DISCOURSE: 2289 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 ]
DISCOURSE: 2290 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 ]
DISCOURSE: 2291 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 ]
DISCOURSE: 2292 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 ]
DISCOURSE: 2293 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 ]
DISCOURSE: 2294 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 ]
DISCOURSE: 2295 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 ]