the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
Christ bids you keep His commandments as the ground of comfort; we must not expect comfort outside the way of duty. Show your love not by weak passions and tears, but by conscientious obedience to His commands, this is better than sacrifice. The promises are limited: Christ will be your advocate only if you are ruled and counseled by Him.
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Commenting on John 14:15-17
Men of the world walk by sight and not by faith; what they cannot perceive by their senses makes no impression on them. They judge His influence delusive and reject Him because they have no approbation of Him in their hearts, no love for Him. But the Spirit would teach you all truth and keep you from error in the Gospel you communicate to others.
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whom the world cannot receive, &c.--(See Co1 2:14). he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you--Though the proper fulness of both these was yet future, our Lord, by using both the present and the future, seems plainly to say that they already had the germ of this great blessing.