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Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

Hebrews 7:25

Heb. 7:25

Heb. 7:25. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

In Concerning Faith, we read:

§ 69. Faith implies a cleaving of the heart to Christ; because a trusting in others is spoken of as a departing of the heart from the Lord. Jeremiah 17:5, "Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, whose heart departeth from the Lord." So a heart of unbelief is a heart that departeth from the Lord. Hebrews 3:12, "Lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." Faith has a double office. It accepts Christ from God, and presents Christ to God. It accepts Christ in the word, and makes use of him in prayer. In the word, God offereth him to you, as Lord and Saviour, to give you repentance and remission of sins. Now, when you consent to God's terms this is to believe in him. - Faith presents Christ to God; Ephesians 3:12. "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence, by the faith of him." All religion lieth in coming to God by him. Hebrews 7:25, "Wherefore he is able also to save them unto the uttermost, that come unto God through him; seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Dr. Manton, vol. v. p. 382.

Heb. 7:26-28

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