...proposed. In the first verse he laid it down in those words, "Let us fear, lest a promiee being left of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it;" here he declares, how that fear is to be improved and exercised: to believe, is to enter into the rest...

...proposed. In the first verse he laid it down in those words, "Let us fear, lest a promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it;" here he declares, how that fear is to be improved and exercised: to believe, is to enter into the rest...

...way ; must so run, and continue 'to run, that he may obtain the prize. Indeed there is much need to fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to come short of it. Too many there have been, and still are, who make shipwreck of...

...departing from the living God. Lest any of .you be hardened, through the deccitfulness of sin.' | ' Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.' |j ' We ought to give the more earnest heed to (lie...

...brethren, will furnish a striking illustration of this subject. Thus the man of Tarsus expresses himself, " Let us therefore, fear, lest, a promise being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall...

...saints, he shut them out among his enemies ; not because they went so far, but for not going farther. " Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Oh what a pity that so many who are moral, agreeable in their manner, conscientious, attentive to forms,...

...salvation : " Blessed is the man that feareth ahvay:" " He that trusteth his own heart, is a fool." " Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Bring the grounds and reasons of your hope to the infallible touchstone: " prove your ownselves." Fear,...

...Macknight. The common translation. " Let us therefore fear, " lest a promise being left us of entermg into his rest, " any of you should seem to come short of it." The literal translation. " Wherefore, let us be " afraid, lest a promise of entrance into his rest...

...it lies not in any past attainments, hut in enduring to the end. Hence, the same apostle exhorts, " Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." And it must be kept in view, that exhortations of this nature were not addressed merely to such believers,...

...well-doing. No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is lit for the kingdom of God. Let us fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into...rest, any of you should seem, to come short of it. J!f loved, beware lest ye also, being led away virh ?he error of the wicked, fall from jour own steadfastness....