Sunday, February 22, 2009

Embrace Christ who is offered unto us and truly love him ;

From :
The Geneva Bible
New Testament ,
The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To John Chapter 14

1 He comforteth his disciples,
2, 7 declaring his divinity
and the fruit of his death,

16 promising the comforter,
17 even the holy Spirit,
26 whose office he setteth out.

27 He promiseth his peace.

1 Let (1) not your heart be troubled; ye believe
in God, (*) believe also in me.

(1) He believeth in God that believeth in Christ,
and there is no other way to confirm our minds
in greatest distresses.

(*) For in so believing no troubles
shall overcome them.

2 In my Father's house are (*) many dwelling
places; if it were not so, (a) I would have
told you; I go to (b) prepare a place for you.

(*) So that there is not only place for him,
but for all his.

(a) That is, if it were not so as I tell you, to wit,
unless there were place enough not only for me,
but for you also, in my father's house, I would
not thus deceive you with a vain hope,
but I would have told you so plainly.

(b) All the speech is by way of an allegory,
whereby the Lord comforteth his own, declaring
unto them his departure into heaven, which is,
not to reign there alone, but to go before,
and prepare a place for them.

3 (2) And if I go to prepare a place for you,
I will (c) (*) come again, and receive you
unto myself, that where I am, there may
ye be also.

(2) Christ went not away from us, to the end
to forsake us, but rather that he might at length
take us up with him into heaven.

(c) These words are to be referred to the whole
Church, and therefore the Angels said
to the disciples when they were astonished,
What stand you gazing up into heaven?
This Jesus shall so come as you saw him go up,
Acts 1:11 .
And in all places of the Scripture, the full
comfort of the Church is referred to that day
when God shall be all in all, and is therefore
called the day of redemption.

(*) At the latter days, Acts 1:11 .

4 (3) And whither I go, ye know, and the way
ye know.

(3) Christ only is the way to true and everlasting
life, for he it is in whom the Father hath revealed
himself.

5 Thomas said unto him, Lord, we (*) know not
whither thou goest, how can we then know
the way?

(*) He was not altogether ignorant, but his
knowledge was weak and imperfect.

6 Jesus said unto him, I am (d) the (*) Way,
and the Truth, and the Life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

(d) This saying sheweth unto us both the nature,
the will, and office of Christ.

(*) Therefore we must begin in him, continue in him,
and end in him.

7 (e) If ye had known me, ye should have known
my Father also; and from henceforth ye know
him, and have seen him.

(e) It is plain by this place, that to know God,
and to see God, is all one; Now whereas he said
before, that no man saw God at any time,
that is to be understood thus, without Christ;
or were it not through Christ, no man could
ever see, nor saw God at any time; for as
Chrysostom saith, the Son is a very short
and easy setting forth of the father's nature
unto us.

8 Philip said unto him, Lord, shew us thy Father,
and it sufficeth us.

9 Jesus said unto him, I have been so long time
with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip?
He that hath seen me, hath seen my Father;
how then sayest thou, Shew us thy Father?

10 (4) Believest thou not, that I am in the Father,
and (*) the Father is in me?
The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of
() myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he
() doeth the works.

(4) The majesty of God sheweth itself most
evidently, both in Christ's doctrine and deeds.

(*) For the very fullness of the divinity remaineth
in Christ.

() In that which he is man.

() Who declareth his majesty and virtue by his
doctrine and miracles.

11 Believe me, that I am in the Father,
and the Father is in me; at the least, believe
me for the very works' sake.

12 (5) Verily, verily I say unto you, he that
believeth in me, the works that I do,
(*) he shall do also, and (f) greater than these
shall he do; for I go unto my Father.

(5) The approving of the virtue of Christ is not
included within his own person, but it is spread
through the body of his whole Church.

(*) This is referred to the whole body of the Church
in whom this virtue of Christ doeth shine
and remain forever.

(f) That is, not I only do them, but I can also give
other men power to do greater.

13 (*) And whatsoever ye ask in my Name, that
will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

(*) John 16:23; Matthew 7:7; Mark 11:24;
James 1:5 .

