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mands 9 , lOj he directs 11 , 12 , he promises from God 13—19 he proraise 5 from Christ 20 . I intend to make a very few remarks on each of these divisions—I . The meaning-of the word
perfection may be collected from other verses of the epistle . The law was not perfect , vii . 11— - 19 . ix * 9 . x . 1 . The elders were not perfect , xi . 40 , But Christ is perfect , ii . 10 . v * 9 .
The gospel is perfect , ii . IQ . ix . 11 . x . 14 . Good men in heaven are perfect , xii . 23 . And he prftys to God to make the Hebrews
perfect , xiii . 21 . Let us consider the character of Christy and the promises and rules of the gospel , and the descriptions of heaven , and let us pray to the Almighty .
The third verse expresses the hope which every Christian teacher may have in God . The reason of that hope is in the 7 th and 8 th verses . The 10 th verse confirms this hope from the character of God , And the 13 th ver § e goes further , to his express promise .
II . Consider the connexion with the first part . If we would avoid so frightful a consequence we must press toward no less than perfection . A strong piesumption that we must prove ourselves by « ur fruits . —If this is not against instantaneous conversion , at least
Jt is totally against our consciousness of it . III . Though the danger is great and therefore tlje caution reasonable , yet he wishes rather to glad - den than grieve . The same Ch ristian spirit is shewn in 2 Cor . »• 24 . ii . 1—4 , 8 .
All our good works are our bounden duty , they are all beneficial to ourselves , they are not e < lual to what we ought to do , God
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Remarks on Hebrews , ch . vu 487
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himself works in us , and enables to perform them—when we reckon these four things , how exceeding rich is God in mercy , that he should remember our work , and account it right and righteous to reward it . IV . What we have done is a
reason not against doing more , but for it . If God does not forget our work and labour , still we ought to forget it . Phil . iii . 13 . Faith and patience ( verse 12 ) may be thus distinguished . Faith is one of the principles ( or ,
according to the Greek , a part of ct ^ yri the beginning ) patience shews a going on to perfection . The word is i&a , K $ o 9 v [ Aiec ( not vrfo ^ ovri ) and is translated long suffering , in 2 Cor . vi . 6 , ( in the 4 th verse of which chapter we have UTTo / X / Ovn patience ;) This is not properly a single operation of the mind , but rather includes several continued operations *
m . The word inherit may seem to disagree with what is said in xi , 13 , 39 , that the elders received not the promises . The answer is , that this does not refer to time . The present tense is used because the most simple . Encouragement is interwoven with this direction , hope 11—and promises 12 . V * The encouraging words , promises and hope , are here enlarged on .
VL This last v-erse in connection with the seven preceding , repeats in other worcis what our Saviour says John xiv . 1 . Believe in God , believe also in me . It also points to tl&e same place , called here ( 19 ) within the veil , there ( 2 ) his Father ' s house . Is not every art tried here ? First their reason is addressed , q . < 1 ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/39/
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