Hebrews 2

We must enter into glory as Christ did; first he suffered shame and death, and now is exalted to sit at God's right hand. 2. Use of Comfort: Branch 1. Christ being so highly exalted, has ennobled our nature, he has crowned it with glory, and lifted it up above angels and archang…

If he would come to any, why not to the angels that fell? (Hebrews 2:16) He in no wise took upon him the nature of angels. The angels are of a more noble lineage, more intelligible creatures, more able for service; but behold the love of Christ, he came not to the fallen angels,…

Holiness is one of the precious stones which shines on the breastplate of our High Priest. 2. He is faithful (Hebrews 2:17). It behooved him to be like to his brothers, that he might be a faithful High Priest.

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 God's glory than the angels, for God has h…

5. That God should take great numbers out of the Devil's family and adopt them into the family of Heaven. Christ is said to bring many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10). Men adopt usually but one heir, but God is resolved to increase his family, he brings many sons to glory.

As a nobleman is distinguished from another by his silver star; as a virtuous woman is distinguished from a harlot by her chastity; so holiness distinguishes between the two seeds. All that are of God, as they have Christ for their captain (Hebrews 2:10), so holiness is the whit…

Quest. 4. How does Faith make God to be our Father? Resp. As Faith is a uniting grace; by Faith we have coalition and union with Christ, and so the kindred comes in; being united to Christ the natural Son, we become adopted sons: God is the Father of Christ; Faith makes us Chris…

6. Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing. Hebrews 2:1. We ought to give the more diligent heed to the things we have heard, lest at any time we let them slip. [illegible], lest we let them run out as water out of a sieve.

Christ is the wonder of beauty (Psalm 45:2): Fairer than the children of men; is there anything in beauty to offend? Christ is a mirror of mercy (Hebrews 2:17); why should mercy offend any? Christ is a Redeemer; why should a captive slave be offended at him who comes with a sum…

2. Christ's succor in temptation; as the good Samaritan first had compassion on the wounded man, there was sympathy, then he poured in wine and oil, there was succor (Luke 10:34). So when we are wounded by the Red Dragon, Christ is first touched with compassion, and then he pour…

And as a son of consolation and child of light is enabled to comfort others the more by the comfort with which he himself has been comforted of God, so this Prince of Darkness is the more powerful to terrify weak consciences that are ensnared with the cords of their own sins, by…

We are a middle sort of creatures between them and beasts — beasts being merely corporeal, they merely spiritual, man between both. He made us 'a little inferior to the angels' (Hebrews 2), though but a little, yet inferior; and in respect of that inferiority we are exposed to t…

And further whereas Christ beside our nature took our infirmities also, it is a wonderful comfort to God's church: for it shows, that he is not only a Savior, but also a very compassionate and pitiful Savior. As the Holy Ghost says, in all things it became Christ to be like to h…

What there is said of salvation in the whole, is here of that particular salvation of a separate soul. You have the like emphasis put (Hebrews 2:10) of bringing many sons to glory [it became him] says the text. Now put all together, and the result is:

For instance; in giving an account, why God in bringing many sons to glory, did choose to effect it by Christ's death, rather than any other way. It became him (says he) (Hebrews 2:10). For whom are all things, and by whom are all things, etc. And so in the point of the resurrec…

Second, the curse must be borne by man; the nature that sinned must die; the party offending must satisfy in his own person, or in a guarantor. And third, by our Lord's becoming man: first, he came to have a right, as being near of kin to sinners, to redeem them; and second, by…

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…

There is the way held out for obtaining pardon of sin, and peace, the Lord has made the offer, and laid a fair bridge over the gulf of distance between God and sinners, though you should never get good of it, and though you should never set a foot on the bridge; none needs to fe…

When the poor sinner says, I have nothing to pay, but there is a price in Christ's satisfaction offered in the Gospel, and the Judge says, admits it for the sinner that lays claim to it, as if the sinner had never sinned, or had actually paid the price himself. But 4. Look a lit…

Indeed, he stands there himself, to keep the memory of his blood fresh; and by each appearance of him there, who is never out of the sight of the Majesty of God, there is still a representation of the worth and efficacy of his sacrifice, and for whom, and for what it was offered…

And therefore, although I cannot win out of the grips of this temptation, yet he can rebuke it, and break the force of it. And hence is that comfortable word (Hebrews 2, last verse): "For that he himself suffered, and was tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted." Som…

Sorrow and sadness found a kindly lodging in him. 2. He had a clay tent of flesh and blood, as the children have, that (Hebrews 2:15) he might deliver them, who through the fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage. He must in our nature put on actual fear to del…

Men think it but a step to Christ, and Heaven; ah! we have but a poor and timorous suspicion of heaven, by nature, it is no less than a creation to be drawn to Christ. 2. We are needy sinners, and need as much mercy, as would save the Devils, as may be gathered from (Hebrews 2:1…

So by John Baptist's ministry, all and every one of his hearers must be converted, why? As Arminians expound many that Christ died for (Matthew 20:28) to be all and every man without exception (1 Timothy 2:6, Hebrews 2:9, 1 John 2:1) so they are debtors to us for the same libert…

He speaks it of the devils our enemies and accusers — they had all God's threatenings in his law and the ceremonial law (the bond for our debt to the moral law) to show for it; in these lay the power of the devil over us, that he could boldly come to God and accuse us and sue ou…

When he was to assume an humane nature, he is brought in, saying, (Hebrews 10.) A body hast you fitted me: That is, an humane nature, fitted as in other things, so in the temper of it, for the God-head to work and show his perfections in best. And as he tooke an humane nature on…

