, I beheld satan falling, like lightning, from heaven. ¹⁹ I have authoriz'd you to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and triumph over all the power of the enemy; so that nothing shall be capable of doing you any mischief.

³³ then said Jesus, I shall be with you but for a little time, and then I shall go to him that sent me.

³⁹ (but this he meant of the spirit, which they that believed on him, should receive: for the spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

⁷ nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the advocate will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him to you.

⁴ and they were all filled with the holy ghost, and began to speak in different languages, as the spirit gave them utterance. ⁵ now many devout Jews were residing at Jerusalem, who came from all quarters of the world. ⁶ and upon the rumour of this event, the multitude came together, and were confounded, every man hearing the disciples speak in his own language. ⁷ struck with astonishment and admiration, they said to one another, are not these men who are speaking, all Galileans? ⁸ how comes it then that we hear every man talking in our own native tongue? ⁹ Parthians, Medes, Elamites, the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, ¹⁰ Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya about Cyrene, foreigners from Rome, Jews, and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretes, and Arabians, we hear them all proclaiming in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

³³ therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the father the promise of the holy spirit, he has diffused that spirit, the effects of which ye now see and hear.

⁴¹ then they that embraced his doctrine, were baptized: and there were about three thousand converts made that very day.

⁶ then Peter said, silver and gold have I none; but such as I have I give thee: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk. ⁷ and taking him by the right hand, he lift him up; and immediately his feet and ancle-bones received strength. ⁸ so that he fell a leaping, and walking, and entred with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

⁴ however, many who heard Peter's discourse, believed, to the number of about five thousand people.

⁹ since we are this day to be examined about the cure of a cripple, and by what means he was recovered; be it known to you all, ¹⁰ and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you entirely recover'd. ¹¹ this is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but is become the chief of the angle. ¹² salvation is not to be had by any other: for there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we can be saved.

¹⁶ saying, what shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all that dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

³³ Great was the power by which the apostles attested the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and they were all greatly favoured by the people.

¹⁵ insomuch that they brought the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least, the shadow of Peter might cover some of them, as he pass'd by.

⁷ thus the word of God was spread; and the number of disciples encreased very much at Jerusalem; and a numerous body of priests embrac'd the faith.

⁷ for the impure spirits, with great outcries, came out of many that were possessed: many paralytic, and lame people were cured.

³⁴ Peter said to him, Eneas, Jesus, who is the Messiah, gives thee health: rise, and make your bed your self: upon which he immediately rose.

⁴⁰ but Peter turn'd them all out, and kneeled down and prayed, then turning towards the body, Tabitha, said he, arise immediately. she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

⁴⁶ for they heard them express their praises to God in divers languages.

¹⁸ this she did for several days, till Paul tir'd with it turn'd about, and said to the spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ I command you to quit her; and instantly he came out.

¹² or aprons that had touch'd his skin, to the distemper'd, they were cured, and the evil spirits came out of the possessed.

¹⁹ by virtue of the miracles and prodigies wrought by the power of the divine spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and the neighbouring country, quite to Illyricum,

¹⁰ to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits; to another diversity of languages; to another the interpretation of languages. ¹¹ but all are wrought by one and the same spirit, distributing to every one in particular, as he thinks fit.

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and the door shall be opened.

²² and whatever ye shall ask in prayer, with faith, ye shall receive.

²⁴ therefore whenever you pray, be fully persuaded of obtaining your request, and I assure you it shall be granted, whatever it be.

⁹ I tell you likewise, ask, and it shall be given: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and the door shall be opened.

¹⁰ Jesus answered her, if you knew the dispensation of God, and who it is that says to you, give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.

¹⁴ but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: for the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a fountain springing up to everlasting life.

³⁷ In the last day, the most solemn day of the feast, Jesus being there, raised his voice, and said, if any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

³¹ When he was gone, Jesus said, now is the son of man glorified, and God is glorified by him.

⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man can come to the father, but by me.

¹⁴ when ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

⁷ if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and you shall obtain it.

¹⁶ it was not you that chose me, but I that chose you, and establish'd you, that your travels may be fruitful, and your fruit be lasting: so that whatever ye shall ask of the father for my sake, he will give it you.

²³ tho' then you cannot ask any thing of me in person, whatever ye shall ask the father in my name, I assure you he will grant it.

²⁶ though then ye shall ask in my name: I need not promise, that I will pray the father for you;

⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ⁵ and now, O father, glorify me in heaven, with the glory which I had before the creation of the world.

⁸ I besought the Lord thrice, to make him leave me.

¹² by whom we have freedom of access to God, with confidence, by faith in him.

¹⁴ for this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do infinitely above what we ask or comprehend, by his power operating in us, ²¹ unto him be glory in the church, even by Christ Jesus, thro' all the successions of future ages. amen.

⁹ wherefore God has highly exalted and given him a name, which is above every name; ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus both angels and men, the living and the dead, should pay their adorations, ¹¹ and that every nation should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of God the father.

¹³ to these things I am equal, thro' Christ who strengthens me.

¹⁷ let your discourse and your actions be all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.

¹⁵ not an high priest who is incapable of compassionating our miseries; since he was exposed to the same trials as we are, sin only excepted. let

¹⁵ Let our sacrifice then, which we are to offer to God by Jesus Christ, be that of incessant praises, the offering of our lips, which celebrate his name:

⁵ If any of you is deficient in prudence, let him ask it of God, who liberally gives to all without upbraiding: and he will give it.

¹⁶ confess then to one another the offences you have committed, and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the fervent prayer of a virtuous man has great influence.

⁵ you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.

²² whatever we ask, we shall receive it of him, because we keep his commandments, and do what is agreeable to him.

