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Then shall they join together in consort, then shall the loud anthems of praise be sung in the heavenly choir. 6. The sixth thing in Glory is a blessed rest (Hebrews 4:9). There remains a rest, Foelix transitus a labore ad requiem, here we can have no rest, tossed and turned as…

Our High Priest has all the names and wants of his people written upon his breastplate: are you tempted? Though Christ be in glory he knows how to pity and help you (Hebrews 4:15): We have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmity. Do you mourn f…

As Christ laid down his life freely (John 10:15, 18), so he intercedes freely. 2. Feelingly; He is sensible of our condition as his own (Hebrews 4:15): We have not a High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmity. As a tender-hearted mother would plead wit…

I come next to answer some objections of the Arminians. 1. The first objection of the Arminians is, if a believer shall persevere in grace, then to what purpose are all those admonitions in Scripture, Let him take heed lest he fall (1 Corinthians 10:12), and (Hebrews 4:1): Let u…

God spoke all these words. Unbelief enervates the virtue of God's word, and makes it prove abortive (Hebrews 4:2). The word did not profit, not being mixed with faith.

When Adam had lost his holiness, he lost his confidence; he hid himself. But the holy person goes to God as a child to his father, his conscience does not upbraid him with allowing any sin, therefore he can go boldly to the throne of grace, and have mercy to help in time of need…

3. We learn God's glory and majesty: He is in Heaven, therefore he is covered with light, (Psalm 104:2) clothed with honor, (Psalm 104:1) and is as far above all worldly princes as Heaven is above Earth. 4. We learn from God's being in Heaven, his Omniscience: All things are nak…

5. Mingle the word preached with faith. Hebrews 4:2. The word preached profited not, not being mixed with faith. If you leave out the chief ingredient in a medicine, it hinders the operation: do not leave out this ingredient of faith.

Nobis compatitur Christus. (Hebrews 4:15) We have not a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Jesus Christ does [illegible], sympathize with us, he is so sensible of our temptations, as if he himself lay under them, and did feel them in his own s…

And such impressions of immediate wrath, as expressions and effects of God's anger, the Holy Ghost may make upon the spirit of his child: for it is a truth that God is angry and wroth with them when they sin, which anger he may make known not only by dumb signs in outward crosse…

As in like manner, that he can only by his wrath immediately make those deep and killing wounds and gashes with which men's souls are often here and hereafter eternally wounded (of which by way of caution also in the next chapter). Which two glorious and incommunicable attribute…

Here I must bring in the same caution I used in the former chapter — namely, that he works not these terrors by immediate impressions upon the conscience, which in that respect is subject to God's stroke alone, as to his knowledge alone. This, as I intimated, I take to be that o…

He will not overdrive them, for God has given him charge that he should lose none of them. Second, if his office did not move him to it, his love would, for he is a merciful and compassionate high priest (Hebrews 4:15). He was in all points tempted as we are — and especially in…

We may likewise observe how he did place this temptation in the forefront of those three assaults which he made upon Christ, who as in his obedience so in his temptations is made a complete example to us. For he was tempted in all things — that is, with all sorts of temptations…

The sixth effect of their faith, is in these words: Escaped the edge of the sword. The words in the original, are thus: Escaped the mouth of the sword: which is the Hebrew phrase in the old Testament, and here followed by the Penman of this Epistle; and before, where he calleth…

And when Saul was going to persecute them in Damascus and elsewhere that called on the name of Christ, he cried from heaven, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me (Acts 9:4)? And this is a notable comfort to God's church and people, that they have a [reconstructed: high priest] wh…

Season 5. The fifth season to exert this diligence in keeping the heart is the time of straits and pressing outward wants. Although at such times we should complain to God, and not of God (the throne of grace being erected for a time of need — Hebrews 4:16), yet when the waters…

She neither expected, nor desired it from him; but so full of tender pity was the Lord towards her, that he prevents her with unexpected consolation: her heart was nothing so full of compassion for her Son, as Christ was for her. He bore our infirmities, even natural as well as…

It were good to fear while you have the Word, lest you miss the fruit of it. Compare to this purpose Hebrews 3, at the close, with Hebrews 4:1, and we will find this commended to us, So we see, says the Apostle, that they could not enter in because of unbelief, let us therefore…

I promised to name a few Scriptures that speak out some more condescending characters of faith. And first, I would think it a good token of faith, to have people feared for missing and falling short of the promises, which may be gathered from Hebrews 4:1. That stout confidence t…

But he was free of the other that implies corruption in the nature. He was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin says the Apostle (Hebrews 4:15). 3. They distinguish infirmities, in these that are called natural and common to all men, as men, and these that are p…

The 4th use of it is, to commend the practice of this to the believer that has indeed fled to Jesus Christ; and to show the great privilege that they have who are such. The practice of it is, that believers should seek to be established and confirmed in the particular applicatio…

The 1st argument is drawn from this same assertion of the prophet, thus: if Christ's death be only a satisfaction for the sins of God's people, then it is not a satisfaction for the sins of all, but it's a satisfaction only for the sins of God's people, therefore not for all, fo…

