Andrew Gray (Works, p. 45):
There is this that we would say of precious Christ, which may engage our souls unto him, that for all the wrongs believers do to Christ, yet hath he never an evil word of them to his Father, but commends them: which is clear from that of John 17:6, where Christ doth commend the disciples to the Father for the grace of obedience, They have kept thy word: and for the grace of faith, verse 8, They have believed that thou didst send me. And yet were not the disciples most defective in obedience both in this, that they did not take up their cross and follow Christ? and also in that they did not adhere to him in the day that he was brought to Caiaphas’ hall? And were they not most defective in the grace of faith? As is clear from Matth, 17:17, and likewise from John 14:1. He is pressing them to believe in him, and yet he doth commend them to the Father as most perfect in these things.