¹⁴ Besides, we have this confidence in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he will hear us.

³⁷ he that loveth father or mother more than me, is unworthy of me: he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is unworthy of me.

³⁴ the king shall say to those on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ for I was prest with hunger, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: ³⁶ naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye took care of me: I was in prison, and ye visited me. ³⁷ then will the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee in hunger, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ or when did we see thee sick, or in prison, and visited thee? ⁴⁰ and the king will reply, I declare unto you, your having done this for one of the least of these my brethren, is the same thing as doing it for me.

⁴² Jesus said to them, if God were your father, ye would love me: for I was commissioned by God to come; I did not come of my self, but he sent me.

²¹ he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him. ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, why Lord, will you show your self to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. ²⁴ he does not love me, who does not observe my precepts: for the doctrine which you have heard, is not mine, but the father's who sent me.

¹⁰ your love to me will be in keeping my commandments: even as I love my father by keeping his commandments. ¹¹ These things have I spoken to you, that you might have some present comfort, and that hereafter your joy might be compleat. ¹² this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ you will be my friends, if you do what I have commanded you.

¹⁵ So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas, do you love me more than these do? yes, Lord, said he, you know that I love you. Jesus reply'd, feed my lambs. ¹⁶ then he ask'd him the second time, Simon son of Jonas do you love me? yes, Lord, said he; you know that I love you. Jesus reply'd, feed my sheep. ¹⁷ Jesus said to him the third time, Simon son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter was grieved at his asking him the third time, "do you love me?" and he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.

²² If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accurst.

¹⁴ to this I am urg'd by the love I bear to Christ, persuaded as I am, that if one died for all, then were all in a dying state: and that he died for all, ¹⁵ that they who are in a state of life should not live at their own discretion, but to the service of him who died for them, and rose again.

⁸ I don't mean to prescribe to you, but that the zeal of others may show you are as sincerely well-affected. ⁹ for you are sensible of the beneficence of our Lord Jesus Christ; powerful as he was, for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.

⁶ for in the christian-dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but an active benevolent faith.

¹⁶ that by his immense power he would strengthen the faculties of your minds by his spirit: ¹⁷ so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ. ¹⁸ Be ye rooted and grounded in social virtue, that you may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of this mystery:

²⁴ grace be with all those that have love uncorrupted for our Lord Jesus Christ. amen.

²⁰ agreeably to that expectation and persuasion I have, that I shall not labour in vain; but as I always have, so I shall still glorify Christ in my body, whether it be by life or by death: for if I live, I live to Christ; ²¹ and if I die, I gain. ²² whether it be an advantage to me or not still to lead this mortal life, what to chuse I cannot tell. ²³ I am doubly press'd between my desire to depart, in order to be with Christ, which is by far the best for ME;

⁷ these advantages I renounce for Christ, ⁸ nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be his true disciple, not professing that justification, which is derived from the law, but that which is from the gospel, ¹⁰ the justification which God grants to those who acknowledge Christ and the power of his resurrection, who suffer after his example, and die to sin, as he died to the world, ¹¹ in order to obtain the resurrection of the just.

⁸ whom though you have not seen, you love: and though he is not now the object of your view, yet you believe in him, and triumph with such a laudable transport, as cannot be express'd:

³ if we keep his commandments, that is a proof that we know him. ⁴ he that says, he knows him, and does not keep his commandments, is a lyar, and an enemy to the truth: ⁵ but he that observes his precepts, loves God with a true and perfect love: 'tis by this we know that we are truly christians.

¹⁹ let us love him; since he first loved us. ²⁰ if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?

² by this we may know that we love the children of God, if we love God, and keep his commandments. ³ for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.

⁶ now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct.

²⁰ teaching them to observe every thing which I have enjoin'd you: and be assured I shall be always with you to the end of the world.

¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I will come again to you.

²⁶ but the advocate, the holy spirit, whom the father will send for my sake, he will explain every thing to you, and make you remember, all that I have told you.

²⁶ but when the advocate is come, whom I will send to you from the father, even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the father, he shall testify of me.

⁷ nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the advocate will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him to you. ⁸ and when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, of justice, of judgment: ⁹ of sin, because they believ'd not on me; ¹⁰ of justice, because I shall be with my father, and ye shall see me no more expos'd: ¹¹ of judgment, because the prince of this world is condemn'd. ¹² I have yet many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now; ¹³ but when he, the spirit of truth shall come, he will inform you of all those truths: for he will not speak from himself; but the information he shall receive will he communicate: and acquaint you with what is to come. ¹⁴ he shall glorify me: for he will commuincate to you, the information, which I shall give him. ¹⁵ all that the father has is mine: that is the reason of my saying, "he shall communicate to you the information that I shall give him."

²² so you are afflicted at present: but I will see you again, and then shall your hearts be affected with joy, and your joy shall no one wrest from you.

²⁶ though then ye shall ask in my name: I need not promise, that I will pray the father for you; ²⁷ for the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I had my mission from God.

⁹ "It is for them I pray: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, because they are thine. ¹⁰ for every thing that is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine, and I am glorified by them. ¹¹ and now I shall be no more in the world, but they will be in the world, when I am come to thee. holy father keep them by that authority, with which thou hast invested me, that they may be one, as we are.

¹⁵ I do not pray you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the malignity of it.

²⁰ neither pray I for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on me through their preaching.

³¹ Then the churches in all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, were unmolested and establish'd, and by their religious conduct, and the assistance of the holy spirit, grew more extensive.

⁵² and the disciples were filled with joy, and with the holy spirit.

⁵ now hope will not deceive us, because the love of God is diffused thro' our hearts, by the holy spirit which is given to us;

¹⁵ for the spirit you have received is not servile to keep you still in fear; but it is the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, that is, father. ¹⁶ the same spirit testifies to our spirit, that we are the children of God.

