SERMONS UPON JOHN 17 SERMON I These words spake Jesus, and lift up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.—JOHN 17:1. I SHALL, in the following exercises, open to you Christ’s solemn prayer recorded in this chapter—a subject worthy of our reverence and serious meditations. The Holy Ghost seemeth to put a mark of respect upon this prayer above other prayers which Christ conceived in the days of his flesh. Elsewhere the scripture