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HEREFORE, feeing we alfo are compaffed a let us lay afide every weight, and the fin which doth fo eafily befet us, and let us run with patience the race that is fet before us. 2. Looking unto Jefus the author [Or, beginner and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before, him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame, and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3. For confider him that endured fuch con tradiction of finners against himself, left ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4. Ye have not yet refifted unto blood, ftriving against fin. 5. And ye have forgotten the exhortation, which fpeaketh unto you, as unto children, My fon defpife not thou the chafning of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. 6. For whom the Lord loveth, he chaftneth, and fcourgeth every fon whom he receiveth. 7.

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et Phil. 2. 8, &c. † 1 Pet. I.

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ft Pfal. 110. 1. † Heb. 1. 3, 13. t Heb. 8. 1. See on Mat. 5 22. 44.

3. Mat. 27. 39, &c. They that paffed by reviled him, wagging their Heads, &c. Joh. 7. 12. Some faid he is a good Man: 0° 10 thers faid, Nay; but he deceiv eth the People. See on Mat. 9 34.

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h Gal. 6 9.-Let us not be weary in well-doing for in due feafon we fhall reap if we faint not

4. Heb.10.33, 34- Ye were made a Gazing stock, both by re proaches and afflictions.- Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your Goods, knowing in your felves that ye 20 have in Heaven a better and more enduring Substance.

5. tJob 5.17. † Prov. 3. 11. See on Cor. 11. 32.

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f ye endure chaftning, m God dealeth with you as with ons: for what fon is he whom the father chaftneth not? 3. But if ye be without chaftifement, n whereof all are artakers, then are ye baftards, and not fons. 9. Furhermore, we have had fathers of our flefh, which corected us, and we gave them reverence: fhall we not much ather be in fubjection unto the Father of spirits, and ive? 10. For they verily for a few days chaftned us after their own pleafure [Or, as feemed good, or, meet o them]; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11. Now no chaftning for the refent feemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, fterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness, into them which are exercised thereby, 12. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees.

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7. m Deut 8. 5. Thou fhalt alfo onfider in thine Heart, that as a an chaftneth his fon, fo the Lord by God chaftneth thee. Pfal. 94. 12. effed is the Man whom thou haftneth, O Lord, and teacheft him ut of thy Law. Prov. 13. 24. le that fpareth his Rod, hateth is Son: but he that loveth him, haftneth him betimes. See on Acts

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him, and heard his Supplication, and brought him again to Jerufalem into his Kingdom. Then Maneffeh knew that the Lord he was God. Pfal 119. 67,71. Before I was afflicted, I went aftray; but now have I kept thy Word. It is. good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy Sta10tutes. Prov. 29. 15. The Rod and Reproofgive Wisdom. Jer. 31. 18, 19. I have furely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chaftifed me, and I was chaftifed, as a Bullock unaccustomed to the Yoke: turn thou me, and I fhall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after that I was in20ftructed, I fmote upon my Thigh: I was afhamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the Reproach of my Youth.

8. n'† Pfal. 73. 14, 15. All the Day long have I been plagued, and haftned every Morning. If I fay I vill fpeak thus; behold I fhould 15 fend against the Generation of thy Children. † Pet. 5. 9. Whom efift ftedfaft in the Faith, know, ng that the fame Afflictions are accomplished in your Brethren that re in the World. See on Acts 14. 22.

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II. Jam. 3. 18. The Fruit of Righteoufnefs is fown in Peace of them that make Peace.,

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13. And " make* ftraight [Or, even] paths for your feet, left that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed. 14. Follow b with all men, and holinefs, without which no man fhall fee the Lord: 15. Looking diligently, left any man fail of [Or, fall from] the grace of God; left any root of bitterness fpringing up, trouble you, and thereby many be defiled: 16. Left there be any h fornicator, or profane perfon, as Efau, i who for one morfel of meat fold his birth-right. 17. For ye know how that afterward when he would have inherited the bleffing, he was rejected: for he found (1) no *place of repentance [Or, way to change his mind], though

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17. * Gen. 27.34, &c. When Efau heard the Words of his Father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and faid unto his Father, Blefs me, even me alfo, O my Father, &c.

Heb. 6. 6. [It is impoffible] if they fhall fall away, to re them again unto repentance: seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open fhame.

(1) Thefe Words may justly difcourage People from deferring their Repentance to a fick, or a Death bed; [not but that it is highly neceffary for thofe, who have been fo very inconfiderate and foolish, to do all that is poffible to be done under fuch Circumftances]. For whether they fhall repent at all, or whether their Repentance will be fuch as God will accept, must be acknowledged to be great Uncertainties. But here is nothing to difcourage any from fetting about a true Repentance imme diately; for how great foever their Sins have been, they are affured, that if they confefs, bewail, and forfake them, and bring forth Fruit worthy of Repentance, fuch Fruits as will be an evident Proof and Demonftration that their Minds are changed and renewed,and that their Repentance is true and fincere, God, for the fake of Jefus Chrift, will accept of them. The Apostle does not fay, that Efau never fo repented as to obtain For givenefs at the Hands of God, though it is plain from the Hiftory, that his Repentance was not fuch at this Time: What the Apoftle fays, is, that he could not by his Tears prevail with his Father Ifaac to Repent,