²⁶ The spirit likewise softens our afflictions: for being at a loss to apply for the most proper relief; the spirit it self affects us with those pious ejaculations, which we can't well express. ²⁷ and he that penetrates into the heart approves what the spirit desires, because what he demands for the saints is agreeable to the divine will.

³⁴ who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us?

¹⁷ for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy.

¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy spirit.

²² but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

¹³ by whom you also have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: and having believed in him, ye were mark'd with the seal of the holy spirit, which was promised: ¹⁴ and this is the pledge of our inheritance, being given for the deliverance of his peculiar people, to the display of his glory.

¹ If then there be any christian consolation, any charitable relief, any communion of the spirit, if any tenderness of compassion,

³ for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God. ⁴ Christ is your life, and when he shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ, and God our father, who has loved us, and by his favour given us the advantageous hopes of eternal joys, consolate your souls,

¹ My dear children, these things I write unto you, that ye may avoid sin. but if any man has failed, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the just.

²⁰ for it is not properly you that speak, but the spirit of your father that speaketh by you.

¹⁶ and I will pray the father, and he shall give you another advocate, to abide with you for ever;

²³ Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

¹³ but when he, the spirit of truth shall come, he will inform you of all those truths: for he will not speak from himself; but the information he shall receive will he communicate: and acquaint you with what is to come.

⁹ you are not in such a state, but in a spiritual one, provided the divine spirit dwell in you. now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. ¹⁰ and if Christ be in you, tho' the body is mortal in consequence of sin; the spirit gives life by justification. ¹¹ for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

¹³ for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy. ¹⁴ as many as are actuated by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

¹⁴ but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁶ Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?

¹⁹ what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

¹⁵ what then is to be done? why, I will pray by the spirit, but my prayer shall be intelligible: I will sing by the spirit, but my hymn shall be intelligible.

¹⁶ and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, "I will dwell with, and walk among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

⁵ Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; bring yourselves to the proof; are you so little acquainted with yourselves, as not to know whether Jesus Christ be in you? but if you are destitute of proofs,

⁶ and because ye are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying Abba, that is, father;

²² who by his spirit has likewise made you a part of this divine mansion.

¹⁷ so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ.

²⁷ to whom God does disclose the glorious advantages of this mystery to you Gentiles, to wit, "that by Christ you may have the expectation of glory."

¹⁴ that valuable depositum do you preserve by the holy spirit, which resides in us.

²⁷ but as the unction which ye have received from him, abides in you, you don't need any instruction: being then fully instructed by his unction, which is true and not fallacious, adhere to what that has taught you.

²⁴ he that observes his commandments, dwelleth in God, and God in him: and hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the spirit which he hath given us.

⁴ ye are of God, my dear children, and you have overcome them: because he that is in you, is superior to him that is in the world.

⁶ we are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. by this we distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of imposture.

¹² no man hath ever seen God. if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere. ¹³ Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit.

¹⁷ he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches: to him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man understands, except he that receives it."

²⁰ for where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

³ and when I am gone, and have prepar'd a place for you, I will come again, to take you with me, that where I am there ye may be also.

³³ these things I have appriz'd you of, that ye might repose your confidence in me. the world shall give you trouble: but take courage, I have overcome the world.

² and peace be to you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the God, and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all consolation: ⁴ who comforteth me in all my tribulations, that I may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith I myself am comforted of God. ⁵ for as I have greatly suffered for Christ, so I have been greatly comforted thro' Christ. ⁶ but whether I am afflicted, it is for your consolation and relief, which is effected by your perseverance, patiently enduring the same sufferings which I also undergo: or whether I am comforted, it is for your consolation and relief.

¹⁸ for having himself stood the test of sufferings, he is capable of being moved to relieve those who undergo such tryals.

⁵⁶ he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ as the father who is the source of life hath sent me, and I live by the father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. ⁵⁸ this is that bread which came down from heaven: very different from that manna, which your fathers did eat but died nevertheless: he that eateth of this bread, shall live for ever.

²¹ Jesus therefore repeated what he had said, "I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your incredulity, so that whither I go, ye cannot come."

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me shall live even though he were dead:

³⁵ Jesus answer'd them, yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have the light, lest darkness surprize you: for he that walketh in darkness, does not know whither he goes.

¹⁶ Within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father.

¹⁰ for if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son: much more being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

²⁰ But Christ is actually risen, as previous to those who were dead.

¹⁰ always bearing about in my body the marks of sufferings like those of Jesus, so that Jesus might be plainly prov'd to be alive by the sufferings of my body. ¹¹ for as long as I live I shall be exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest by the preservation of our mortal life. ¹² so that I suffer the influences of his death, while you only feel the effects of his life.

¹ Concerning the Logos, the author of Life, we declare what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have consider'd, and what has been the object of our touch. ² for the life was manifested, we have seen it, we testify of it, and denounce unto you, that eternal life which was with the father, and was manifested unto us. ³ what we have seen and heard, we declare unto you, that ye also may be of the same society with us: and truly associated with the father, and with his son Jesus Christ.

⁵⁶ he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for independent of me ye can do nothing. ⁶ if a man abide not in me, he is cast away as withered branches that are gather'd up to be thrown into the fire, where they are burned. ⁷ if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and you shall obtain it.

⁷ now they believe that the instructions you gave me came from thee.

¹¹ and now I shall be no more in the world, but they will be in the world, when I am come to thee. holy father keep them by that authority, with which thou hast invested me, that they may be one, as we are.

¹ Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life.

