| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. — Heb. iii. 12, 13. xii. 15. ii. 1. Let us therefore fear, lest a promise, being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it, &c. — Lest any man fall, &c.— Heb. iv. 1.11. ii. 1,2. Pass the time of your sojourning here in... | |
| John Edmund Jones - 1828 - 416 pages
...islands."* * Isaiah xlii. 11, 12. SERMON VIII. ON COMING SHORT OF THE HEAVENLY REST. HEBREWS iv. 1. Let its therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. THE word of God is the storehouse of heavenly wisdom, and whoever desires to be " thoroughly furnished"... | |
| George Thomas Chapman - 1828 - 424 pages
...nothing;" to be "without spot and blameless;" to be resolute and persevering unto the day of Christ, " lest, a promise being left us of entering into his...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." For motives, I present you, on the one hand, with the best and the fairest recorded in the book of... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 590 pages
...partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end." Heb. iv- 1. "Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise being left...entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come'short of it." 2 Pet. iii. 17. " Ye, therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 618 pages
...and yet shall a Christian say, it must not be preached to disciples as the word of Christ to them? " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it;" Heb. iv. 1. " By faith Noah being warned of God, of things not seen as yet (that is, of the deluge),... | |
| John Howe - 1830 - 290 pages
...trembling : for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." Or, those, " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it V And do we not find a holy fear is to contribute all along to the whole of progressive sanctification... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...Matt. x. 28. Lukexii. 4, 5. " Blessed is he that feareth always." " Be not high minded, but fear." " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." " Let us have grace to serve God, with reverence and godly fear ; for our God, is a consuming fire."... | |
| S. Lee - 1830 - 510 pages
...to them that believed not ? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief . (Chap, iv.) 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,... | |
| John Witherspoon - 1830 - 274 pages
...jealousy over themselves. This indeed seems to be the language of Scripture with regard to us all: "Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Elsewhere says the same apostle, " And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence,... | |
| John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...souls. AMEN. VOL. II.— 44 SERMON XXXI. TBK DANGER OF FORFEITING THE HEAVENLY REST. HEBREWS iv. 1. " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest. any of you should seem to come short of it." Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, says the apostle ; the volume... | |
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