OF

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

ILLUSTRATED IN

A SERIES OF EXPOSITIONS.

BY JOHN BROWN, D. D.,

PROFESSOR OF EXEGETICAL THEOLOGY TO THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
AND SENIOR MINISTER OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION,
BROUGHTON PLACE, EDINBURGH.

ΔΕΙ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΥΕΙΝ ΤΩΝ ΛΟΓΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΙΗΣΟΥ.—ΠΑΥΛΟΣ.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND SONS.

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS AND COMPANY.
GLASGOW: DAVID ROBERTSON.

101

MDCCCL.

CONTENTS.

EXPOSITION XXV.

THE VALEDICTORY DISCOURSE.

JOHN XIV., XV., XVI.

INTRODUCTION, p. 1.-PART I. FAITH IN GOD AND IN CHRIST, THE ANTIDOTE

TO HEART-TROUBLE-John xiv. 1:-" Let not your heart be troubled; ye

believe in God, believe also in me," p. 5. § 1. The causes of the disciples'

trouble of heart, p. 5. § 2. The means of obtaining relief from this heart-

trouble-faith in God-faith in Christ, p. 9. (1.) "What it is to believe in

God and in Christ," p. 11. (2.) How faith in God and in Christ was fitted

to relieve the heart-trouble of the disciples, p. 13. (3.) How faith in God

and in Christ is fitted to relieve the heart-trouble of Christians, in every

country and age, p. 16.

PART II. WHITHER CHRIST WAS GOING, AND WITH WHAT PURPOSE-John xiv.

2,3:-"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would

have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare

a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where

I am, there ye may be also," p. 22. § 1. The results of Christ's going away

to himself, p. 24. § 2. The results of Christ's going away to his disciples, p.

28.

PART III. CHRIST THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE—John xiv. 4-6 :—“ And

whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord,

we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus

saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh

unto the Father, but by me,” p. 40. § 1. Our Lord's saying which was mis-

apprehended by the disciples, p. 43. § 2. The disciples' misapprehension of

our Lord's saying, p. 45. § 3. Our Lord's correction of the disciples' misap-

prehension, p. 47. (1.) He is the way, p. 47. (2.) He is the truth, p. 49.

(3.) He is the life, p. 50. (4.) He is the only way to the Father, p. 51.

PART IV. OUR KNOWLEDGE of God is DEPENDENT ON, AND CORRESPONDING

TO, OUR KNOWledge of CHRIST-John xiv. 7-11:-" If ye had known me,

ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him,