⁷ salute Andronicus and Junias my relations, and fellow-prisoners, who are distinguish'd among the apostles,

³⁰ for from him it is that ye believe in Christ Jesus, whom God has made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that,

¹⁷ therefore, if any man be a christian, he is in a new creation: the old state of things is chang'd to one entirely new.

² I knew a christian who above fourteen years ago, was snatch'd up even to the third heaven, whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows.

²⁰ I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

¹⁰ for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.

¹² no man hath ever seen God. if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere.

²⁸ but rather, said he, happy are they who hear the word of God, and put it in practice.

¹⁵ if ye love me, keep my commandments.

⁹ as the father has loved me, and I have loved you: so do you persevere in your love to me. ¹⁰ your love to me will be in keeping my commandments: even as I love my father by keeping his commandments.

¹⁴ you will be my friends, if you do what I have commanded you.

¹⁴ he shall glorify me: for he will commuincate to you, the information, which I shall give him.

²⁷ for the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I had my mission from God.

⁹ then the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "be not afraid, but speak, and be not silenc'd: ¹⁰ (since I am with thee, and no man shall lift up his hand so as to hurt thee:) for my people in this city are numerous." ¹¹ so he continued there a year and a half preaching the word of God among them.

¹⁸ then I saw JESUS, who said to me, "make haste, and go out of Jerusalem immediately: for they will not receive the attestations you would give of me." Lord,

¹⁸ but as we lay aside the veil, the divine light gradually informs the mind, according as we attend to that spiritual sense, which points out the Lord.

⁸ I besought the Lord thrice, to make him leave me.

¹⁷ however the Lord assisted and strengthen'd me, that the gospel might be confirm'd by my remonstrance, and all the nations might hear it; so that I was deliver'd out of the mouth of the lion: ¹⁸ and the Lord will deliver me from every malicious design, and preserve me for his heavenly kingdom. to him be glory to endless ages. amen.

²² the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. grace be with you. AMEN.

²³ it was then, that those words of scripture were accomplished, "Abraham believed God, and he was regarded for it as a man of virtue, and was the favourite of God." ²⁴ you see then, that a man is accounted just for his actions, and not for his bare faith.

⁵ but he that observes his precepts, loves God with a true and perfect love: 'tis by this we know that we are truly christians.

¹ Consider what proof the father has given us of his love, in allowing us to be called the sons of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it knew him not.

¹⁸ my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart. ¹⁹ Hereby we shall know that we are true professors, and set our consciences securely at rest. ²⁰ for if our conscience condemn us, God knows us better than we do our selves, he knoweth all things. ²¹ beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we may securely confide in God. ²² whatever we ask, we shall receive it of him, because we keep his commandments, and do what is agreeable to him. ²³ now this is his commandment, that we believe in his son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, as he commanded us. ²⁴ he that observes his commandments, dwelleth in God, and God in him: and hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the spirit which he hath given us.

³ for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.

²⁰ behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, I will sup with him, and he shall afterwards be entertain'd by me.

¹⁴ blessed are they who wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."

³ James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the publican, James the son of Alpheus, and Labbeus, whose sirname was Thaddeus, Simon the zelot,

¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite,

¹⁶ Jude the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who prov'd the traitor.

⁴ Nicodemus replied, how can a man be born when he is old? can he enter into his mother, and be born a second time?

⁹ Nicodemus answered, how can that be?

¹¹ sir, said the woman, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then can you get that living water?

⁵² Upon this the Jews disputed among themselves, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?

⁶⁰ when many of his disciples, who heard him, said, this is strange doctrine, who can hear it?

¹⁷ then said some of his disciples among themselves, what is the meaning of his saying, "within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father?" ¹⁸ for, said they, we cannot comprehend the meaning of that expression, "within a little while?"

¹³ When they were arrived there, they went up into an upper room, where Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zelot, and Judas the brother of James used to resort,

⁴⁰ but God raised him up the third day, and shewed him openly, ⁴¹ not to all the people, but to those witnesses, which God had before chosen: to us, I say, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.

¹ Jude the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those that are sanctified by God the father, and by their vocation are reserved for Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, my father works without intermission, and so do I. ¹⁸ therefore the Jews were the more eager to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but likewise, because he had said that God was his proper father, making himself equal with God. ¹⁹ upon which Jesus said to them, verily, verily I say unto you, the son can do nothing of himself, except he sees the father do it: for whatever he doth, that the son does likewise.

¹⁷ even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows him: but ye shall know him, for he shall dwell with you, and shall be in you.

²¹ he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him.

²⁴ adhere therefore to what ye have learnt from the beginning. if you adhere to what ye have heard from the beginning, you will still persist to own both the son and the father.

¹⁵ whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

²⁰ behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, I will sup with him, and he shall afterwards be entertain'd by me. ²¹ to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my father in his throne.

²² I did not see any temple there: for the Lord God almighty, and the lamb are its temple.

³ There shall be nothing obnoxious to a curse: but the throne of God and of the lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.

²¹ Jesus said, if thou wilt be perfect, go sell your estate, give the value to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: then come and follow me.

⁴¹ then will he say to those on the left, depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² for I was prest with hunger, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: ⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. ⁴⁴ then will they answer, Lord, when did we see thee in hunger, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? ⁴⁵ to this he will reply, I declare unto you, your not doing this for one of the least of these, is the same thing as not doing it for me. ⁴⁶ and these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

³⁴ for he whom God hath sent, saith nothing but what is divine: for God hath given him the spirit without restriction.

³⁸ nor will his Logos abide among you: for tho' he hath sent him, you do not believe him.

²⁸ Jesus then pursuing his discourse in the temple, rais'd his voice, and said, you know both who I am, and whence I am: however, I am not come of my self, but he that sent me is worthy of belief, him you are unacquainted with.