There will not be only a fear lest he sin and come short in the suitable performance of such a duty, and lest he fall under wrath, but also fear and jealousy lest in his unbelief and selfishness he go wrong in the use making of Christ and of His sacrifice. As is implied in the w…

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…

2. Look to the performance of any duty, or mortification of any lust or idol, and faith is necessary to that (1 John 5:5); it is by faith we obtain victory over the world; it was by faith (Hebrews 11) that all the worthies spoken of there, wrought righteousness, etc. 3. When any…

Second, consider that grace's enlarging of this benefit, to take in many, will be your greatest challenge and aggravation that shall miss, and come short of it. Therefore, let us (as it is, [reconstructed: Hebrews 4:1]) fear, lest having a promise left to us of entering into his…

3. It was meet, in respect of the consolation, that believers in him have from this his intercession; there had been a defect in the consolation of believers, if he had not been intercessor; but seeing, as it is (Hebrews 10:19), we have such a high priest over the house of God,…

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…

The great ground that makes God expostulate with the hearers of the Gospel, and that makes them come under the complaint, (John 5:40) "You will not come to me that you may have life," and (Matthew 23:37) "How often would I have gathered you, and you would not;" and for substance…

Our Savior has appointed the post-way in that prayer, Our Father who are in heaven. We have a friend there who receives the packet; a high priest set at the right hand of the throne of majesty (Hebrews 8:1), who has passed into the heavens (Hebrews 4:14), and is made higher than…

The word the arrow, the Spirit steels and sharpens the arrow. The word the sword, the Spirit the steel-mouth and edge that cuts and divides asunder the soul and the spirit, the marrow and the joints (Hebrews 4:12). It is the same Christ in all his loveliness and sweetness that i…

2 The Scripture holds forth to our faith the power of God to graft in the Jews again in Christ (Romans 11:23), to make a weak believer stand (Romans 14:4), to keep the saints from falling, and to present them faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy (Jude 1:…

And correspondingly the height of our high priest's office (although he alone also could offer a satisfactory sacrifice as the Apostle shows in Hebrews 9 and 10) comparatively lay in this: that he entered into the heavens by his blood and is set down on the Majesty on high, and…

Hebrews 4:15. For we have not a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin. The only use I shall make of these words is, to be a foundation to that second part of that head or point of doct…

HEB. 4:15For we have not an High-Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all things tempted like as we are, yet without sin. §.

Christ being tossed in the tempest of temptations, knows what belongs to the trouble thereof. The other place is (Hebrews 4:15): We have not a high priest, who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. C…

This weapon Christ used all along with success, and therefore it is well called the sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17). It is a sword and so a weapon both offensive and defensive (Hebrews 4:12): The word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing…

Most men live like strangers to the word of God, little conversant in it, as if there were no great hazard in breaking it. 3. Do you mingle it with faith in the hearing, that it may profit you (Hebrews 4:2) and feel the power of it for your good, but rather you shun it, run from…

Your Father which sees in secret. The darkest night, or most secret closet, or most hidden thought of a reserved heart, can neither hide, or be hid from God's all-seeing eye (Hebrews 4:13). God beholds all things in Heaven and on Earth with one simple single act of his understan…

Or shall we think to go our own errand? Lord, forgive this gross ingratitude: Oh Christians, whatever your constraint or enlargements be, make use of him, who is at God's right hand, lay your sacrifices on this golden altar; lay the whole stress of your acceptance upon Christ's…

I know Abraham, says God, he and I are well acquainted, he is my friend, he visits me often, and shall I hide any thing from Abraham? I'll take him to a side, and tell him my whole heart; so will God to you, he will communicate much to you, and you may say any thing to him, you…

The second property of the Ministry of the word, is, that it must be powerful and lively in operation, and as it were crucifying Christ within us, and causing us to feel the virtue of his passion. The word preached must pierce into the heart, like a two edged sword (Hebrews 4:12…

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…

The verb to swear is put for service, reverence, or subjection, by the figure called Synecdoche, when a part is taken for the whole. An oath also is part of the honor which is due to God, for by it we confess and acknowledge that he is the author, father, and lawful protector of…

Now he shows what the force of his mouth is; that is to say, of the doctrine which proceeds out of his mouth, when he compares it to a sharp sword. For the word of God is lively in operation, and more piercing than all two edged swords: for it divides between the soul and the sp…

Nothing now hinders us from entering into the Sanctuary, because the veil of the temple is rent in two. By Christ then we have entrance into heaven, and may boldly and with assurance draw near to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). But so…

I do acknowledge that, if the words only are considered, either all were equally to blame, or Zacharias did nothing wrong. But as the actions and words of men must be judged from the state of the heart, we ought rather to abide by the judgment of God, to whom the hidden secrets…

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…

But, at first sight, it appears strange, that Christ was liable to the temptations of the devil: for, when temptation falls on men, it must always be owing to sin and weakness. I reply: First, Christ took upon him our infirmity, but without sin, (Hebrews 4:15.) Secondly, it detr…