Hebrews 1

1. His person: his person is amiable, he is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, all made up of love and beauty. He is the image of his Father (Hebrews 1:3). The express image of his person.

When he was on earth he lay in the manger, now he sits in the throne; then he was hated and scorned of men, now he is adored of angels; then his name was reproached, now God has given him a name above every name (Philippians 2:9). Then he came in the form of a servant, and as a…

2. He has his Insignia Regalia, his ensigns of royalty, Corona est insigne Regiae potestatis; His crown (Revelation 6:2), his sword (Psalm 45:3), Gird your sword upon your thigh. His scepter (Hebrews 1:8), A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. 3. His escutch…

3. The angels are confined spirits, they cannot be in duobus locis simul, they are confined to a place: but God is an immense Spirit, and cannot be confined, being in all places at once. 4. The angels, though they are spirits, yet they are but ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14).…

The beasts of the field shall honor me. 2. Creatures above us glorify God: the angels are ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14). They are still waiting on God's throne, and bring some revenues of glory into the exchequer of heaven: then surely man should be much more studious of Go…

The adopted are God's treasure (Exodus 19:5), his jewels (Malachi 3:17), his firstborn (Hebrews 12:23). They have angels for their life-guard (Hebrews 1:14). They are of the blood-royal of heaven (1 John 3:9).

Men may act unjustly, because they are bribed or forced: God will not be bribed, because of his justice, he cannot be forced because of his power. He does justice out of love to justice, (Hebrews 1:8) You love righteousness. 4. Justice is the perfection of the divine nature.

Which is to come — His kingdom has no end. His crown has no successors (Hebrews 1:8): Your Throne, O God, is forever and ever. The doubling of the word ratifies the certainty of it, as the doubling of Pharaoh's dreams did.

Others may have more of the venison, but God's children have more of the blessing: Thus they are heirs to the things of this life. 2. They are heirs to the other world: heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14), [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). They go…

2. He is coeternal with God the Father (Proverbs 8:23). I was from the beginning; for else there was a time when God was without a Son, and so he should be no Father: in fact, else there was a time when God was without his glory, for Christ is the brightness of his Father's glor…

You, his angels that do his commandments. If God send an angel to the Virgin Mary, he goes on God's errand; if he gives his angels a charge to minister for the saints they obey (Hebrews 1:14). It cannot stand with angelical obedience to leave the least iota of God's will unfulfi…

The text answers; The worlds. The word signifies, in the original, ages: and so it is also taken, Hebrews 1:2. God made the worlds or ages by Christ.

Indeed all true believers before Christ were justified, and sanctified, and in soul received to glory before us; yet, perfected in soul and body both, they must not be before us: but we must all be perfected together. Now, his will herein he brings thus to pass; All must be perf…

And first that the father is Creator, it was never doubted: as for the second person the Son, that he is Creator, it is evident: All things are made by it, that is, by the Son, who is the substantial word of the father, and without it was made nothing that was made (John 1:3). A…

Jesus Christ is a rich heir (John 16:15). He is Lord of all (Galatians 4:1; Hebrews 1:2), and the saints are co-heirs, they go sharers with Christ. 9. God calls them the luminaries of the world: they give light by their precepts and example (Philippians 2:15).

Indeed they say that our sufferings in themselves considered do not purge and satisfy, but as they are made meritorious by the sufferings of Christ. But to this I oppose one text of Scripture: Hebrews 1:3, where it is said that Christ has purged our sins by himself — where the l…

And he says further that he counted all things — even after his conversion — loss to him that he might be found in Christ, not having his own righteousness which is of the law (Philippians 3:8). Again, Hebrews 1:3: Christ washed away our sins by himself — which last words exclud…

As namely that of (Isaiah 9:6): To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, of whose Kingdom and Government there shall be…

A second place is that of (Philippians 2:6), Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery (he did God no wrong) to be equal with God, he made himself of no reputation; and took on him the form of a servant, etc. Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him a na…

4. They are called His seed, in respect of the portion which they get from Him; the Apostle says, that parents provide for their children; it is indeed eminently so here, believers come under His care, oversight, and tutelage; and as a man provides for his household, his childre…

For he had that prayer (John 17:20, 24), and he continues to have that same sympathy; His way on earth was always sinless, but now is glorious and majestic, suited to his glorified state; He continues to intercede according as he intended; and his actual willingness is a main pa…

Isaiah 33:17. Your eyes shall see the King in his beauty. Hebrews 1:3. Christ is the brightness of his Father's glory. The light of the Sun in the air is the accidental reflection of the Sun's beams; Christ is the substantial reflection of the Father's light and glory; for he is…

4. But as every fullness is not all fullness, so every fullness is not the fullness of the Godhead; therefore, to me it's as much as the elect are drawn to Christ as the choicest, the rarest among all. 2. So among all choice things and all relations, he is the first and most emi…

And yet how greatly humbled? even to the death, his offices of king, priest, and prophet being debased with him. How great a name had he? as Hebrews 1:4. Which notwithstanding was dishonored more than ever any man's.