²⁶ I have many things to say against you: but I only say He that sent me is worthy of belief; and what I have heard of Him, that only I publish to the world.

⁴⁴ Then Jesus rais'd his voice, and said, he that believeth on me, does not so much believe on me, as on him that sent me. ⁴⁵ and he that contemplates me, contemplates him that sent me. ⁴⁶ I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me, might not abide in darkness. ⁴⁷ but if any man hear my words, and does not believe them, it is not I that condemn him: for I came not to condemn the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸ he that rejecteth me, and does not embrace my doctrine, hath one that condemns him: the doctrine that I have delivered, that shall condemn him in the last day. ⁴⁹ for I have not spoken for my self; but the father who sent me, he commission'd me, what I should teach, and what I should speak. ⁵⁰ and I know that it is a commission of eternal life: whatever therefore I say, I deliver just as the father directed me.

¹⁶ this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ he that possesses the enjoyments of life, and seeing his brother in want, has no compassion for him, how can he be said to have any divine love? ¹⁸ my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart. ¹⁹ Hereby we shall know that we are true professors, and set our consciences securely at rest. ²⁰ for if our conscience condemn us, God knows us better than we do our selves, he knoweth all things.

²⁹ this I have told you now, before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye may believe. my conversation will now be but short with you,

¹¹ These things have I spoken to you, that you might have some present comfort, and that hereafter your joy might be compleat.

¹ I have told you these things that ye may not be discouraged. ² they shall expel you out of the synagogues: yea, the time is coming, when it will be thought an agreeable sacrifice to God for any one to take away your lives. ³ and thus will they treat you, because they have not known the father, nor me. ⁴ but these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember what I now tell you. I did not tell you so much at the beginning, because, I was then to be with you.

¹² I have yet many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now;

⁶ I have displayed thy name among those whom you have chosen out of the world for me: thine they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept thy word. ⁷ now they believe that the instructions you gave me came from thee. ⁸ for I have given to them the instructions which you gave me; and they have received them; and have sincerely believ'd that I came from thee, and are persuaded that thou didst send me.

¹⁸ Now the manner of Christ's birth was this: his mother Mary being promised in marriage to Joseph, before they came together, she became pregnant by the holy Spirit.

²⁰ but while he was revolving this in his mind, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, the off-spring of David, don't make any difficulty of taking Mary for thy wife: for her pregnancy is from the holy Spirit.

¹¹ I indeed baptize you with water to lead you to repentance; but he that cometh after me, is my superiour, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry: he shall baptize you with the effusion of the holy Ghost, in the appearance of fire:

¹⁹ go and instruct all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost:

³⁶ for David himself, who was inspired by the holy spirit, has this expression, "the Lord said to my Lord, sit thou at my right hand till I make thy enemies thy foot-stool."

¹¹ now when they shall lead you to deliver you up, be not sollicitous about your defence, don't premeditate upon it; but what shall be suggested to you at the very occasion, that deliver: for it is not you that will plead, but the holy spirit.

¹⁵ he shall appear as a divine messenger. he shall drink neither wine, nor any other strong liquor: he shall be filled with the holy spirit, even from his infancy:

³⁵ the angel answered her, "the holy spirit shall descend upon thee, and the power of the most high shall over-shadow thee: wherefore thy holy offspring shall be called the son of God.

⁴¹ no sooner had Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, but the babe leap'd within her:

⁶⁷ Then Zacharias his father, inspired by the holy spirit, vented his divine enthusiasm in these words.

²⁵ At that time there dwelt at Jerusalem one Simeon, an honest, religious man, one who expected the appearance of the Messiah, and was endued with the spirit of prophecy.

²² and the holy spirit descended upon him in a corporeal form like a dove. and a voice came from heaven, which said, thou art my beloved son, in thee I am well pleased.

¹³ if ye then, wicked as ye are, know how to give what is proper to your children: how much more shall your heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him?

⁴⁹ and I am going to send you what my father has promis'd you. but continue in the city of Jerusalem, until you shall be endued with power from on high.

²² and when he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembred that expression of his: and they believed the scripture, and what Jesus had said.

⁴⁵ it is written in the prophets, "they shall be all taught of God." every man therefore that hath heard the father, and been instructed by him, cometh unto me.

¹⁶ this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

¹³ but when he, the spirit of truth shall come, he will inform you of all those truths: for he will not speak from himself; but the information he shall receive will he communicate: and acquaint you with what is to come. ¹⁴ he shall glorify me: for he will commuincate to you, the information, which I shall give him.

²² and when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "receive ye the holy spirit.

² after he had given the apostles he had chosen, the orders they were to execute by the holy spirit.

⁴ being with them when they were assembled, he order'd they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what the father had promis'd, which, said he, I mention'd.

⁸ but ye shall receive the influence of the holy spirit, which will descend upon you: and ye shall be witnesses for me, in Jerusalem, in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth.

⁴ and they were all filled with the holy ghost, and began to speak in different languages, as the spirit gave them utterance.

³ upon which Peter said, Ananias, how could satan inspire thine heart to lye to the holy ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

⁵¹ stubborn people, whose hearts and ears like the uncircumcised, are always averse to the holy spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

⁵⁵ but he, full of the holy spirit, fix'd his eyes towards heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

¹⁶ then I remember'd that expression of the Lord, "John baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy spirit."

² as they were ministring to the Lord, and fasting, the holy spirit said to them, separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have destin'd them.

⁴ being thus appointed missionarys by the holy spirit, they went to Seleucia, where they embark'd for Cyprus.

