...inheritance." (Psalm ii, 8.) Christ had regard to this promise, when he said, " Father, glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee, as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." This sort of entreaty...

...ever" lasting.'' " Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that " he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given " him. And this is life eternal; that they might know thee, " the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.''™ " And as many as were...

...inheritance.1" (Psalm ii, 8.) Christ had regard to this promise, when he said, " Father, glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee, as thou hast given him power ever all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." This sort of entreaty...

...ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.' And his own example seems to speak for it : ' Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come.' " But then, on the other hand : " It is a question, whether by ' our Father,' ' thy Father,' and '...

...mother." — Matt. xii. 49, 50. In John xvii. there is a most peculiar likeness of our Lord : " Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father ! the hour is come." — What rays of grace must have shot forth their beams in the countenance of the God-Man at this moment...

...26.) And in prayer to his heavenly Father, he speaks to the same effect, thus: " Father, the hour is come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." (John xvii. 1, 2.)...

...power against him. The language in which his prayer now commences is most appropriate and striking. He lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come. But what hour is this ? The manner in which it is mentioned leads us to renard it as one of special...

...abound ; so that no one can fully enter into its contents. First of all, when the Evangelist says, These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, he gives an honour to the using of external gestures in prayer : whereby he stops the mouths of fanatical...

...abound ; so that no one can fully enter into its contents. First of all, when the Evangelist says, These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, he gives an honour to the using of external gestures in prayer: whereby he stops the mouths of fanatical...

...power against him. The language in which his prayer now commences is most appropriate and striking. He lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come. But what hour is this ? The manner in which it is mentioned leads us to regard it as one of special...