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GOING ON TO PERFECTION
Ebrei 6:1. _Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of
Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation
of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the
doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurre... [ Continua a leggere ]
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THE DANGER OF APOSTASY
Ebrei 6:4. _It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and
have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy
Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the
world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them... [ Continua a leggere ]
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FRUITFUL AND BARREN PROFESSORS
Ebrei 6:7. _The earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon
it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed,
receiveth blessing from God: but that which beareth thorns and briers
is rejected, and is nig... [ Continua a leggere ]
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THE THINGS THAT ACCOMPANY SALVATION
Ebrei 6:9. _But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and
things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For God is not
unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have
shewed toward his name, in that ye have mi... [ Continua a leggere ]
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EXHORTATION TO DILIGENCE
Ebrei 6:12. _Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith
and patience inherit the promises_.
IN the general course of God’s providence, we perceive that
blessings are dispensed in proportion to men’s exertions in the
pursuit of them: and though... [ Continua a leggere ]
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THE CITY OF REFUGE
Ebrei 6:17. _God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that
by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we
might have a strong consolation, who have fled for ref... [ Continua a leggere ]
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THE CHRISTIAN’S ANCHOR
Ebrei 6:19. _Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure
and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail; whither
the Forerunner is for us entered_.
THIS life, we know, is but a passage to a better world; a wilderness
state, leading to... [ Continua a leggere ]