Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; Faith; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
12. All these sayings put together, give as clear an account of the
state of the glorified saints as language could give--the works that
Jesus had done they were to do, and greater works than those which
he had done among them should they do, and that because he went to
the Father. He does not say that they should do these works in time;
but they should do greater works because he went to the Father. He
says, in the 24th verse: Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast
given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory. These
sayings, taken in connection, make it very plain, that the greater
works, which those that believed on his name, were to do, were to be
done in eternity, where he was going, and where they should behold his
glory. He had said, in another part of his prayer, that he desired of
his Father, that those who believed on him should be one in him, as
he, and the Father were one in each other: Neither pray I for these
(the apostles) alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through
their words; that they all may be one: that is, they who believe on him
through the apostles' words, as well as the apostles themselves: that
they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that
they also may be one in us.
13. What language can be plainer than this? The Saviour surely intended
to be understood by his disciples: and he so spake that they might
understand him; for he declares to his Father, in language not to be
easily mistaken, that he wanted his disciples, even all of them, to
be as himself and the Father: for as he and the Father were one so
they might be one with them. And what is said in the 22nd verse is
calculated to more firmly establish this belief, if it needs any thing
to establish it. He says, And the glory which thou gavest me, I have
given them, that they may be one, even as we are one. As much as to
say, that unless they have the glory which the Father had given him,
they could not be one with them: For he says he had given them the
glory that the Father had given him, that they might be one; or, in
other words, to make them one.
14. This fills up the measure of information on this subject, and shows
most clearly, that the Saviour wished his disciples to understand that
they were to be partakers with him in all things: not even his glory
excepted.
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