Hebrews 10

In a clock the wheels move cross one to another, but all make the clock strike: so Christ being at his Father's right hand, he will make the most cross providences tend to the salvation of his church. Branch 3. Christ being at God's right hand, we may be assured he has now finis…

For Christ to be made flesh, was more humility, than for the angels to be made worms. Christ's flesh is called a veil (Hebrews 10:20). Through the veil that is his flesh.

The balm-tree weeps out its precious balm to heal those that cut and mangle it; Christ shed his blood to heal those that crucified him. And that he should die freely; it is called the offering of the body of Jesus (Hebrews 10:10). And though his sufferings were so great that the…

It is as if the drop should go to limit the ocean, or the star to set the Sun its bounds. Use 1. It condemns the Papists who would make more things infinite than the Godhead, they hold that Christ's body is in many places at once, that it is in heaven and in the bread and wine i…

The promises are as a fountain sealed. While we are in the state of nature, we see nothing but the flaming sword; and as the Apostle says (Hebrews 10:27), there remains nothing but [illegible], a fearful looking for of fiery indignation. Second, while children of wrath, we are h…

Thus assurance gives sweet contentment in every condition. Effect 6. Assurance would bear up the heart in sufferings, it would make a Christian endure troubles with patience and cheerfulness (with patience) (Hebrews 10:36). You have need of patience.

God will be Almighty to damn the sinner. Now in what a condition is every unbeliever; God's power is engaged against him, and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Hebrews 10:31). Use 3. It reproves such as do not believe this power of God.

And it brings swift damnation. It is a drawing back [illegible] to perdition (Hebrews 10:38). God will make his sword drunk with the blood of apostates.

Aristotle, though a heathen, did not only acknowledge God, when he cried out, You Being of Beings, have mercy on me; But he thought he that did not confess a deity, was not worthy to live. They who will not believe a God, shall feel him (Hebrews 10:31): It is a fearful thing to…

We have covenanted in baptism to take the Lord for our God, renouncing all others; and renewed this covenant in the Lord's Supper, and shall we not keep our solemn vow and covenant? We cannot go away from God without the highest perjury (Hebrews 10:38): [illegible]. If any man d…

If God lay a man in prison, where shall he get bail or mainprise? God will take his full blow at the sinner in hell (Hebrews 10:31). It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

There is the value of Christ's blood, and the virtue: Christ's blood has value enough to redeem the whole world, but the virtue of it is applied only to such as believe; Christ's blood is meritorious for all, not efficacious. All are not saved, because some put away salvation fr…

1. They dishonor God by their idolatry in making graven images, and giving the same honor to them as is due to God, [illegible]: Images are teachers of lies (Habakkuk 2:18), they represent God in a bodily shape. 2. By their idolatry in the Mass; worshipping the Host, and offerin…

[illegible], How am I straitened till it be accomplished. Therefore to show Christ's willingness to die, his sufferings is called an offering (Hebrews 10:10). By the offering of the body of Jesus: his death was a free-will offering.

The Apostle puts these two together, belief and salvation. (Hebrews 10:39): We are of them that believe to the saving of the soul. 6. If you would hear the Word aright, hear it with meek spirits.

Aquinas and others of the schoolmen place the sin against the Holy Spirit in malice. The sinner does all he can to vex God, and despite the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29). Thus Julian, who threw up his dagger in the air, as if he would have been revenged upon God.

What Solomon says of the sluggard, is as true of the coward, he says, there is a lion in the way (Proverbs 22:13): he sees dangers before him, he would go on in the way to the kingdom of heaven, but there is a lion in the way. This is dismal (Hebrews 10:38): If any man draw back…

We live in the fall of the leaf; men fall from that goodness they seemed to have; some are turned to error, others to vice; some to drinking and dicing, others to whoring; the very mantle of their profession is fallen off: it is dreadful for men to fall off from hopeful beginnin…

In heaven there will be all joy, and what need of patience then? It requires no patience to wear a crown of gold, but while we live here in a valley of tears, there needs patient submission to God's will (Hebrews 10:36): You have need of patience. 1. The Lord sometimes lays heav…

Galatians 6:4. God sent forth his Son made of a Woman; he was his Son, and was made of a woman; according as he expresses it (Hebrews 10:5), A body have you prepared Me; as also (Romans 8:3). Philippians 2:5, 6, 7.

But now all those things are openly, and fully witnessed to in the testimonies before produced; as may be observed by suiting some of them to the several particulars here asserted. As 1. What was done in this matter, was from the will, purpose, and love of God the Father (Psalm…

It is true in the observation of positive institutions, we may have regard to rules and prescriptions of prudence, as to times, places, and seasons; that by no inadvertency or miscarriage of ours, or advantage taken by the adversaries of the truth, the edification of the Church…

And the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship, consisteth in its relation to God by Jesus Christ, as the merciful high-Priest over his house, with the glorious administration of the spirit therein. The order also of it lies in the due and regular observation of all that Christ…

"For this cause," says the Apostle, "many are weak, and sickly among you, and many sleep." From all which it appeares of what concernment it is to the glory of God, and the salvation of our own souls, to attend diligently to our duty in the strict and sincere observation of the…

Quest. 24. Wherein consists the general duty of the whole Church, and every member thereof in their proper station and condition? Answ. In performing, doing, and keeping inviolate all the commands and institutions of Jesus Christ, walking unblameably and fruitfully in the World,…

Without which, well seated, and confirmed in the hearts and minds of Church members, no duty of their relation can ever be performed in a due manner. Secondly, this love is to exert and put forth itself in tender care and watchfulness for the good of each other; which are to wor…