⁸ God who knows their hearts has granted them a testimonial, by giving them the holy spirit, even as he did to us:

²⁸ for by the holy spirit it seemed good to us, to lay no greater burthen upon you, than these necessary injunctions;

⁶ but after they had travers'd Phrygia and Galatia, they were order'd by the holy spirit not to preach the gospel in Asia:

²⁸ be therefore upon your guard to secure your selves, and the whole flock over which the holy spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

³⁵ my constant example has shown you that the disabled should be assisted by your labours, remembring the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, "it is a greater happiness to give than to receive."

²⁵ so not being able to agree, they retir'd, upon Paul's having told them, that the holy spirit had very justly said to our fathers by the prophet Esaias,

¹⁰ this is what God has revealed to us by his spirit: for the spirit penetrates into all things, even the profound counsels of God. ¹¹ for who knows the thoughts of a man, but the spirit of man which is in him? even so the thoughts of God no one can know, but the spirit of God. ¹² now the spirit which we have received, is not the spirit of this world, but that which comes from God; that we might know what he has graciously bestowed upon us. ¹³ this is what we declare, not in the words which human wisdom, but which the holy spirit dictates; explaining spiritual things in a spiritual language.

³ wherefore I give you to understand, that no man who has the spirit of God, can pronounce Jesus anathema: and that no man can acknowledge Jesus to be the Lord, but by the holy spirit.

⁶ I approve myself, by chastity, by knowledge, by meekness, by kindness, by sanctity of mind, by undisguised benevolence,

¹⁴ the favour of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communication of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. amen.

¹³ by whom you also have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: and having believed in him, ye were mark'd with the seal of the holy spirit, which was promised:

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, whereby ye may know him:

³⁰ grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom you are sealed against the day of deliverance:

⁵ since the gospel we preach'd, did not consist only of words, but was fully confirm'd by miracles and gifts of the holy spirit, you yourselves being witnesses, what we did among you and for you. ⁶ and you imitated us, and were imitators of the Lord, having receiv'd the word, notwithstanding all your afflictions, with that alacrity, which the holy spirit inspires.

⁸ he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.

⁵ he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

⁷ Wherefore as the holy spirit saith, "since to-day you hear his voice,

¹⁵ and this is what the holy spirit declares, when after having said,

¹² and were answer'd, that it was not they, but we, who were concern'd in the events which they predicted, events which have been now represented to you by those, whom the holy spirit from heaven inspired to preach the gospel to you: a secret which the angels desire to penetrate into.

²¹ from the prophet's OWN MOTION; but the holy men of God spoke by the IMPULSE of the holy spirit.

²⁰ As for you who have receiv'd the unction of the holy spirit, you know the whole affair.

²⁰ but you, my brethren, improve yourselves in your most holy faith, present your addresses by the holy spirit,

¹¹ he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith to the churches, he that overcometh, shall not be hurt by the second death."

²⁶ fear them not therefore: for there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed; or secret that shall not be made known.

⁷⁹ to enlighten those, who are in darkness, and in the shadow of death, and to direct our steps into the ways of peace."

¹⁴ "glory to God in the heavens, and to men on earth felicity in the divine favour."

⁵ at your entrance into any house, first say, prosperity be to this family.

⁴ As for you, my friends, be not afraid of those, who can kill the body, and after that can effect nothing more.

¹ Let not your heart be troubled: you trust in God, trust also in me.

¹⁹ The same day at evening, being the first day of the week, the doors of the house where the disciples were, being shut, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, peace be with you.

²¹ then said Jesus to them again, "peace be with you: as my father hath sent me, even so send I you."

²⁶ Eight days after, when his disciples were again in private, and Thomas with them: Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, peace be with you.

³⁶ this was what he communicated to the children of Israel, proclaiming salvation by Jesus Christ, who is the Lord of all mankind.

⁹ then the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "be not afraid, but speak, and be not silenc'd:

⁷ to all the beloved of God, the saints by this vocation, who are in Rome, grace to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁶ now sensual inclinations lead to death; but spiritual affections to a life of tranquillity.

³ grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ Now this is all owing to God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath made us the ministers of this reconciliation; ¹⁹ for it is God that has reconciled the world to himself, by Jesus Christ, by not imputing their sins to them; and hath committed to us the gospel of reconciliation. ²⁰ we then are ambassadors for Christ, and 'tis God who makes you the offers by us: we pray you in the name of Christ, to make your peace with God. ²¹ for he hath made him who knew no sin to be a sin-offering for us, that we might be justified by God thro' him.

³ and from our Lord Jesus Christ: who gave himself for our sins,

¹⁶ as many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, even upon the Israel of God.

¹⁴ for he is our peace-maker, who hath united both Jew and Gentile, and hath by his flesh broken down the middle wall of partition ¹⁵ (which kept us at variance) by abolishing the dogmatical injunctions of the law, that having made the peace, he might incorporate the two into one new body under himself; ¹⁶ that he might reconcile both in one body unto God by the cross, wherefore he destroyed the enmity that was between them: ¹⁷ and being come, he preached the glad tidings of peace to YOU who were afar off, and to US that were nigh.

⁷ and the favour of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall keep your hearts and mind attach'd to Jesus Christ.

² to our faithful brethren the christian converts at Coloss. favour and peace be to you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁰ and having made peace by the blood of his cross, to reconcile all things to himself, both those in heaven, and those upon earth.

¹⁵ may the peace of Christ, to which you are called to be but one body, influence your hearts, to be benevolent.

² favour and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Now the Lord of peace grant you continual peace in all respects. the Lord be with you all.

⁷ for the spirit, which God has given us, is not a spirit of timidity, but of fortitude, of benevolence, and of moderation.

