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…

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…

Answer: Once only and no more. This must be held as a principle of divinity: With once offering has he consecrated forever, them that are sanctified (Hebrews 10:14); and again, Christ was once offered to take away the sins of many (Hebrews 9:28). And it serves to overthrow the a…

2. A righteous man lives more spiritually as he lives a life above others; whereas they live no higher than reason. The just lives by faith (Hebrews 10:38). A righteous man moves in a higher sphere, he penetrates the clouds, Moses saw him who is invisible (Hebrews 11:27).

The first is the imputation of Christ's perfect obedience, which is the ground and fountain of all our perfection whatsoever. Hebrews 10:14: By one offering — that is, by his obedience in his death and passion — has he consecrated, or made perfect, forever them that believe. The…

The end of a thing signifies the immediate event, issue, period thereof. As of wicked men it is said, whose end is destruction (Philippians 3; Hebrews 10, last verse). Apostasy and unbelief are said to be a drawing back to perdition.

Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him, in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator. He speaks this specially to such as were continually exposed to persecution to death for Christ in those primitive times; which therefo…

And by this we may conceive what is the sin against the holy Ghost: which is not euery sin of presumption, or against knowledge and conscience: but such a kind of presumptuous offense in which true religion is renounced: and that of set purpose and resolued malice, against the v…

1. Then in general, you would consider that place, (Philippians 2:12-13): Work out the work of your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure; where it is clear, that the exhortation given to them to work o…

Trod not the Son of God under foot, neither account the blood of the covenant an unholy thing. Do not despise the Spirit of Grace, as it is (Hebrews 10:29). He has suffered enough already, let him not be a sufferer again.

If this were seriously considered and laid to heart, O but folk would be humble, nothing would affect the soul more, and sting to the very heart, than to think that Christ suffered for me, through grace an elect and a believer, and that yet notwithstanding I should have so despi…

The first is comprehended in these words, "Sacrifice and offering you didst not desire" (Psalm 40), insinuating that God did desire something. The second in these words, "Mine ears you hast opened, then said I, Lo I come in the volume of your book, it's written of me, I delight…

Hence (John 17), he says, Your they were, and you gave them me, that is, yours they were by election, and you gave them me to be redeemed by me. And (Hebrews 10:10), it is said, that it is by this will that we are sanctified, that is, by the will of the Father, that the Son shou…

When the fire of the vengeance of God shall kindle that lake that burns with fire and brimstone, and when sinners shall be cast into it as so many pieces of wood, or as so many pieces of dry sticks, what will be their condition? It were good in time to fear falling into the hand…

They shall lay their hands on the sin, or sin-offering; because the sacrificed beast was typically to have the people's sins imputed to it, though properly, no man's sin is imputed to any, but to Christ. This is also clear, if we compare (Psalm 40:6) with (Hebrews 10:5-6). That…

If we would enumerate all things imaginable, and invent ways and means without number to remove sin, or to make a sinner's peace with God; there is no other means but this, that will do it. As we have it in Hebrews 10, Christ Jesus by his once offering up of himself, perfects fo…

We show that Jesus Christ is the only sin-offering, by which sin is taken away; and that it is implied here; so that it is denied to all other things, or means to have any efficacy, virtue, or merit in them, as to the removing of sin, and the curse brought on by it; this is, I s…

But we have this advantage by the Gospel; That in it, the Lord has showed to us, what it is that satisfies justice, and takes away sin, and the curse; and that it is even this in the text: You shall make his soul an offering for sin: There is no other thing that a sinner can bri…

Third, we would note that there is a great difference between faith and the effects of it, as peace, joy, assurance of God's love, and these other spiritual privileges that follow believing: it is one thing actually to believe, another thing to have the peace and joy that follow…

1. From the words complexly considered, observe, that Christ's having and obtaining of a Seed; His getting of souls to believe in Him; is a thing most welcome, and acceptable, both to Jehovah, that makes the Promise, and to the Mediator, to whom it is Promised; there is nothing…

It cannot surely be but a fully satisfying price, that such a person should suffer, and suffer so much; even to be put to soul-travail; for which there could be no reason, neither could it have any other end, but the satisfying of divine justice, for the sins of the elect; and c…

1. The sufferings that Christ has endured, and the satisfaction that He has made, in the room of sinners, as the next words hold out, "For he shall bear their iniquities" (Isaiah 53); and the final verse, "He bore the sin of many"; indeed, this is the great scope of the chapter;…

2. It's suitable and meet for the glory of the Mediator, and of his priesthood, that he should not be a priest for a time only, but forever; therefore, when he is brought in as a priest (Psalm 110, compared with Hebrews 7), He is preferred to the order of Aaron, and said to be a…

And this cannot but be a weighty part of his intercession, and very comforting to his people; his longing to have such and such a person converted, such and such a person more mortified, and more perfected, and made more conformed to him. There is a word (Hebrews 10:13) that giv…

4. Disposition for duty, and help in the performance of duty flows from his intercession. It is this that makes us pray, and that gives us boldness in prayer, and in other duties, that there is such a high Priest over the house of God, as it is (Hebrews 10:19-21). It is this tha…

And this keeps always the weight, and honor of our obtaining anything we seek, as a prerogative to Christ, and stops the person's own mouth, from looking to anything in itself to boast of; even as the Rebel has no cause to boast of his getting a hearing from the Prince, but give…

Thirdly, look further, to the greatness of this sin, in the strange names that the Lord puts upon it (1 John 5:11), "He that believes not, has made God a liar;" and is there any sin that has a grosser name or effect than this? For it receives not the report which He has given of…

3. You must die for sinners. This was the third demand; and Christ answers it (Psalm 40; Hebrews 10): You have given me a body, here am I to do your will. To all these three Christ answered with silence: and though in regard of his patience to men, it be said (Isaiah 53:7): He w…

1. Because God dwells in this humbled soul, then he must be justified and converted (Ephesians 3:17): that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. 2. This is a liver by faith, and so justified; the just shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:…