...sufficient, of itself, completely to refute this objection. Just before his crucifixion, he said, ' I pray, not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me.' Why did he not pray for the world ? We answer : because his first petition, was for his disciples,...

...recorded in St. John, he speaks of his people as given to him by the Father, I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine* How high and awfully grand are the destinies of a holy soul! Known to the ancient...

...man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father. Q. 133. But did not Christ himself declare, " I pray not for the world ; but for them which thou hast given me ? " A. Yes ; but although, on one particular occasion, Christ prayed not for the world, but for his...

...connection here shews him to mean God's peculiar people ; hence our Lord says, (John xvii, 9.) " I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine." Augustine says, "Christian men in their prayers mutually recommend each other...

...connection here shews him to mean God's peculiar people; hence our Lord says, (John xvii, 9.) " I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine." Augustine says, " Christian men in their prayers mutually recommend each other...

...that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. In the 9th Verse, he says, / pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me ; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. In these...

...disciples who had been given to him were the possession of his Father, adds towards the close, ' I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine.' From whence, therefore, does it proceed, that the world in general does not belong...

...will not obtain that world, and therefore will not be saved. John xvii. 9 ; " I pray for them : I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine." But are any to be saved, for whom our Lord does not make intercession? Heb. xii....

...unto the men, which thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them me. I pray not for the world, but for them, which thou hast given me. Those, who are given to Christ are his, not by gift only; but they will be his by faith in him, and...

...flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." " I pray for them : I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me." " And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." " Neither...