And Secondly, That those kind of expressions which were used of God before the Assumption of our nature, only in a way of metaphor and similitude (after the manner of men) should in no further, or more real and proper sense be spoken of Christ and his humane nature now assumed,…

We have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father. We look at God as a Father, and we walk before him not in fear, but in liberty; and therefore we are free from the fear of death, to which, some are all their lifetime subject to bondage (Hebrews 2:14-15). Now…

Adam lost the day before he had any offspring, so Christ wins it in his own person before he does solemnly begin to preach the Gospel, and call disciples: and therefore here was the great overthrow of the adversary. 2. In regard of Satan who by his conquest got a twofold power o…

Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Christ came and died to free us from them, that we might serve God cheerfully (Hebrews 2:14-15): Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself took pa…

So in the Christian church, when the Gospel was first set on foot, it was then confirmed with signs and wonders, but now they are unnecessary. See the law and Gospel compared (Hebrews 2:2-4). For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedienc…

The Revelation is settled, and not delivered by parcels, as it was to the ordinary prophets. Now we hear Christ in the Scriptures (Hebrews 2:3-4): "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which was first spoken by the Lord and afterwards confirmed to us by them tha…

The teacher then properly in the ministry of the New Testament to the very end of the world, is Christ himself. This must teach us reverence in hearing God's word, and care with diligence in keeping of it (Hebrews 2:1-3 etc.). Secondly this teaches us, that they which embrace no…

The curse without us, is threefold. The first is, a spiritual bondage under the power of the devil: who by reason of sin, works in the hearts of unbelievers (Ephesians 2:2), and has the power of death (Hebrews 2:14). The second, is an enmity of all the creatures with man, since…

And it has three parts. The first is, bondage under Satan, who keeps unrepentant sinners in his snare according to his own will (2 Timothy 2:26), he rules in their hearts like a God (2 Corinthians 4:4), and has power to blind them, and to harden their hearts, till he have brough…

And never so much as lightly considered his own sins, which Paul here would have us to consider, and therefore he is reproved. Paul would have us consider ourselves, because the serious consideration of our own weakness, will move us to practice this duty of meekness: for as we…

If we then consider well of this work of our deliverance as we ought, we shall have exceeding abundant matter given us to praise God. When he says in the last member, that this is known in all the world; he therein touches the calling of the Gentiles, and confirms that which has…

Neither does the Prophet mean this alone of Christ's first coming, but of the whole course of his kingdom, until his last appearing: as we have often said in other places. The world therefore you see, is created anew (as you would say) by Christ: for which cause also the Apostle…

Nay, the apostle, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, not satisfied with elevating the word of the gospel, which speaks by the mouth of men, to an equality with the law brought by angels, draws an argument from the less to the greater. “If the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and…

If it takes nothing from his glory, that he was altogether, “emptied,” (ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσε, Philippians 2:6,) neither does it degrade him, that he chose not only to grow in body, but to make progress in mind. And certainly when the Apostle declares, that, “in all things he was made…

25. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub This is equivalent to calling himself Lord of the Church, as the apostle, when comparing him to Moses and the prophets, (Hebrews 3:1) says, that they were servants, but that he is the Son and heir. Though he bestows on th…

whenever it was necessary that the human nature should act separately, according to what was peculiar to itself, in discharging the office of Mediator. There would be no impropriety, therefore in saying that Christ, who knew all things, (John 21:17) was ignorant of something in…

Way and Manner of the Divine Dispensation of the HOLY SPIRIT. CHAP. V. (1.) Dispensation of the Spirit to be learned from the Scripture only; general Adjuncts thereof. (2.) The Administration of the Spirit and his own Application of himself to his Work how expressed. (3.) The Sp…

Phil. 2. 6, 7. Heb. 2. 14. 17; which Places with many others to the same Purpose, I have elsewhere expounded, and vindicated from the Exceptions of the Socinians. Sect. 5 2.

Hearing these things [[original in non-Latin script]], they were pierced with perplexing Grief in their Heart. Their eyes are opened to see the Guilt and Sense of Sin, which pierces them through with dividing Sorrow. (2.) Fear of Eternal Wrath; This keeps the Soul in bordage, He…

As Eve was of Adam; she was one with him because she had the same Nature with him, and that derived from him, which the Apsotle alludes to, so are we of him, partakers of the same Divine Nature with him. Thus he that is Joyned to the Lord is one spirit, 1 Cor. 6. 17. that is, of…

The heinousness of this sin of rejecting a Savior especially appears in two things: First, the greatness of the benefits offered; which appears in the greatness of the deliverance, which is from inexpressible degrees of corruption and wickedness of heart and life, and from miser…

How much more may we say? when we consider your Son, that lay in your bosome, his infinite excellency, and unspeakable dearness to you; Lord, what is man, that such a Christ should be delivered to death for him! for him, and not for fallen Angels! Hebrews 2:16 for him when in a…

Hence he is said to have washed us in his blood, Revelation 1:5. In himself, to have purged our sins, Hebrews 1:3. by one offering to have taken away sin, and for ever to have perfected them that are sanctified, Hebrews 10. to be the ransome and propitiation of our sins, 1 Johnn…

Orherwhile it is given to the particular persons in Trinitie; as first and principally to the first person, who is commonly called the Father. And the second person in Trinitie is sometime called Father, as Isa. 9. 6. the father of Eternitie: because he is the ground of our adop…