Hebrews 11

Be sure to please God, whoever else you displease. This was Enoch's wisdom (Hebrews 11:5). he had this testimony before he died, that he pleased God. Quest. What does this pleasing God imply?

Christ gives the soul a sight of glory, a prospect of eternity (2 Corinthians 4:18): We look not at things which are seen, but [illegible], things which are not seen. Moses saw him who is invisible (Hebrews 11:27). And the patriarchs saw a better country, namely an heavenly (Heb…

The ceremonies of the law which God himself ordained are now abrogated and out of date; Christ the substance being come, the shadows fly away; and therefore the Apostle calls the legal ceremonies carnal rites (Hebrews 9:10), and if not use those Jewish ceremonies which God did o…

In heaven the saints rest with him, on earth they walk with him. To walk with God is to walk by faith; we are said to draw near to God (Hebrews 10:22), and to see him (Hebrews 11:27), as seeing him who is invisible, and to have fellowship with him (Hosea 1:3). Or [⟨ in non-Latin…

The unregenerate man leaves out the chief spice in his duties, and that is faith. And (Hebrews 11:6): without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith lays hold on Christ, and so is accepted.

A moral person may give God outward obedience, and to the eyes of others it seems glorious, but his obedience is sour because it comes not from that sweet and pleasant root of faith. A child of God gives him the obedience of faith, and that meliorates and sweetens his services,…

Do we count all earthly enjoyments but as ([〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]) dung in comparison of Christ? (Philippians 3:8). do we prefer the worst things of Christ, before the best things of the world; the reproaches of Christ, before the world's embraces, (Hebrews 11:26). Quer. 2.…

It is not knowledge though angelic, not repentance though we could shed rivers of tears could justify us, only faith whereby we look on Christ. Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6), and if we do not please him by believing, he will not please us in saving…

This God is our God, Gnolam Vagned, forever and ever. Whatever worldly comforts we have, are but [in non-Latin alphabet], for a season (Hebrews 11:25). We must part with all, as Paul's friends did accompany him to the ship and there left him (Acts 20:28).

True love is not mercenary; a soul that is deeply in love with God, needs not be hired with rewards; he cannot but love God for the beauty of his holiness; not but that it is lawful to look at God's benefits. Moses had an eye to the recompense of reward (Hebrews 11:26). But we m…

Our obedience to God's commands must Profluere à Fide, spring from faith, therefore it is called the obedience of faith (Romans 16:26). Abel by faith offered up [illegible], a better sacrifice than Cain (Hebrews 11:4). Faith is a vital principle, without it all our services are…

Among the Romans the names of their senators were written down in a book, Patres conscripti; God enrolls the names of his children, and will not blot their names out of the register: (Revelation 3:5) I will not blot his name out of the book of life. God will not be ashamed of hi…

If God commands duty, (though cross to flesh and blood) faith obeys. Hebrews 11:8. By faith [reconstructed: Abraham] obeyed. Faith does not only believe the promise, but obey the command.

1. Implied, that there is a God: the question, What is God? takes it for granted that there is a God. The belief of God's essence is the foundation of all religious worship (Hebrews 11:6). He that comes to God must believe that he is [illegible: Greek text]; there must be a firs…

It bottles their tears (Psalm 56:8). It strengthens the saints in their weaknesses (Hebrews 11:34). It supplies all their wants out of its alms-basket (Psalm 23:5).

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They choose Christ with his cross, but this cross leads to a crown. Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God (Hebrews 11:25). It was a wise rational choice, he knew if he suffered he should reign.

The world is the place of a saint's abode, not of his delight; is it thus with us? Do we like the patriarchs of old desire a better country (Hebrews 11:16)? This is the temper of a true saint, his affections are set on the kingdom of God; his anchor is cast in Heaven, and he is…

Let us not hesitate through unbelief; doubting of principles is the next way to denying them: unbelief, as Samson, would pull down the pillars of religion; be confirmed in this, there is a kingdom of glory to come; whoever denies this cuts asunder the main article of the Creed,…

It has been ever the lot of the saints to encounter with sore trials; both of the prophets (James 5:10): Take my brethren the prophets for an example of suffering affliction: And of the apostles, Peter was crucified with his head downward, James beheaded by Herod, John banished…

Could we look through the perspective glass of faith, and take a view of heaven's glory, how small and minute would all other things appear. Moses slighted the honors of Pharaoh's Court, having an eye to the recompense of reward (Hebrews 11:26). Saint Paul who had a vision of gl…

And unbelief is called a departing from him (Hebrews 3:12). Faith also is expressed by the notion of embracing the promise, and so of the good that is brought in it (Hebrews 11:13): "they were perswaded of them, and embraced them." So that every one who believes, has performed t…

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…

In process of time, it came to pass Cain brought of the fruit of the ground, an offering to the Lord, and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof; and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offering, but to Cain, and his offering he had not r…

And whereas ever since the entrance of sin into the world, God had always respect to the promise of the Lord Christ, and his mediation, in whom alone he will be glorified, and faith in whom he aimed to begin and increase in all his worship, he has suited his institutions of the…

You have shewed many excellent benefits that come by faith; but whether is faith of such necessity that these things cannot be without it? Such is the necessity of this grace of faith, that in respect of the usual way of God's dispensation, there is no hope nor possibility that…

Q. Had this world a beginning by creation, or was it from everlasting? A. The scripture in many places, and especially in the first of Genesis does declare that the world was not from everlasting, but had a beginning by the Lord's creating of it (Hebrews 11:3; Revelation 4:11; P…

While we live in this world, men who know no afflictions beyond what they see with their eyes and feel in the outward man — nothing beyond loss of friends and credit — often fear God less, and when they come to part with any of these for God are less willing. But when they shall…

HEBREWS 11:7. By Faith, Noah being warned of God of the things which were as yet not seen, moved with reverence, prepared the Ark to the saving of his household: through the which Ark he condemned the world, and was made heir of the righteousness, which is by faith.

