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 the preſent ſtate, health and dregreedegree [sic] of faith, So, then Chriſt prayed for the preſervation of every grace when he played for the preſervation of faith That text alſo is of be ſame tendency, where he faith Keep through thine own name thoſe whom then halt given me." Keep them in thy fear in the faith in he true religion, in the way of life. by thy grace. by thy power, by thy wiſdom &c. This muſt be much the meaning of this place; and he that excludes this ſenſe will make but poor work of another expoſition.

4thly He alſo, in his interceſſion prayeth that our perſons be preſerved and brought ſafe unto his heavenly kingdom. And this he doth,

1ſt. By pleading intereſt in them.

2dly By pleading that he had given by promiſe, glory to them.

3dly. By pleading his own reſolution to have it ſo.

4thly, By pleading the reaſon, why it muſt be ſo.

1ſt, He prays that their perſons may come to glory, for that they are his, and that by the beſt of titles: "Thine they were, and thou gaveſt them me." Father, I will have them, Father, I will have them for they are mine: What is mine my wife, or my child, or my jewel, or my joy, ſure I may have it with me. Thus therefore he pleads, or cries in his interceſſion,