14 If ye shall ask anything in my Name,
I will do it.

15 (6) If ye love me, keep my commandments,

(6) He loveth Christ aright, which obeyeth his
commandments; and because the same is
accompanied with an infinite sort of miseries,
although he be absent in body, yet doeth
he comfort his with the present virtue
of the holy Ghost, whom the world despiseth,
because it knoweth him not.

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give
you another (*) Comforter, that he may abide
with you forever,

(*) I have comforted you whiles
I was with you, but henceforth the holy Ghost
shall comfort you, and preserve you.

17 Even the (g) Spirit of (*) truth, whom the
(h) world cannot receive, because it seeth him not,
neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

(g) The holy Ghost is called the Spirit of truth,
of the effect which he worketh, because he inspireth
the truth into us, whereas otherwise he hath truth
in himself.

(*) So called because he worketh in us the truth.

(h) Worldly men.

18 I will not leave you fatherless; but I will
(*) come to you.

(*) Which thing he doeth by the virtue of his Spirit.

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

20 At that day shall ye know that I am
(i) in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

(i) The Son is in the Father after such sort, that he
is of one selfsame substance with the Father, but
he is in his disciples in a certain respect as an aider
and helper of them.

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them,
is he that loveth me, and he that loveth me,
(*) shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him,
and will (k) shew my own self to him.

(*) He shall sensibly feel that the grace of God
abideth in him.

(k) I will shew myself to him, and be known of him,
as if he saw me with his eyes; but this shewing
of himself is not bodily, but spiritually, yet so plain
as none can be more.

22 (7) Judas said unto him,
(not (*) Iscariot) Lord, what is the cause that
thou wilt shew thyself unto us, and not
unto the world?

(7) We must not ask why the Gospel is revealed
to some rather than to others, but we must rather
take heed, that we embrace Christ who is offered
unto us, and that we truly love him, that is to say,
that we give ourselves wholly to his obedience.

(*) But the brother of James.

23 Jesus answered, and said unto him,
If any man love me, he will
(*) keep my word, and my Father will love him,
and we will come unto him, and will dwell with him.

(*) Whereby he advertiseth them not to have
respect to the world, lest they should be drawn back
by evil example.

24 He that loveth me not, keepeth not my words,
and the word which ye hear, is not (*) mine,
but the Father's which sent me.

(*) That is, not his alone; for he had nothing
separate from his Father.

25 (8) These things have I spoken unto you,
being present with you.

(8) It is the office of the holy Ghost to imprint
in the midst of the elect in their times and seasons,
that which Christ once spake.

26 (*) But the Comforter, which is the holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my Name,
he shall teach you all things, and bring all things
to your remembrance, which I have told you.

(*) John 15:26 .

27 (9) (*) Peace I leave with you; my peace I give
unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, nor fear.

(9) All true felicity cometh to us by Christ alone.

(*) All comfort and prosperity.

28 (10) Ye have heard how I said unto you,
I go away, and will come unto you.
If ye loved me, ye would verily rejoice, because
I said, I go unto the Father, for my Father
(l) is (*) greater than I.

(10) So far is it, that we should be sorry for the
departing of Christ, from us according to the flesh,
that we should rather rejoice for it, seeing that all
the blessing of the members dependeth upon the
glorifying of the head.

(l) This is spoken in that, that he is Mediator,
for so the Father is greater than he, in as much
as the person to whom request is made,
is greater than he that maketh the request.

(*) In that, that Christ is become man to be the
Mediator between God and us.

29 And now have I spoken unto you, before it come,
that when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

30 (11) Hereafter will I not speak many things
unto you, for the (*) prince of this world cometh,
and hath (m) () nought in me.

(11) Christ goeth to death not unwillingly,
but willingly, not as yielding to the devil,
but obeying his Father's decree.

(*) Satan executeth his rage and tyranny
by the permission of God.

(m) As who would say, Satan will by and by
set upon me with all the might he can,
but he hath no power over me,
neither shall he find any such thing in me
as he thinketh he shall.

() Satan shall assail me with all his force,
but he shall not find that in me which he
looketh for; for I am that innocent lamb
without spot.

31 But it is that the world may know
that I love my Father, and as the Father hath
commanded me, so I do.
Arise, let us go hence.

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