John — Chapter 17
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Verse 3
3. Life euerlasting.) True knowledge of God. Both the life of glory in Heauen, and of grace here in the Church, consisteth in the knowledge of God: that, in perfect vision: this, in faith working by charity; for, knowledge of God without keeping his commandements, is not true knowledge, that is to say, it is an vnprofitable knowledge. 1. Io. 2.
Verse 17
(a) The praife of Gods workes , which are firme and permanent in the order, wherin he ferrhem. go, Thy truth in generation and generation: thou haft founded the. earth, and iris permanent,
Verse 20
20. But for them.) The Canon of the Masse. He expresseth (and it is a great comfort) that he praieth not only for the Apostles, but for the whole Church after them, that is, for al beleeuers. And al this profound and diuine praier is resembled in the holy Canon of the Masse before the consecration, as here it was made before his visible Sacrifice on the Crosse.