Hebrews 5

Here let me speak to two things: 1. That we should be grounded in the knowledge of fundamentals. 2. That this grounding is the best way to settling. 1. That we should be grounded in the knowledge of fundamentals: the Apostle speaks of the first principles of the oracles of God (…

It was a sorrow guided with reason, not disturbed with passion. 4. Fear (Hebrews 5:7). He was heard in that he feared.

But Christ only can intercede for us Ex Officio. God has consecrated him a high priest (Hebrews 5:6). You are a priest forever.

Obey and I will be your God. My Spirit shall be your guide, sanctifier and comforter (Hebrews 5:9). Christ became the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him.

Question: When are we fitted for deliverance? Answer: When we are by our afflictions conformed to Christ: namely, when we have learned obedience (Hebrews 5:8): He learned obedience by the things which he suffered: that is, he learned sweet submission to his Father's will (Luke 2…

Those who exercise in the ministerial function must have a lawful call. Hebrews 5:4: No man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called of God. Christ gave not only the Apostles and Prophets a call to their office (who were extraordinary ministers), but even pastors and te…

These feed themselves, and starve the flock: either through non-residing they do not preach, or through insufficiency they cannot. There are many in the ministry (a shame to speak it) so ignorant, that they had need to be taught the first principles of the Oracles of God (Hebrew…

Hot coals were to be put to the incense to make it odoriferous and fragrant; fervency of affection is like coals put to the incense, it makes prayer ascend as a sweet perfume. Christ prayed with strong cries (Hebrews 5:7). Clamor iste penetrat nubes. Luther.

So the apostle's buffetings (2 Corinthians 12) made him pray three times — that is, often. So Christ in Luke 22:44, being in agony, 'prayed more earnestly'; and being in fears he offered up 'strong cries' (Hebrews 5:7). So Heman by reason of his terrors was a man much in prayer:…

Oh let us therefore learn to abase ourselves, and to carry about us contrite and bleeding hearts, and be confounded in ourselves for our sins past. The last point is the event of the prayer, which is to be heard, as the author of Hebrews says, Christ Jesus in the days of the fle…

Objection 5. Hebrews 5:12: God's word is of two sorts — milk and strong meat. By milk we must understand the word of God written, wherein God speaks plainly to the capacity of the rudest; but strong meat is unwritten traditions, a doctrine not to be delivered to all but to those…

When the hour of his danger and death drew near, he went into the garden, separated from the disciples, and there wrestled mightily with God in prayer, even to an agony. In reference to which the apostle says (Hebrews 5:7): 'Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up p…

(though he was God as well as man) how will this be gotten borne? This looks as if death would get the victory; thus it's said Hebrews 5:7, In the days of his flesh he offered up strong cries and supplications with tears, and was heard in that which he feared, he put up strong c…

1. It did consist (as we hinted before) in the Godhead's suspending its comfortable influence for a time from the human nature; Though our Lord had no culpable anxiety, yet He had a sinless fear, considering Him as man; and that the infinite God was angry, and executing angrily…

Even such a High Priest as sinners had need of: there has been much spoken of one part of his priesthood, to wit, his sacrifice, and offering up of himself, in the former verses of this chapter; now before the Prophet closes, he gives a hint of the other part of his priestly off…

There are in these choice sermons, depths as it were for elephants to swim in (whereof his [reconstructed: surprising], sublimely spiritual and very deep diving discourses concerning the nature of Christ's intercession, and the right improvement of it, in the last six sermons, i…

Nor is it true, that Gospel-grace and liberty entitles the saints now to such wantonness of peace, as that persons fully assured of deliverance from the curse of the law, are never to be troubled for sins committed in the state of free justification; nor are they any more to mou…

Answer: All these prove this place will prove only, we are to pray for magistrates under whom we have peace, and the Gospel, not for believers, and so not for all Adam's sons; as the next words, page 59, prove. Object 13. Here is a ground to preach the Gospel to all men, to ever…

As (you know) when a general comes home there is usually great observing how the king takes his service as performed according to commission. Christ as a surety undertook for sinners fully to conquer all our enemies, and God bade him look that he did it perfectly or never see hi…

Not but that his death was a perfect oblation — it was perfect for an oblation, to which as such nothing can be added. There needed no more, nor any other price to be paid for us; by that one offering he perfects us forever (Hebrews 10:14) and became himself perfect thereby (Heb…

And therefore the Apostle (in the text) when he speaks of this our High-Priest's being entered into heaven, he makes mention of a throne of grace, and this in answer to that in the type both of the High-Priest of old, and of the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies. And further to c…

1. Negatively: It is certain that this affection of sympathy or fellow-feeling in Christ is not in all things such a kind of affection as was in him in the days of his flesh. Which is clear, by what the Apostle speaks of him and of his affections then (Hebrews 5:7), Who in the d…

Believe that you shall receive, and you shall receive it; meaning, so far as you have commended your petitions to God, in the name of Christ, with subjection to the will of your heavenly Father; believe it, that God has respect to your poor estate, and he will do for you what yo…

Christ is so a Prophet, that he is also a sovereign; and does not only give us counsel and direction, but a law, which we are to observe under the highest penalties. If the Gospel were an arbitrary direction, which we might observe or not observe, without any great danger to our…

We meet with him in this solitary duty sometimes in the day, sometimes in the night, sometimes all night; in a garden, in a mountain, he took all opportunities to go to his Father. All the days of his flesh he offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears (He…

Again, I answer, that an error in action, presupposes an error in mind, or at the least, some ignorance: because the mind is the beginning of the thing done. Thus all sinners, are called ignorant persons (Hebrews 5:2). And it seems that the error of Peter was, that of two evils,…