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he fought it carefully with tears.18. For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blacknefs, and darknefs, and tempeft, 19. And the found of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which voice they that heard, entreated that the word fhould not be spoken to them any more. 20. (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if fo much as a beaft touch the mountain, it fhall be ftoned, or thruft through with a dart. 21. And P fo terrible was the fight, that Mofes faid, I exceedingly fear and quake) 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23. To the general affem

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18. Exod. 19.12,18,19. Thou fhalt fet Bounds to the People round about, faying, Take heed to your felves, that ye go not up into the Mount, or touch the Border of it: Whofoever toucheth the Mount, fhall be furely put to death. And Mount Sinai was altogether on a Smoke, becaufe the Lord defcended upon it in fire: and the Smoke lo thereof afcended as the smoke of a Furnace, and the whole Mount quaked greatly. And when the Voice of the Trumpet founded long, and waxed louder and louder, Mofes 15 fpake, and God anfwered him by a Voice. Rom. 8. 15. Ye have not received the Spirit of Bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of Adoption. 2 Tim. 1. 20 7. God hath not given us the Spirit of Fear, but of Power, and of Love, and of a found Mind.

19. Exod. 20. 19. They faid unto Mofes, Speak thou with us, 25 and we will hear: but let not God fpeak with us leaft we die. † Deut. 5. 5, 25. I ftood between the Lord and you at that time, to fhew you for ye were afraid by reafon of the

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Fire, and went not up into the Mount. Now therefore why should we die? for this great Fire will confume us. If we hear the Voice of the Lord our God any more, then we fhall die. † Deut. 18. 16. Let me not hear again the Voice of the Lord my God; neither let me fee this great Fire any more, that I die not.

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20. Exod. 19.13. There fhall not an Hand touch it, but he fhall furely be ftoned or fhot through; whether it be Beaft or Man, it shall not live.

21. P Exod. 19. 16. It came to pafs on the third Day in the Morning, that there were Thunders, and Lightnings, and a thick Cloud upon the Mount, and the Voice of the Trumpet exceeding loud, fo that all the People that was in the Camp trembled.

22. Rev. 3. 12. † Rev. 21. 2, 10. See on Gal. 4. 26.

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Jude ver. 14. -Behold the Lord cometh with ten Thousands See on A&ts 7.

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that is, to recal the Bleffing he had given to his Brother Jacob. Mr. Kettlewell, in his Measures of Chriftian Obedience, is more Copious on this Subject. Book V. Chap. 7. P. 555

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bly, and church of the " first-born, which are a * written [Or, enrolled] in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the fpirits of just men, b made perfect, 24. And to Je fus the mediator of the new covenant [Or, teftament], and to the blood of fprinkling, that fpeaketh better things than that of Abel. 25. See that ye refufe not him that fpeaketh: For if they efcaped not who refused him that fpake on earth, much more fhall not we efcape, if we turn away from him that Speaketh from heaven:

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h Whofe voice then fhook the earth: but now he hath promifed, faying, Yet once more I fhake not the earth only, but alfo heaven. 27. And this word, Yet once more, fignifieth the removing of thofe things that are [Or, may be] fhaken, as of things that are made, that thofe things

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23. "Exod. 4. 22. -Thus faith the ord, Ifrael is my Son, even my fift-born. Jer. 2. 3. Ifrael was holinefs unto the Lord, and the firft-fruits of his Increafe Jer. I am a Father to Ifrael, and Ephraim is my first born. Eph. I. 12. That we fhould be to the Praife of his Glory, who first trufted in Chrift. Jam. 1. 18. Ofio his own Will begat he us with the Word of Truth, that we fhould be a kind of first-fruits of his Creatures. Rev. 14.4. Thefe were redeemed from among Men, being the 15 firft fruits unto God, and to the Lamb.

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25. † Heb. 2. 2, 3. If the Word fpoken by Angels was fted5faft, and every Tranfgreffion and Dif obedience received a juft Recompence of Reward; How fhall we escape, if we neglect fo great Salvation?

-† Heb. 3. 17. With whom was he grieved forty Years? was it not with them that had finned, Whofe Carcaffes fell in the Wildernefs? Heb. 10. 28, 29. He that defpifed Mofes Law, died without mercy, under two or three Witneffes Of how much forer Punishment fuppofe ye, fhall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under Foot the Son of God, and

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Heb. 8. 6. † Heb. 9. 15. See on 1 Tim. 2. 5.

d Exod. 24. 8. Mofes took the Blood and Sprinkled it on the Peo- 25 ple, and faid, Behold the Blood of the Covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all thefe Words. + Pet. 1. 2.- Through Sanctification of the Spirit, and 30 Sprinkling of the Blood of Jefus Chrift.

Heb. 10. 12. This Man, after he offered one Sacrifice for fins, for ever fat down at the right hand of God.

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27. † Pfal. 102. 26. Mat. 24. 35. 2 Pet. 3. 10. . † Rev. 21. 1. See on Luk. 16. 17.

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