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my commandments ; and I willask the Father,and He will
give you another Comforter."1 After which alsoHe adds
this:"If any one lovethme, he shallkeep my word :and my
Father willloveHim ; and we willcome unto him, and will
make our abode with him."2 Moreover, also,He added this
too: " But the Advocate,that Holy Spiritwhom the Father
willsend,He willteach you, and bring allthings to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."* He
utters,further,that passage when He shows Himself to be
the Son, and reasonablysubjoins,and says,"If ye loved
me, ye would rejoicebecauseI go unto the Father : for the
Father is greaterthan I."4 But what [shallwe say]when
He alsocontinuesin thesewords : " I am the true vine,and
my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that
beareth not fruitHe taketh away ; and everybranch that
beareth fruit He purgeth, that it may bring forth more
fruit?"5 StillHe persists,and adds : " As the Father hath
loved me, so alsohave I loved you : remain in my love. If
ye have kept my commandments, ye shallremain in my love;
even as I have kept the Father'scommandments, and remain
in His love."6 Further,He saysin addition: " But I have
calledyou friends; for allthingswhich I have heard of my
Father I have made known unto you."7 Moreover, He adds
to allthis: " But allthesethingswillthey do unto you for
my name's sake,becausethey know not Him that sentme."8
These thingsthen,afterthe former,evidentlyattestingHim
to be not the Father but the Son, theLord would never have
added, if He had had it in mind, eitherthat He was the
Father, or wished Himself to be understood as the Father,
except that He might declarethis,that every man ought
henceforth to consider,in seeing the image of God the
Father through the Son,thatitwas as if he saw the Father ;
since every one believingon the Son may be exercisedin
the contemplationof the likeness,so that,being accustomed
to seeing the divinityin likeness,he may go forward,and
\ John xiv.15,16. 2Johnxiv.23. *Johnxiv.26.
* Johnxiv.28. 5 Johnxv.1. 6Johnxv.9,10.
7Johnxv.15. 8Johnxv.21.
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