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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 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…

As when an office, with the power of it, is constituted and limited by the law of the land, there is no more required to invest any man in that office, or to give him that power, than the due observance of the means and way prescribed in the law to that end. The way then, whereb…

(3) Acts 2:42; 1 Timothy 4:5. (4) Revelation 8:3, 4; Hebrews 4:14, 15, 16; Chap. 6:20; Chap. 10:20, 21, 22. (5) John 14:13; Chap. 15:16, 22, 26; Ephesians 3:14, 15.

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,…

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…

Hence it is (my Honoured friend) First, that in all my writings, I have studied to exalt Jesus the Christ, it being the Primitive Faith once given to the Saints (Matthew 16:16). Secondly, to distinguish Jesus the Christ from all others named with the name of Jesus in Scripture R…

And sundry things must be observed concerning it. 1. That the Apostle changeth his phrase of speech into the first person, we are sanctified, that is, all those believers whereof the Gospel church-state was constituted, in opposition to the church-state of the Hebrews and those…

And Chrysost. inclines to that notion of the word. But [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] is used in all good Authors, for not only to find, but to obtain by our endeavors; so do we render it, and so we ought to do (Romans 4:1; Hebrews 4:16). He obtained effectually eternal Redemption by…

When we apply ourselves to Christ to seek for aid for the subduing and destruction of our spiritual adversaries, by his ruling power, that mighty power whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself, we consider him on the Throne of Majesty in the full possession of all powe…

This expression is sometimes used absolutely for the original of the world in its creation; for the absolute beginning of time and all things measured by it (Ephesians 1:4; Matthew 25:34; John 17:24; 1 Peter 1:20). Sometimes from what immediately succeeded on that beginning (Mat…

But the inheriting of the promises here intended, is a real participation of the grace and mercy proposed in them with eternal glory. This they all received, being saved by faith even as we (Acts 15:10, 11; Hebrews 4:2). Concerning these persons he proposes to them the way that…

2. With affiance in his mediation. And therein faith has respect to two things, (1.) the sacrifice he has offered, the atonement and reconciliation he has made for us, whereon our whole liberty of access to God does depend (Chap. 10:19, 20, 21, 22); (2.) to his intercession wher…

But I must not too far digress. The command of God, the love and care of Christ towards his Church, the ends of God's patience and long-suffering, the future manifestation of his glory in the salvation of believers and the condemnation of those that are disobedient, the necessit…

This the Apostle does so plainly and positively declare, Chap. 10. 19, 20, 21, 22. that I somewhat admire so many worthy and learned expositors should utterly miss of his meaning in this place. The Holies then is the gracious presence of God, whereunto believers draw nigh, in th…

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…

'Tis just with God to give you that are troubled [illegible], rest (2 Thessalonians 1:7). And there is a rest that remaineth for the children of God (Hebrews 4:9), there we rest both from our sorrows and our labours; there is no trouble nor affliction more; all privileges are at…

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…

1. Tremble to rest in beginnings, in ineffectual work; in some tastes and stirrings, enlightnings and meltings, and pangs of sudden joy in hearing the word of faith: as the stony ground (in our text) without making thorough work (Hebrews 4:1). Do not rest in slight work, in some…

Naturally all men rest somewhere else, namely in themselves, in the world, in their carnal contentments and hopes, in their own righteousness. Therefore the believer has changed his rest: his rest is now upon God in Christ Jesus (Hebrews 4:3). For we, which have believed do ente…

Oh! To think, there are many believers that shall never be saved — with what fear and care should it fill us? Hebrews 4:1: Let us fear therefore, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. It is not every running, every be…

For if you respect the literal name, there were many others that were called Jesus, as well as He, at the hearing of whose names, the grossest idolatry is oftentimes committed, by capping, and bowing, before they know what Jesus is intended and spoken of. For the Apocrypha menti…

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…

1. His knowledge (Job 34:21). For, his eyes are upon all the ways of man, and he sees all his goings. Hebrews 4:13. All things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 2. His Providence,

On these and the like occasions it is required, that we make especial, fervent application to the Lord Christ, for such supplies of grace as may be sufficient and efficacious to control the power of sin in them all. This under the consideration of his office and authority to thi…

But if men can on any hopes, or presumptions, or resolutions preserve a kind of peace in their minds, while they live in any known sin; they are nigh the borders of that security, which is the territory wherein sin does reign. Make continual applications to the Lord Christ in al…

First, common knowledge is confused and generall; this is distinct, inward and particular: that is, the voyce of the Sonne of God, speaking in the Ministry to all, may breed a knowledge of truths in men; yet they apply them not to their hearts, and the turnings of them. The Word…

For the gospel itself is the truth according to godliness, as the apostle testifies in the letter to Titus (Titus 1:1). And it is likewise most efficacious; since "the word of God is living and effectual" (Hebrews 4:12); "yes, it is the power of God for salvation to those who be…

For the Lord made heaven and earth in six days, but the seventh he rested. By that seventh day, he points out the Jews' Sabbath, the seventh from the creation, to the which day they were never precisely tied, because being the seventh, it carried a note of perfection, and so did…

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…