by Robert Traill
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Recommended in Twenty-one Sermons on Hebrews 10: 20, 21, 23, 24.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that hath promised.
—And let us consider one another to provoke unto love, and to good works.
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail, 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.
HAVING insisted at so great length upon the first exhortation of the apostle, concerning drawing near to God, which is built upon the foundations of the Christian's privileges, that the apostle named, and that we have spoke of, from the 19th, 20th, and 21st verses; those exhortations that remain are deduced from the same foundation: wherefore I thought fit not to let them pass. The former exhortation was unto a duty with respect to God, drawing near to him, which the apostle requires to be performed in such a manner, that all Christians, and the best of them, must he learning to answer every day in their life, that they may come up more and more thereunto.
The other two exhortations are with respect to ourselves and others. The first is in the 23d verse, with respect to our own profession; the other, in the 24th verse, is with respect to our brethren and fellow Christians.
The first of these exhortations, which is contained in this 23d verse, plainly divides itself into the duty exhorted to, and the argument to enforce it. The duty is, Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering. The argument to this duty is a strong and a proper one, He is faithful that hath promised. Our faith should always be built on God's promise; it is not the right faith if it be not so; and our faith on the promise should answer the faithfulness of the promiser; the strength of our believing the promise, should bear some proportion to the great faithfulness of the maker of it. Now, it is evident, that the apostle's argument is both pertinent and strong; Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for God the promiser does not waver in what he has said.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sermon I - Hebrews 10:23
Sermon II - Hebrews 10:23
Sermon III - Hebrews 10:23
Sermon IV - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon V - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon VI - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon VII - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon VIII - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon IX - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon X - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon XI - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon XII - Hebrews 10:23b
Sermon XIII - Hebrews 10:24
Sermon XIV - Hebrews 10:20
Sermon XV - Hebrews 20:20
Sermon XVI - Hebrews 10:20
Sermon XVII - Hebrews 10:20
Sermon XVIII - Hebrews 10:21-22
Sermon XIX - Hebrews 10:21
Sermon XX - Hebrews 10:21
Sermon XXI - Hebrews 10:21