So kings whom they were most pleased with they did set at their right hands, as Solomon did his mother (1 Kings 2:19) and so Christ the church his queen (Psalm 45:9), and it was a favor which God never afterward vouchsafed to any. Hebrews 1: 'To which of all the angels did he sa…

So (John 5:23): that they might honor the Son, as they honor the Father, therefore all judgment is committed to him. Now then, if he who has so much power, will join the force of entreaty with a Father that so loves him; if he who is the Word of his Father, that commands, create…

And these establish Christ's Throne: So it followes, verse 6. Your Throne, O God, is for ever and ever: And you know who applies this to Christ, Hebrews 1:8 Feare not then, when as meekness supports his majesty, and grace his throne; and when as he holds his place by showing the…

There are two kinds of Persons that are given to Christ, and appointed and devoted of God to be his Servants, to be employed with Christ, and under him, in his great Work of the Salvation of the Souls of Men; and they are Angels and Ministers. The Angels are all of them, even th…

God's people in a time of want can make a feast to themselves out of the promises, and when seemingly starved in the creature, fetch not only peace and grace and righteousness, but food and clothing out of the covenant. 3. Rather I think it is taken for his providential word, or…

2. Why it is so. First, That it is so, is evident by the Scripture, which everywhere shows us, that Angels are the first instruments of his providence, which he makes use of in guarding his faithful servants (Hebrews 1:14). The Apostle says, Are they not all [illegible], ministe…

Therefore this power of disposing kingdoms belongs to God. 2. That the Son of God is the right heir of the world, (Hebrews 1:2) Whom he has appointed heir of all things. To whom the nations are given, (Psalm 2:8) Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance, a…

Though God has many sons by creation and adoption, yet Christ is his Son in a peculiar and proper way; by eternal generation, and communication of the same essence, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 that Son, that beloved Son, so a Son as none else is the Son of God, properly so called.…

These offices are often alluded to in Scripture (Revelation 1:5). The faithful witness, the first begotten from the dead, the prince of the kings of the earth. So (Hebrews 1:2-3). God has spoken to us by his Son, he having by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand o…

So 1 Peter 3:22: "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God, angels and authorities, and powers being made subject to him." Christ not only as God, but as Mediator has all of them subject to him (Hebrews 1:6): "and to the son he says, Let all the angels of God wor…

2. Other addresses will not become faith and love. 1. Faith, for whoever comes to God must fix this principle in his mind, that God is, (Hebrews 1:6). We do not worship God aright if we do not worship him as believers, and if we worship him as believers, we will worship him with…

He fell into this difference between the law and the Gospel: namely, that the law added to the promises, did differ from the Gospel, not only in respect of time, but also of the author and the principal cause thereof. For the law was delivered by the Angels (Hebrews 1): but the…

Here then our merits, and satisfactions, and all inward justice, is excluded from the justification of a sinner. To this end Paul says, that we are justified freely by the redemption that is in Christ (Romans 3:24); that we are made the justice of God in him (and not in us) (2 C…

Againe, he that is Gods child has the angels of God to tend on him, and to minister to him for his good and salvation. Heb 1:14. The first argument whereby the adoption of God's children is set forth, is concerning the persons to whom it belongs, in these words, All you are the…

The foundation of this knowledge is, that God is to be known in Christ, for in him God has manifested his infinite wisdom, justice, mercy. Therefore is he called the [reconstructed: engraven] image of the person of the Father (Hebrews 1:2), and Paul says that we have the knowled…

For whatever they do, shall prosper (Psalm 1:3). And peace with the creatures; as first with the good Angels (Colossians 1:20), who are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister, for their sakes that shall be heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14), pitching their tents about them (…

The Prophet therefore now extols and sets forth that assured confidence which the only Son of God revealing his Father, has brought to us at his coming. Besides, as in this behalf we have a much greater prerogative than the ancient people had, in regard that the reconciliation m…

For having showed that men's consciences always waver, till the Lord have secured them; it teaches us to hold this principle, that it is God, who speaks by his Prophets: for otherwise our consciences would remain in doubtings and perplexities still. There is also great weight in…

The Angels also may be put in the number of these watchmen, for we know that is their office (Psalm 91:11). But in regard they watch willingly and cheerfully for the salvation of the Church (Hebrews 1:14), and have no need of being quickened up by exhortations, the Prophet direc…

For the Lord uses their services; and manifests his presence to us by their means. The Angels can do nothing of themselves, neither do they yield us any succor further forth than as the Lord sends them to be the ministers of our salvation (Hebrews 1:14). Let us not stay our thou…

For had it not been a thing commonly known, that the Messiah should be the son of God, the Prophet had inaptly and to little or no purpose mentioned the name of Son barely and simply. This title therefore depends upon the prophecy before going: from where the Apostle concludes,…

Of similar import is the declaration of Christ, “he that despises you despises me; and he that despises me despises him that sent me,” (Luke 10:16.) Although the preaching of the gospel is not brought to us from heaven by angels, yet, since God attested by so many miracles that…

So the apostle argues. Unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? (Hebrews 1:5.) Angels and kings, I admit, are sometimes dignified with this title in Scripture; but they are denominated in common the sons of God, on account of…

Having created men, he does not cease to care for them: but, as "he breathed into their nostrils the breath of life," (Genesis 2:7), so he constantly preserves the life which he has bestowed. In like manner, the Apostle says, that he "upholds all things by his powerful word," (H…

When he says that Lazarus was carried, it is a figure of speech by which a part is taken for the whole; for the soul being the nobler part of man, properly takes the name of the whole man. “A bon droict on dit simplement, L’homme, encore que cela ne convient qu’a l’ame;” — “we p…

He is the Sun of righteousness, whose arrival brought the full light of day. And this is the reason why the Apostle says (Hebrews 1:1) that God, who at sundry times and in various ways spoke formerly by the Prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his beloved Son.