An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews: With Preliminary Exercitations, Volume 6

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J. Ritchie, 1814

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VERSE 6
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The provision of a mediator between God and man was an
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There is infinite grace in every divine covenant inasmuch as
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Although one state of the church hath had great advantages
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Whatever God had done before for the church yet he ceased
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There is a time limited and fixed for the accomplishment of
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The covenant of grace in Christ is made only with the Israel
131
The grace and glory of the new covenant are much set off
135
Sins have their aggravations from mercies received
141
The covenant of grace as reduced into the form of a testament
150
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in the new covenant in
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The work of grace in the new covenant passeth on the whole
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God doth as well undertake for our being his people as
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The instructive ministry of the old testament as it was such
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The full and clear declaration of God as he is to be known
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CHAPTER IX
190
Every covenant of God had its proper privileges and advan
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The communication of sacred light from Christ in the gifts
210
The more of Christ by the way of representation or exhibition
213
Although the sovereign will and pleasure of God be the only
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A continual application unto God by Christ and a continual
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It is our duty with all humble diligence to inquire into
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Although the Lord Christ was not actually exhibited in
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There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under
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There is nothing in its own nature so mean and abject but
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The bringing forth and accomplishing the glorious effects
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God is so far from being obliged unto any means for the effect
284
The entrance of our Lord Jesus Christ as our high priest into
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There is such an evidence of wisdom and righteousness unto
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Christs offering himself was the greatest expression of his
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Faith hath ground of triumph in the certain efficacy of
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Nothing could expiate sin and free conscience from dead
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Doctrine Base
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Such is the absolute perfection of the one offering of Christ
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It was impossible from the dignity of his person
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It is the prerogative of God and the effect of his wisdom
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Death in the first constitution of it was penal
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Christs appearance the second time his return from heaven
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Whatever there may be in any religious institutions and
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There is a great difference between the shadow of good things
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The discharge of conscience from its condemning right
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It is possible that things may usefully represent what it is
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The Lord Christ had an infinite prospect of all that he was
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The constant use of sacrifices to signify those things which they
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Not only the love and grace of God in sending his Son
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The foundation of the whole glorious work of the salvation
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Whereas the apostle doth plainly distinguish and distribute
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If all those divine institutions in the diligent observance of them
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Christ in this order of things is the great exemplar of the church
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Let us never esteem any thing or any person to be our enemy
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It is not every mistake every error though it be in things
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The way of our entrance into the holiest is solemnly dedicated
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Universal internal sincerity of heart is required of all those
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There is an internal principle of saving faith required unto
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Great diligence is required of us in a due attendance unto
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If men will shut their eyes against evident signs and tokens
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A dreadful expectation of future wrath without hope of relief
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Though there may be sometimes an appearance of great seve
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The apostasy from the gospel here described being the abso
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The name of the living God is full of terror or comfort
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That man is lost for ever who hath nothing in God that
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All temporary sufferings in all their aggravating circumstances
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Faith giving an experience of the excellency of the love
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Our utmost diligence with the most sedulous improvement
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Page 228 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Page 284 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 598 - Now the just shall live by faith : but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 378 - And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Page 517 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh : and having an high priest over the house of God ; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Page 561 - For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord, And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Page 369 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Page 549 - Jews ; who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us. and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Page 543 - For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
Page 142 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down ; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves : they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them : they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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