...delightful acquiescence in the petition to the Father — "/ pray not that thov, shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the eml." Though it seemed to me infinitely better to die to go to Christ, yet I felt an entire willingness...

...for his disciples will extend its influence to you, my son. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou ' shouldst keep them from the evil.' — John xvii. 5. But to return once more to that from which I set out — what things are necessary...

...danger. This, however, is not God's way. / pray not, said the Saviour, that Ihou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil, John xvii. 15. It is proper, therefore, to inform them, that through much tribulation they must enter...

...glorified. The Saviour, when interceding for the disciples, said, " I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil ;"* and when disengaged from business, or when any little in. terval occurs in it, we may again retire...

...prayer of our Saviour poured out for them, John xvii. 16, I pray not that tliou shouldst take them out of the world; but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil. They have the prince of the power of the air, and all his armies, all the forces he can make, against...

...the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evilr." Then he adds, what insures to us the completion of his desires, " Father, I will that they...

...kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition. — I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them...from the evil. — Sanctify them through thy truth. — For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither...

...it. "I pray not," said the departing Saviour in his last prayer — " that thoti shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." To walk through and not inhale its pestilential atmosphere — to scatter around him life and healing...

...pray over, and plead that sweet prayer of our Lord : — " I pray not that thoa shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." Remember me in your prayers, that I may be duly thankful, and be helped to walk humbly with the Lord,...

...this discourse, especially as it contains these passages, " I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." " They are not of the world. As thou bast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them." The...