Secondly, Authoritatively, by his Spirit in the Apostles, and the doctrine of the Gospel preached by them (Acts 15:10, 11): Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the Disciples, which neither our Fathers nor we were able to bear, but we believe that thro…

Qu. 6. May not such an estate of faith and perfection in obedience be attained in this life, as wherein believers may be freed from all obligation to the observation of Gospel institutions? Answ. No! For the ordinances and institutions of the Gospel being inseparably annexed to…

Qu. 8. How many we sanctify the name of God in the use of Gospel institutions? Answ. 1. By a holy reverence of his sovereign authority appointing of them. 2. A holy regard to his special presence in them. 3. Faith in his promises annexed to them. 4. Delight in his will, wisdom,…

It would be infinite to reckon up all the false reasonings that souls in distress have. Sometimes from a passage of Scripture misunderstood and misapplied: some who are annoyed with blasphemous thoughts against God and Christ and his Spirit — thoughts which are their greatest af…

Therefore in Hebrews 6:9-10: 'We hope better things of you, for God is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love, to reward you.' And therefore he calls upon them likewise in Hebrews 10:31 to call to remembrance the former days to comfort them — how they held out when their h…

Now, without faith we shall never be able to glorify God under the cross. The just must live by faith in this estate, Hebrews 10:38; as, here they endure racking, burning, hewing asunder, etcetera and all by faith. Secondly, out of all these sufferings here endured by faith, not…

Where we see, what it is that will bring a man to esteem affliction, with the fear of God, better than the treasures and pleasures of an earthly kingdom: namely, as we set the bodily eye to behold the affliction; so we must lift up the eye of the mind of faith, to behold the rec…

At the earnest suit and intercession the Church made to God, Peter the Apostle was released out of his imprisonment, and brought to the house where they were praying (Acts 12). Seventhly, lastly, there is no society that has such privileges, as this spiritual house, which is con…

The other side, laid the evidence of their justification, only by faith in the free promise: for there are four things that makes remission of sins perpetual to a believer. First, the cause of remission, the sacrificed body of Christ on the cross, or accursed tree; (Hebrews 10:4…

⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩, may respect a Law, as was before intimated, either on the account of the Lawgiver, him that has power over it, or of those to whom it is given as a Law, and who are under the power of it. In the latter sense ⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩, is to transgress a La…

But commonly it respects a law, and is applied to them who are absolutely under the power of the law, or such in whose power the law is. The first sort are said to make void the law, when they transgress it, neglecting the authority whereby it is given (Mark 7:9; Hebrews 10:28).…

Yet was the presence of God there only in things made with hands, only instituted to represent his glory. But believers do draw nigh to God himself, to the throne of his grace, as the Apostle declares (Hebrews 10:19-22). It may therefore be granted that there is this intention i…

Now this in the confirmation of the Old Covenant was only the sacrifice of beasts, whose blood was sprinkled on all the people (Exodus 24:5, 6, 7, 8, 9). But the New Testament was solemnly confirmed by the sacrifice and blood of Christ himself (Zechariah 9:11; Hebrews 10:29; cha…

In brief, all the good things in spiritual redemption and salvation which they looked for by the Messiah are here called the good things to come. Of these things Christ was now come the High Priest; the Law having only the shadow, and not so much as the perfect image of them (He…

First, that they did not, in and of themselves, really expiate any one sin, small or great. It was impossible, says the Apostle, that they should do so (Hebrews 10:4), only they sanctified to the purifying of the flesh; which overthrows the foundation of this exposition. Secondl…

Christ himself was sanctified, consecrated, dedicated to God in his own blood. He sanctified himself (John 17:19), and that by the blood of the Covenant (Hebrews 10:29), even when he was consecrated or made perfect through sufferings (chap. 2:10). So was the Church and the whole…

And this was the manner of the service. After the High Priest had filled the Holy Place with a cloud of Incense, he returned to the Altar of Burnt-offerings without the Tabernacle, where the Sacrifice had been newly slain: And while the blood of the beast was fresh and as it wer…

(1) A denunciation of the sentence of the Law against Mankind; Dying you shall die, and cursed be every one that continues not in all things written in the Law to do them. (2) A refusal of all such ways of atonement, satisfaction, and reconciliation that might be offered from an…

And this the Lord Christ did in the behalf of the Church. For when it was said, sacrifice and burnt offerings and whole burnt-offerings for sin God would not have, or accept as sufficient to make the atonement that he required, so as that the Covenant might be established and ma…

And as this was the greatest effect of divine wisdom and grace, so it is the first cause, the root and spring of all spiritual blessings to us. This the whole Scripture bears testimony to (Hebrews 10:7; 1 John 3:16). This is the fundamental article of faith evangelical.

1. In the frequency of their offerings, they were to offer daily, which also includes the order of their offering, first for themselves, and then for the people: whereas he offered once only. 2. It is supposed they offered the sacrifices appointed by the law which were of brute…

And what is this indignation of it? God himself is in the Scripture said to be a consuming fire (Deuteronomy 4:24; chapter 9:3; Isaiah 33:14; Hebrews 10:29). What is intended thereby is declared in a word (Deuteronomy 4:24).

If they prove barren and unprofitable, they are rejected of God and cursed by him. Nor shall they ever have any other trial, nor shall ever any other experiment be made of them (Hebrews 10). Their season of the enjoyment of the Gospel is their day; when that is past the night co…

They think that they have faith, or do believe, and that they shall be saved, but in the issue they are disappointed, and ashamed of their hopes; and how fearful is it, when so it is! See (Hebrews 10:31; Psalm 119:116). Such are at last led forth with workers of iniquity, as (Ps…