Abide in me, and I in you.— "Continue steadfast in your love and attachment to me, live in constant communion with me, let your hearts be stayed upon me with habitual and full confidence and faith, and I will abide in you; for this is the methodtoderivefrommeallneedful supplies, particularly the influences of my Spirit, ch. John 14:26 the comfortof my presence, John 14:23 the protection of my providence, John 14:27 and the direction of my word, John 15:7." As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, &c. no more can ye, &c. "Your continuing in this union with me; this faith and confidence upon me; this exercise of my divine presence, this habitual communion with me, is as necessary to the production of all the internal and external works of righteousness, as the continuing of the branches in the vine is to their fruitfulness. To make you sensible of this was what I proposed, when I told you that I am the true vine, and you the branches, John 15:5. I must therefore repeat it again, that union and communion with me, sincerity in the belief, steadfastness in the profession, and diligence in the practice of my religion, accompanied as they always are with my blessingand assistance, and the inspiration of my Spirit, are the only means of making a man fruitful in holiness. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me,— χωρις εμου,— separate from me,—(in allusion to the vine and its branches)—you can do nothing. If you apostatize from me, and are deprived of my influences, you can do nothing for your own sanctification and salvation."
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John 15:4-5
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.