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    Us plainly , who they are and what is their character ' whom the Father * had given him , we shall rhen see the grounds and reasons why they are thus distinguished , and this , methinks , will furnish us with undeniable and

    authentic principles on which to proceed ia the interptetation of this passage . Now let us turn to the xviith chapter of this gospel ; where , aipong the many other remarkable passages contained in that admirable intercession which our Lord

    made unto his Father for his followers , are these words , v . 6 , ** I have manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world : thine they were , and thou gavest them me , and they have kept thy word . " And v . 9 " I pray for them ; I 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 , " and v . 14 , . " I hare given them thy word , and the world hath hated , them ,

    because they are not of the world , even as I am not of the world , " and , again , v . 16 u They are not of the world , even as I am not of the world /* Here we see , _ that

    the persons said to be given to him of the Father , are by our Lord distinctly and expressly characterized , as belonging to God , and , as having been his before they were given by him to Christ . — Thine they were and thou gavest them me . " Nay , he adds , that the Fathfer had

    given him all that were his own , v . 10 : " All -liii-ne are thine , and thine are mine , and I fcm g ^ ori - fod in th £ m . *» * Tfce £ kre'abb fu rther characterized a * ttehig

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    not of the world even as he was not of x the world , i . e . tfaey " were not of such dispositions , temper , and conduct as the mere men of tthis world afe , but spiritually-minded and devote # to the will of God as he was .

    Now in what tenfce ars som « persons here * distinguished a * being God ' s , or belonging to him ? Undoubtedly , God is the creator , proprietor , and sovereign Lord of all men . without

    exception ; and therefore , w « may conclude that God ' s property as Creator and Lord of all men is hot the thing h « re meant , because this . would etdmit of no distinguishing of one from another . Besides our Lord expressly establishes another sort of

    distinction , viz , between those who are of God , and those who are of the world ; $ nd of th 6 se who , he says , were God ' s , and given to himself by God , he repeats it

    twice , they are not of the world , Here he plainly distinguishes mankind into two parties ; one the party df * God , the other the party of the world . But surely it

    cannot be at all difficult to any one , ever so little versed in religibus subjects , or the language of the scripture ! , to determine what are the characters of these two parties ' . Certainly the persons who ar <* < 3 © d ' s , or belong to Ood , or are

    of his party > are those who truly reverence artd love God , and silbjefct theiteelves to bis authority ; who sincerely inquire into im th

    will , ; and , wh ^ n ey > know it , conscientiously ^ eep it ; or if f through thetjr « jwn ^ ignorance or infirmity , or ] % W 0 surprise df tfeiJdjptations th ^ V be dra wn into sinfiil pi ^ ctM ^ # pft , Mrhe ^ ever thfe " vMl of God m wMf p * cipo 9 © a to the *

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    Observations an John vi ; 37 , by the late Wsv . W . Turner . 0 S"

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/39/