...this hope" of being like God, and of seeing him as he is, " purified} himself:" and says Paul, "Let us fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Admitting, therefore, that hope and fear belong to the gospel scheme, I shall endeavour to point out...

...at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him, 8cc. Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the Gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them,...

...because of 'unbelief? ' With close self-application, he then presses this fact on their consciences: " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Let us labour to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief—for,...

...your Salvation with fear and trembling." " Give diligence to make your calling and election sure." " Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Thus have I exhibited, though imperfectly, what Christ requires of his disciples — for let us not...

...judge His people : it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Heb. x. 30, 31. " Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Heb. iv. 1. QUESTIONS. some other figures of this kind ? — What two great principles of a. holy life...

...rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. 2 The. i. J. He. iv. 1. 29 My yoke.] See chap. vii. 24. While he (Peter) yet spake (on the mount of transfiguration),...

...first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him, &c. Let its therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the Gospel preached as well as unto (hem, but the word preached did not profit them,...

...sin." And what ignorance can we plead ? Or what want of motive ? Or what refusal of assistance 1 " Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left...entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come snort of it." How did our Saviour upbraid the cities in which he had done so many mighty' works, because...

...rest, but to them that believe not 1 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. — Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.' — HEB. iii. 11,18, 19, and iv. 1. IT has been supposed, that, by not entering into rest, is here...

...the benefit of God's promises if we do not make conseience of, and endeavour to keep, his commands. gI x ˳$G ' m bz ʋ ͔e թSO H +T J F -3 Lό O # f n3V,` լY / 0 Heb. iv. 1. III. We are taught the blessed fruits of these promises. 1. These promises furnish us with...