² to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of the whole booty: first, being by the signification of his name king of justice, and in fact king of Salem, which is, king of peace;

²⁰ May the God of peace, who has raised from the dead our Lord Jesus (who by the blood of the eternal covenant is become the grand pastor of

⁴ JOHN to the seven churches which are in Asia: favour and peace be with you from him WHO IS, WHO WAS, WHO WILL BE; and from the seven spirits who are before his throne;

¹⁰ fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

⁸ but the fearful, and incredulous, the abominable, the murderer, the licentious, the poisoner, the idolater, and every lyar shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: this is the second death."

¹⁸ "behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew justice to the nations.

⁵¹ and while he was blessing them, he was taken from them, and carried up into heaven. ⁵² and they worship'd him, and with great joy return'd to Jerusalem, ⁵³ where they daily praised and blessed God in the temple.

¹⁸ therefore the Jews were the more eager to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but likewise, because he had said that God was his proper father, making himself equal with God.

²⁹ my father who gave them me, is greater than all: so that no one is able to force them out of my father's hand. ³⁰ I and my father are one.

¹⁶ I declare unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord, neither he that is sent, greater than he that sent him.

² in my father's house are many mansions; however, I have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you: ³ and when I am gone, and have prepar'd a place for you, I will come again, to take you with me, that where I am there ye may be also. ⁴ and where I am going you know, and the way ye know.

¹² I assure you, he that believeth on me, shall likewise perform the works that I do; nay, greater works than these shall he do; because for that end am I going to my father.

¹⁶ Within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father. ¹⁷ then said some of his disciples among themselves, what is the meaning of his saying, "within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father?" ¹⁸ for, said they, we cannot comprehend the meaning of that expression, "within a little while?" ¹⁹ now Jesus perceiving that they had a mind to ask him, said to them, are you sollicitous about what I said, "within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again?" ²⁰ verily, verily I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. ²¹ a woman when she is in travail, is afflicted at the approach of her pains: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, the remembrance of her anguish, is lost in her joy, that a man is born into the world. ²² so you are afflicted at present: but I will see you again, and then shall your hearts be affected with joy, and your joy shall no one wrest from you.

¹⁷ that is to say, master! Jesus said to her, touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, "I ascend unto my father and your father, even my God and your God."

³ but I would have you take notice, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife, is the man; and the head of Christ, is God.

²⁴ and then will be the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God even the father; after having abolished all rule, and all authority, and power. ²⁵ for he must reign, "till God has cast all his enemies under his feet." ²⁶ the last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death. ²⁷ for he hath subjected all things to him. but when it is said all things are subjected, it is plain that he is to be excepted, who did subject all things to him. ²⁸ and when all things shall be reduced under subjection to him, then shall the son also himself be subject to him that put all things under his subjection, that God may be all in all.

⁶ who tho' he was the image of God, did not affect to appear with divine majesty, but divested himself thereof, ⁷ by assuming the form of a servant: being made in the likeness of men, ⁸ and his whole exterior showing nothing more than a meer man, he abased himself, and carried his submission so far as to die, even the death of the cross.

² whom he hath constituted heir of all things, by whom also be made the world. ³ who being the radiation of his glory, and the imprest image of his substance, and governing all things by his powerful command, after having himself made expiation for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the divine majesty in the highest heavens.

⁹ but Jesus, who was for a while inferior to the angels by his sufferings and death, we see was crown'd with glory and honour; when by the divine goodness, he had pass'd thro' death for every man. ¹⁰ For it was agreeable to his wisdom, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to consecrate the author of their salvation by his sufferings. ¹¹ for both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all deriv'd from one: for which cause he is not asham'd to call them brethren, saying, ¹² "I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee." ¹³ and again, "I will put my trust in him." and again, "behold, I, and the children which God hath given me. ¹⁴ Since then the children were made subject to a state of mortality, so he himself likewise was subject to the same condition: that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; ¹⁵ and deliver them who thro' fear of death were all their life-time in a state of slavery.

¹ Wherefore, christian brethren, you who are called to an heavenly inheritance, consider the apostle and high priest of the faith we profess, even Christ Jesus; ² who was faithful to him that constituted him such, as Moses likewise was faithful in all his administration of God's house. ³ but as the architect is of much greater dignity than the house he has made; so the glory which Christ received was greater than that of Moses. ⁴ no house is without a builder; now he that built the whole house of Israel is God.

¹¹ saying, "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, what you shall see, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia; to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

¹⁷ as soon as I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead: but he laid his right hand upon me, and said, "Fear not; I am the first and the last: ¹⁸ I am he that liveth; I was dead; but now you see I am alive for all eternity, amen; and I have the keys of the grave, and of death."

²⁴ for there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew such astonishing miracles and prodigies, as to deceive, if that can do it, the very converts themselves. ²⁵ remember, I have forewarn'd you.

