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An Exposition of Our Lord's Intercessory Prayer
An Exposition of Our Lord's Intercessory Prayer Author:John Brown General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: William Oliphant Subjects: Bible Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books... more ».com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II. THE PRAYER. Our Lord's prayer naturally resolves itself into three divisions: A prayer for himself (vers. 1-5); a prayer for his apostles (vers. 6-19) ; and a prayer for his church, or peculiar people, in all countries and in all ages (vers. 20-24). Each of these prayers has its appropriate petitions and corresponding pleas. To the first of these prayers, his prayer for himself, let us now turn our thoughts. § 1. His prayer for himself. " These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven. and said, 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. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, 0 Father, glorify . thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." -- John xvii. 1-6. Our Lord's petition and our Lord's pleas, in the verses we have read, are the two topics to which, in succession, our attention must be directed. Our Lord's Petition may be considered either as simple or as complex. In the first case, it is contained in the words, " Glorify thy Son, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was;" and all the other words are to be considered as expressive of plea in support of this simple petition. In the second case, the petition is containe...« less