Father, I will He asks as one having a right to be heard; and prays, not as a servant, but as a Son; that they also whom thou hast given me Not only my apostles and first disciples, but all my believing, loving, and obedient people; may be with me where I am Namely, in that heavenly world to which I am now removing. As if he had said, Since no improvements, either in holiness or comfort, can completely answer the purposes of my love and the promises of my grace to them; therefore I request felicity for them in another and more perfect state of things; that they may behold May contemplate with everlasting and delightful admiration; my glory, which thou hast By thy sure appointment; given me And art just ready to bestow upon me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world And didst then decree for me that mediatorial kingdom with which thou art now about to invest me. Observe, reader, the happiness of heaven chiefly consists in beholding the glory of the Father and of the Son, Matthew 5:8; 1 John 3:2.
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John 17:24
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.