⁴ but these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember what I now tell you. I did not tell you so much at the beginning, because, I was then to be with you. ⁵ but now I am going to him that sent me; yet none of you ask me now, whither are you going? ⁶ are your minds so overwhelm'd with sorrow at what I told you? ⁷ nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the advocate will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him to you. ⁸ and when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, of justice, of judgment: ⁹ of sin, because they believ'd not on me; ¹⁰ of justice, because I shall be with my father, and ye shall see me no more expos'd: ¹¹ of judgment, because the prince of this world is condemn'd. ¹² I have yet many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now; ¹³ but when he, the spirit of truth shall come, he will inform you of all those truths: for he will not speak from himself; but the information he shall receive will he communicate: and acquaint you with what is to come. ¹⁴ he shall glorify me: for he will commuincate to you, the information, which I shall give him. ¹⁵ all that the father has is mine: that is the reason of my saying, "he shall communicate to you the information that I shall give him." ¹⁶ Within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father. ¹⁷ then said some of his disciples among themselves, what is the meaning of his saying, "within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father?" ¹⁸ for, said they, we cannot comprehend the meaning of that expression, "within a little while?" ¹⁹ now Jesus perceiving that they had a mind to ask him, said to them, are you sollicitous about what I said, "within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again?" ²⁰ verily, verily I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. ²¹ a woman when she is in travail, is afflicted at the approach of her pains: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, the remembrance of her anguish, is lost in her joy, that a man is born into the world. ²² so you are afflicted at present: but I will see you again, and then shall your hearts be affected with joy, and your joy shall no one wrest from you. ²³ tho' then you cannot ask any thing of me in person, whatever ye shall ask the father in my name, I assure you he will grant it. ²⁴ hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be compleat. ²⁵ These things have I express'd in a figurative way: the time is coming when my language will be no longer enigmatical, but I shall give you a plain account relating to my father. ²⁶ though then ye shall ask in my name: I need not promise, that I will pray the father for you; ²⁷ for the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I had my mission from God. ²⁸ I was sent by the father, and am come into the world: but now I leave the world, and am going to my father. ²⁹ His disciples said to him, what you say now is plain, and not enigmatical. ³⁰ now we are convinc'd that you know all our difficulties, and have no occasion that any man should propose them to you: by this we believe that you were sent from God. ³¹ Jesus answered them, you now believe.

⁵³ I was daily with you in the temple, and you never offer'd to seize me: but now you have your hour, and the prince of darkness his day.

⁴⁴ then he said, this is what I told you, while I was yet with you, that what has been written concerning me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the psalms, must be all accomplished. ⁴⁵ then he open'd their minds to make them understand the scriptures, and said to them, ⁴⁶ thus it is written, and thus it behov'd Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: ⁴⁷ and that repentance and remission of sins should be preach'd in his name, among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ you are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ and I am going to send you what my father has promis'd you. but continue in the city of Jerusalem, until you shall be endued with power from on high.

³¹ now is this world condemn'd: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

¹¹ of judgment, because the prince of this world is condemn'd. ¹² I have yet many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now;

³ to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, of which they had many proofs, during the forty days he appear'd to them, and inform'd them about the reign of the Messias:

⁴ to those unbelievers, whose minds the God of this world has so blinded, that the glorious lustre of the gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

²¹ for he hath made him who knew no sin to be a sin-offering for us, that we might be justified by God thro' him.

² in which you formerly liv'd, influenc'd by the customs of this world, and by the prince of the aerial powers, the spirits that now actuate the incredulous:

¹² for our conflict is not barely with men, but with principalities, with potentates, with the princes of darkness, with wicked aereal spirits.

¹³ who has deliver'd you from the state of darkness, and has translated you into the kingdom of his beloved son.

²⁶ and indeed we wanted an high priest of such a character, one that is holy, innocent, undefiled, one that is separated from sinful men, and exalted above the heavens; one who was under no necessity,

¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, who is the lamb without spot, and without blemish:

²² leaving an example for your exact imitation, he who never offended, and from whose lips no fallacy was ever utter'd,

⁵ and you know that he appear'd to abolish our sins; and that he was himself without sin. ⁶ whosoever adheres to him, sinneth not: whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, he does not know him. ⁷ dear children, let no man deceive you: only he that acts justly is just, as he is just. ⁸ he that lives in sin, imitates the devil; for the devil was a sinner from the beginning. for this purpose the son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

¹⁹ we know that we are the children of God, and the rest of the world are subject to the evil spirit.

⁹ the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, call'd the devil or satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were precipitated with him.

² and he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and satan, and bound him for a thousand years, ³ then cast him into the bottomless pit, there shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should seduce the nations no more, till the thousand years should he fulfilled: and after that, he was to be loosed for a short time.

⁷ When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, ⁸ and shall go out to seduce the nations, which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them to battle: they will be as numerous as the sand of the sea.

³⁹ Then advancing a little further, he fell prostrate in prayer, and said, "O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not mine, but thy will be done."

⁴⁶ rise, let us be gone, there he is, the traytor is just upon us.

⁵⁰ the baptism, which I am to undergo, how do I long till it be accomplished?

³⁴ Jesus said to them, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

¹⁸ no man can take it from me, but I voluntarily lay it down: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. this is the order I have received from my father.

⁹ as the father has loved me, and I have loved you: so do you persevere in your love to me.

¹ When Jesus had spoken these words, he pass'd with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entred with them. ² now Judas, who was to betray him, knew the place: for Jesus and his disciples had frequently assembled there. ³ Judas then having got a company of soldiers, and officers, by order of the chief priests and Pharisees, came thither with lanterns, torches, and with arms. ⁴ but Jesus who knew every thing that should happen to him, advanc'd, and said to them, who do you look for?

¹¹ then said Jesus to Peter, sheath thy sword: the cup which my father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

⁸ and his whole exterior showing nothing more than a meer man, he abased himself, and carried his submission so far as to die, even the death of the cross.

⁷ this was Jesus, who while he was in a mortal body, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong cries, and with tears, to him that was able to save him from that death, was heard so as to be delivered from his fear; ⁸ for tho' he was the son of God, yet he found by his own sufferings what it was to obey,

⁵ wherefore at his appearing in publick, he saith, "sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me: ⁶ in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure: ⁷ then said I, lo I come, as in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God." ⁸ after having said, "victims, oblations, holocausts, and sacrifice for sin, thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein," tho' they are all prescrib'd by the law; ⁹ he immediately adds, "lo, I come to do thy WILL, O God." he abolishes the first to establish the second:

² having Jesus in our view, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God. ³ for you should consider how he endured such opposition from sinners against himself, lest ye be tired out, and quite despond.