If we compare person and person: but it is otherwise, if we compare bodie with bodie, and compare the Christian church, with the Church of the Iewes before Christ: then we exceede them and they are but children to vs. This must teach vs all, to be carefull to increase in knowled…

Secondly, those that have received a greater portion of the Spirit, and a greater measure of spiritual graces, of whom Paul speaks (1 Corinthians 14:37): If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual — Of the latter, the words are to be understood: and by them he meant t…

Easy, in that the entrance into the word gives light and understanding to the simple (Psalm 119:130). Difficult, in that some things are hard to be understood (2 Peter 3:16) and hard to be interpreted (Hebrews 5:11). Easy, to invite us to read and learn them; difficult, to exerc…

But the answer to this is easy, for the question is not here touching God's eternal election, whereby we are adopted for his children, but only of the establishing and consecration of Christ ordained to this office, that we should not think he intruded himself into it at random.…

Because the purgation wherewith we are cleansed, that is, the death of Christ, was ratified and approved in regard of his intercession towards the Father, it was necessary this should be added. For as in the Old Testament, the high priest, who never entered without blood, made p…

Our Prophet has conjoined these two manners of teaching together, namely, both the inward, and the outward. For he calls those the children of the Church, who are taught of the Lord: if they be children, then have they been conceived in her womb, and nursed up in her lap, first…

The next ought to follow, that, having experienced God to be a kind Father, they may "offer to him thanksgiving," (Psalm 50:14.) The Greek word σωτὴρ, Savior, has a more extensive signification than the Latin word Servator; for it means not only that he once delivers, but that h…

It was by a wonderful purpose of God, that Luke exhibited Christ to us as the son of Adam, while Matthew confined him within the single family of Abraham. For it would be of no advantage to us, that Christ was given by the Father as "the author of eternal salvations" (Hebrews 5:…

Let the reader always consider the purpose for which passages of Scripture are brought forward by the Evangelists, so as not to stick too closely to the particular words, but to be satisfied with this, that the Evangelists never torture Scripture into a different meaning, but ap…

As: no man taketh this honor to himself, but he who is called of God (Hebrews 5:6) is justly entitled to this rank, God declares that he who comes forward in this character was elected by his decree.

It comes now to be inquired, what advantage did Christ gain by praying? The apostle, in writing to the Hebrews, says that he was heard (ἀπὸ τῆς εὐλαβείας) on account of his fear: for so ought that passage to be explained, and not, as it is usually explained, on account of his re…

He had formerly, indeed, been sufficiently voluntary as to dying; but, when he came to the point, he had a hard struggle with the weakness of the flesh, so that he would willingly have withdrawn from dying, provided that he had been permitted to do so with the good-will of his F…

Take it meerly for a nescience of some things, and there is no more in it but a denial of Infinite Omniscience, nothing inconsistent with the highest Holiness and Purity of Humane Nature. So the Lord Christ sayes of himself, that he knew not the Day and Hour of the End of all th…

And this Alienation or Aversation appears in two things; (1.) In its unreadiness and unaptness to receive Instructions in and about the Concernments of it. Hence are Men dull and flow of heart to believe, Luke 24. 25. [[original in non-Latin script]], Heb. 5. 11, 12. Heavy in He…

Section 1. One principal end of God's design in sending his Son into the world was to recover us into a state of holiness which we had lost — for this purpose was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8), the principal of which was the…

The soul solacing itself in a pleasant meditation of God, whereby its delight in him is excited and stirred up. The latter (understanding sense spiritually, as it belongs to the new creature, and is taken in (Philippians 1:9; Hebrews 5, final verse)) may be called sensitive deli…

It was doubtless Christ's main act of obedience, because it was obedience to a command that was attended with immensely the greatest difficulty, and so to a command that was the greatest trial of his obedience; his respect shown to God in it, and his honor to God's authority, wa…

This commandment I received of my Father. And Christ was thoroughly obedient to this command of God (Hebrews 5:8; Philippians 2:8). Never was there such an instance of obedience in man nor angel, as this; though he that obeyed was at the same time, supreme Lord of both angels an…

Crying unto God is an expression that does not only denote prayer, but intense and fervent prayer. To cry is to pray in a holy passion; and such are usually effective prayers (Psalm 18:6 and Hebrews 5:7). The encouragements to this resolution are twofold.

Secondly, We see the application it self consists in, and is made by the prayer of faith; or crying unto God; now this is done with intenseness of mind; which has a twofold fruit or property; (1.) Importunity; and (2.) Constancy. It is said of our blessed savior, that when he wa…

And this wisdom []ef[]ll[] not at all to the deuill and his angels, though they know much, nor to all that are Christians in name; but onely to the members of his mysticall bodie by faith. This heauenly wisdom has two actions: First, to discerne []right of things that differ, an…

He teaches and preaches in the name of God by virtue of calling from God, and otherwise dares not presume to teach: Rom. 10. 14. How shall he teach unless he be sent: and the author to the Hebrewes saith, Christ tooke not the honour of beeing the high Priest and Prophet of the C…

2. Young men, who are strong, well-advanced Believers, such were the Virgins and upright here made mention of. A third sort are styled little children, that is, some who (as it were) are yet on the breasts, and that in knowledge, practice, or experience, had not come to a consis…

Where there is no amendment of life, there can be no forgiveness of sins, nor true hopes of salvation: for Christ is given us, not to save us in our sins, but from them. He is the author of eternal salvation to all those that obey him (Hebrews 5:9). And thus you see of what abso…