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.

And the phrase of bearing sin, of bearing iniquity, is constantly used for the undergoing of the punishment due to sin. (2.) It had the end of a proper sacrifice; it made expiation of sin, propitiation and atonement for sin with reconciliation with God, and so took away that enm…

1. What was done by God the Father in order to the bringing of it about, and that was, he made a proposal of the work to him, and exhibited before him a promise of this reward on the condition of his performance of it; those are the words of the Father (Isaiah 53:13), when he sh…

Q. But is it not a shame for persons of years to be catechized? A. It is a shame, and justly reprovable as a sin, when persons grown to years are so ignorant as to have need to be catechized (Hebrews 5:12, 13; 1 Corinthians 15:34). Q. But how if they be not willing to be catechi…

Q. Who gave Christ a commission or calling to the office of a Mediator? A. As no man can lawfully intrude himself into any office without a lawful calling, no more did Christ intrude himself into the office of a Mediator, but was lawfully called and authorized thereunto by the F…

Q. How else? A. Aaron and his successors being sinners, had need to offer sacrifice first for their own sins, and then for the people's: but Christ being altogether without sin, did offer sacrifice only for the people (Hebrews 5:3; 9:7; 7:26, 27). Q. Is there not some difference…

Q. Why may not men intrude themselves? A. No man must take this honor to himself to be an officer in the church, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron (Hebrews 5:4). Q. And why may not a man be called of God immediately?

Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard of me in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 1:13). When for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have n…

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:…

These things therefore are certain, and belong to faith in this matter. First, that he was a mere man, and no more but so; for (1.) every High Priest was to be taken from among men (Hebrews 5:1), so that the Son of God himself could not have been a Priest had he not assumed our…

We speak wisdom [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], the mysteries of the Gospel wherein such persons discerned the wisdom of God. And so are they called (Hebrews 5:14). This our Savior prayed for in the behalf of his Church immediately before he procured it by his sacrifice (John 17:23…

These in general were his oblation and intercession: For although his intercession be continued in Heaven, yet was it begun on the earth; as his oblation was offered on the earth, but it is continued in Heaven, as to the perpetual exercise of it. The whole preparation to, and ac…

1. He sanctified or dedicated himself to God to be an Offering (John 17:19). 2. He accompanied it with Prayers and Supplications (Hebrews 5:7). 3. There was an Altar which sanctified the Offering, which bore it up in its Oblation, which was his own Divine Nature, as we shall see…

Herewith were all sacrifices to be kindled and burned, which from there were called [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] Firings. But this principally typified his prayers, when he offered himself to God through the Eternal Spirit, which he did with strong cries and supplications or interc…

For how shall he be tender, compassionate, careful towards the souls of others, who knows no reason why he should be so towards his own? The High Priest of old was such an one as could have compassion on the ignorant and them that are out of the way, for that he himself was enco…

2. As a Priest: He is a Priest, and as such to be looked to, and closed with (Hebrews 7:17, 21). The Priest's work was to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins (Hebrews 5:1). Now Christ offered up himself (Hebrews 7:27).

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…

Secondly, the next thing which I am to do is to give you some observations concerning growth in grace, they are these: 1. To discern growth, there is required some time, a total change which is far more sensible than growth, that may be in a instant, then a sinner, now a Saint;…

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…

And if they prevail on themselves to it, it will bring in its own evidence of their freedom. Some, it may be, will say, that indeed they are unskilful in this word of righteousness, as some are (Hebrews 5:13). They know not how to make use of Christ crucified to this end; nor, h…

God gives the Spirit not by measure to him, that every one that is his might receive according to the measure of the gift of Christ. This therefore was the great blessing he prayed for in that wonderful prayer, that he uttered for his disciples and all his future Church, the eve…

But since neither that corrupted natural theology was corrupted all at once, nor this new theology which we are undertaking was restored all at once and in a single act, but both underwent corruption and attained perfection gradually and in many stages, I have judged it necessar…

The doctrine has been written "plainly," so that "he who reads it may run" (Habakkuk 2:2). God has given His word — "precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there" (Isaiah 28:10; Hebrews 5:13, 14). These propositions, t…

In the whole body of the Law jointly considered, two things are commanded: knowledge and practice (Colossians 1:10). Concerning the first, is commanded the true knowledge of good and evil, which is for the age of every man (Colossians 1:9-10; Philippians 1:9; Hebrews 5:14; Luke…

2 Timothy 3:15. That you have learned the holy Scriptures of a child, which are able to make you wise to salvation, which is in Christ Jesus. Hebrews 5:12. For you, which for a time ought to be better learned, have need to be taught again, what are the principles of the word of…

(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…