If there be any gracious condition or qualification in us before faith, then there may be something in us pleasing to God before faith. But there is nothing in us pleasing to God before faith (Hebrews 11:6): "But without faith it is impossible for us to please him: for he that c…

If faith be the evidence of things not seen, then when faith itself is hidden and doubtful, which makes all things evident, what can be clear to us. But faith is the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). Therefore when faith itself is hidden and doubtful, sanctification ca…

For, (1.) it was he himself in his own person, that was the principal subject of all the promises of old. Hence they who lived not to enjoy his exhibition in the flesh are said to die in faith, but not to receive the promises (Hebrews 11:39). But it is through the promise that a…

All these things are comprised in this expression of the Apostle, we are sanctified. The designation of such a state for the Church, and the present introduction of it by the preaching of the Gospel, is that whose confirmation the Apostle principally designs in this whole discou…

It is good at all times to fix our faith on that in God, which is meet to encourage our obedience and dependence upon him in our present circumstances. The believers in those days did in a very particular manner confess themselves to be strangers and pilgrims in the earth (Hebre…

Hereon, and with respect hereunto, is the Church-state of the Old Testament said to be weak and imperfect like that of a child under governors and tutors. Hence also it had a yoke imposed on it, causing fear and bondage; God having ordained better things for us, or the Church un…

(1) An all-sufficient Preserver; and (2) An all-sufficient Rewarder: so himself declares the meaning of this expression (Genesis 17:1; Genesis 15:1). I will be all this to them that I am a God to in the way of preservation and recompense (Hebrews 11:6). The declared rule and mea…

And it is used principally for such an oracle of God, as has a warning or caution in it, for the avoiding somewhat on the one hand, as well as doing what is given in charge on the other. So Joseph was [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], divinely warned to avoid the danger that was design…

This it is to receive the Promise in opposition to them by whom it is rejected through unbelief. So Abraham is said to receive the Promises (Hebrews 11:17), in that when they were given to him, he staggered not through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God (Roma…

In the faith of it, the Patriarchs lived and died, and it is testified to in the Psalms and Prophets. With respect hereunto did the Ancients confess that they were strangers and pilgrims in this world, seeking another city and country, wherein they should live with God for ever;…

I shall not give their reasons why it is so, because they are certainly mistaken in their observation. For both is the promise on the one hand mentioned with respect to them, as (Hebrews 11:39), and the promises frequently with respect to us (2 Corinthians 7:1; 2 Peter 1:4). The…

As an Anchor stays not in the Waves of the Sea, as it cannot fix itself in the Waters, but pierces through them until it come to solid Earth in the bottom; no more does or can the Hope of a Believer fix itself on any thing under these Heavens, but it pierces through all till it…

He was their [in non-Latin alphabet] — the first father of all that great family. Secondly, there were such as succeeded him, from whom the whole nation in like manner descended, as Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise (Hebrews 11:4). Thirdly, such as wer…

They are therefore no otherwise meet for God but in and through Christ, according to the infinite condescension which he is pleased to exercise in the Covenant of Grace. Therein does the Lord Christ (1) make our persons accepted, as was that of Abel through faith in him, which w…

Self is the great idol which almost all men worship and serve. 2. No man is bound not to have any eye to himself at all, in what he does (Hebrews 11:26); yet a gracious respect to God, should and does influence every gracious soul, in what he does, in his service. And many there…

So much for defence of the second Reason of the Synod for confirming this sixth Proposition, against what the Reverend Author, in his Answer thereto, says in his Digression, and turning back to the Proposition foregoing. The third Reason of the Synod for this sixth Proposition,…

Because here he is but a pilgrim, and lives in a cottage of clay, and in a tent wherein he must abide but a while, as a pilgrim does, oftentimes carrying his house about with him; and we shall in better sort accept the afflictions which God sends us in this life; if we remember…

2. He is of a noble spirit; he has the spirit of an heir, he scorns anything that is disingenuous and sordid; he can deny himself, but not disparage himself; he can be humble, but not base; he knows not how to palliate the sins of any, which were to wash the Devil's face: He can…

Now usually it falls out so, that they that hold the greatest farms pay the least rent; never is the Lord more neglected and dishonored than in great men's houses, in the very face of all his bounty; if religion chance to get in there, it is soon worn out again; though vices liv…

And if ever you be put to your choice, either to enjoy the greatest outward honors, or to serve Christ with disgrace, choose the latter. Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter when he came to age (Hebrews 11:24, 25). Galeacius Carraciolus left the honor of his…

And in the same passage, verse 51, the ruler with his family is said to believe, who did no more than generally acknowledge that Christ was the Messiah and yielded himself to believe and obey his holy doctrine, being moved thereto by a miracle wrought upon his young son. And Rah…