HEB. 12:1. WHEREFORE, SEEING WE ALSO ARE COMPASSED ABOUT WITH SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES, LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT, AND THE SIN WHICH DOTH SO EASILY BESET (US), AND LET US RUN WITH PATIENCE THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE US, The "cloud of witnesses" is a model for religious affections: Sloth... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:2. LOOKING UNTO JESUS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF (OUR) FAITH; WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND IS SET DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. _ Blank Bible: _ vs 2. _Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith etc._] The apostle having... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:3-7. FOR CONSIDER HIM THAT ENDURED SUCH CONTRADICTION OF SINNERS AGAINST HIMSELF, LEST YE BE WEARIED AND FAINT IN YOUR MINDS. YE HAVE NOT YET RESISTED UNTO BLOOD, STRIVING AGAINST SIN. AND YE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION WHICH SPEAKETH UNTO YOU AS UNTO CHILDREN, MY SON, DESPISE NOT THOU TH... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:8. BUT IF YE BE WITHOUT CHASTISEMENT, WHEREOF ALL ARE PARTAKERS, THEN ARE YE BASTARDS, AND NOT SONS. Rather strangely perhaps this text is claimed in support of admitting to church membership only those who "were to appearance true Christians." (7) It is a clear evidence, not only that it... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:9. FURTHERMORE, WE HAVE HAD FATHERS OF OUR FLESH WHICH CORRECTED (US), AND WE GAVE (THEM) REVERENCE: SHALL WE NOT MUCH RATHER BE IN SUBJECTION UNTO THE FATHER OF SPIRITS, AND LIVE? Incidental to his main purpose in detailing the duties of a minister, Edwards here gives a fine definition of... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:10. FOR THEY VERILY FOR A FEW DAYS CHASTENED (US) AFTER THEIR OWN PLEASURE; BUT HE FOR (OUR) PROFIT THAT (WE) MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF HIS HOLINESS. In his first published sermon, "God Glorified," Edwards shows the saints' holiness derives from God, Hebrews 12:10. The redeemed have all their i... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:11-13. NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS: NEVERTHELESS, AFTERWARD IT YIELDETH THE PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEM WHICH ARE EXERCISED THEREBY. WHEREFORE LIFT UP THE HANDS WHICH HANG DOWN, AND THE FEEBLE KNEES; AND MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS FOR YOUR FEE... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:14. FOLLOW PEACE WITH ALL (MEN), AND HOLINESS, WITHOUT WHICH NO MAN SHALL SEE THE LORD: Holiness is "the common beaten road in which all the godly travel" according to the sermon, "Hypocrites Deficient in Duty of Prayer." 4. Consider how living in such a neglect is inconsistent with leadi... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:15. LOOKING DILIGENTLY LEST ANY MAN FAIL OF THE GRACE OF GOD; LEST ANY ROOT OF BITTERNESS SPRINGING UP TROUBLE (YOU), AND THEREBY MANY BE DEFILED; In the sermon on "The Nature and End of Excommunication," Edwards cites this text to show that church members must testify against sin. That t... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:16. LEST THERE (BE) ANY FORNICATOR, OR PROFANE PERSON, AS ESAU, WHO FOR ONE MORSEL OF MEAT SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT. In the "Folly of Procrastination" Hebrews 12:16 shows the danger of counting on a death-bed repentance: Is it not the very ground on which you venture so and so to gratify your... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:17. FOR YE KNOW HOW THAT AFTERWARD, WHEN HE WOULD HAVE INHERITED THE BLESSING, HE WAS REJECTED: FOR HE FOUND NO PLACE OF REPENTANCE, THOUGH HE SOUGHT IT CAREFULLY WITH TEARS. _ Blank Bible: _ 17] The word inherit is used because the blessing was what would have descended to him from his Fa... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:18. FOR YE ARE NOT COME UNTO THE MOUNT THAT MIGHT BE TOUCHED, AND THAT BURNED WITH FIRE, NOT UNTO BLACKNESS, AND DARKNESS, AND TEMPEST, _ Blank Bible: _ [18. _For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched to._] This comes in as an enforcement of the precept that the apostle ha... [ Continue Reading ]
Heb. 12:19-20 HEBREWS 12:19-20. AND THE SOUND OF A TRUMPET, AND THE VOICE OF WORDS; WHICH (VOICE) THEY THAT HEARD ENTREATED THAT THE WORD SHOULD NOT BE SPOKEN TO THEM ANY MORE: (FOR THEY COULD NOT ENDURE THAT WHICH WAS COMMANDED, AND IF SO MUCH AS A BEAST TOUCH THE MOUNTAIN, IT SHALL BE STONED, OR... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:21. AND SO TERRIBLE WAS THE SIGHT, (THAT) MOSES SAID, I EXCEEDINGLY FEAR AND QUAKE:) _ Blank Bible: _ vid No. 81 _Moses said]_ i.e., he wrote this of himself as he gives account in the 19 of Exod. 16 v (Exodus 19:16) that all the people that was in the camp trembled including himself for... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:22. BUT YE ARE COME UNTO MOUNT SION, AND UNTO THE CITY OF THE LIVING GOD, THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM, AND TO AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF ANGELS, _ Blank Bible: _ 22, 23, 24] see p. 704** 704** Hebrews 12:22; Hebrews 12:23; Hebrews 12:24 But ye are come unto Mt. Sion etc.] There seems to be thro... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:23. TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN, AND TO GOD THE JUDGE OF ALL, AND TO THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN MADE PERFECT, _ Blank Bible: _ [and 23 - _First-born_] (?) p. 704?? - Hebrews 12:23 - And church of the first born] "The Priests of God the den... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:24. AND TO JESUS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, AND TO THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING, THAT SPEAKETH BETTER THINGS THAN (THAT) OF ABEL. _ Blank Bible: _ "24+] vid last vol.p.p.10**" A _Miscellaneous Observation _ "Concerning the Necessity and Reasonableness of the Christian Doctrine of Satisf... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:25. SEE THAT YE REFUSE NOT HIM THAT SPEAKETH: FOR IF THEY ESCAPED NOT WHO REFUSED HIM THAT SPAKE ON EARTH, MUCH MORE (SHALL NOT) WE (ESCAPE), IF WE TURN AWAY FROM HIM THAT (SPEAKETH) FROM HEAVEN: _ Blank Bible: _ Hebrews 12:25; Hebrews 12:26. _See that ye refuse not him that speaketh._]... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:26. WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH: BUT NOW HE HATH PROMISED, SAYING, YET ONCE MORE I SHAKE NOT THE EARTH ONLY, BUT ALSO HEAVEN. _ Blank Bible: _ 26v _whose voice then shook the Earth etc._] the voice that spoke on earth shook the earth but the voice that speaks to us from Heaven shakes... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:27-28. AND THIS (WORD), YET ONCE MORE, SIGNIFIETH THE REMOVING OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE SHAKEN, AS OF THINGS THAT ARE MADE, THAT THOSE THINGS WHICH BE SHAKEN MAY REMAIN. WHEREFORE WE RECEIVING A KINGDOM WHICH CANNOT BE MOVED, LET US HAVE GRACE, WHEREBY WE MAY SERVE GOD ACCEPTABLY WITH REVERE... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 12:29. FOR OUR GOD (IS) A CONSUMING FIRE. "God is a consuming fire" was a sermon preached by Edwards sometime between August and December 1731, before the first awakening in Northampton. A decade later (May 1742) he preached another at the height of the second from an outline, entitled, "God... [ Continue Reading ]