Ch. 4. R,efi to come, Hebrews. Mat it is. Ch. 4 is not fate for doubtingPerlons to lay their Sal- g. There remaineth thereforea reft vation on fuch a Controveríie, Yjrecíally when to the people of God. it tendeth to abate necetary Fear. The Fa. g, The great Sabbatifin or Rea then promi- thers of the fiat four hundred years thought, fed to the People ofGod, is yet to come. that Come beginnings of Jutifying Faith were Note ; This Sabbatifmor Reif, no doubt, is lofeable, as ,Adams Innocency was. And Cal- All the Late of the Churches deliverance and vin faith, Semen gnalecunque fidei perditter. felicity by Chrift Incarnateand Glorified,which 2. For unto us was the gofpel prea- in the Fir c.fruits is all the Grace whichhe gi. ched, as well as unto them ; but the veth us onEarth, but in the proper, full per- word preached did not profit them; formance it is the Late ofGlory. I have before Paid why I affent not to not beingmixed with faith in them Dr. Hammond, who makcth it to be the deli- that heard it. veranee of Chriftians fiord Perfecuticn, and 2. They heard God's Word, and fo do we : enjoying peaceable Affemblies by the Detre- but it did not profit and fave them, becaufe c` lion of 'Jerkfalem, as if this were the main they received it not by a found, confirmed, Sesee of theText, r. How little a thing was prafticalBelief. that in comparison ofSaving Grace andGlory 3. For we which have believed do a Mot of the Chritians to whom Paul wrote, enter into reft, as he faid, As I have were to die before that, and fot not to fee and fworn in my wrath, if they Mall enter enjoy ir. a. The yl'it. s themselves were riot to Ihn it and enjoy it. q. Chritiahitycori into ,my tell : although the works tinned, after that, a perfecuted hated thing un- were fini(bed from the foundation of der the Heathen, till above three hundred the world. years, till Conftanrinés time, tho' with inter- 3. There is a Rea promifed to us Believers, mrffiens between the tenPerfeeutions. as well as the typical Ref} was to the tfrselires, tudes more were martyrd by the Heathens and the Seventh day feparated for a Sabbath than by the ho were in Servitude them, from -the Creation, . which fignified our better (elves, s, And ifany apply it indeed the' time áf- Ret. ter Con.frantire, the mercy was unfpeak- 4> 5 For he fpake in a certainplace able , but thofe that were here written to,were not to fee it : And the Veice that is reported of the feventh day on this wife, And to fay,Hodii venenumfandirur iuEcclegant, bath God did refs the feventh day from all by experience been fo fa- credited, that we his works. And in this place again, muff not prefer the Prelatical Grandure and reft. which Shortly was set up, before the If they thatl enter into my tides the better Ret of Saints; while we think how 4, S The Text tells us, that be Sabbath-Rot, there was another tt romifed. much Peaceable (which the Dotfor P calls that Ret1) through a urea part of the 6. Seeing therefore it remaineth Chriftian World, have been Mildred and per. that force muff enter therein, and they f:cured byViolence, Inquifitions, Prifons,aed to whom it was first preached entred the Blood of many hundred Canons, more than the joyskilled, by the and Exe- not in becaufe of unbelief: 7. Again curious of Papal Greatness, and for its Trite- he limited a certain day, Paying in Da- reif. vid, To day, after Co long a time : as And it is incredible that to the uffering it is faid, To day if ye twill hear his Believers of that Abe, the Holy Gbot corn. voice, hardennot your hearts. 8. For boring themwith this gear omìly a the y báxifm ör Ret, fhould r.ot principally mean the if Jefus had given them reff, then great and glorious final Ref. would he not afterward have fpoken I O. For he that is entred into his ofanother day. refs, he alfo,háth ceased from his own 6, 7, 8. It is plain then that fonte mutt ter works, as God did from his. into Reif; and Unbelief kept out them to to. For as God is faid to ref} and fandifie whom htir asthen preached ; a fdtD David, a ong theSabbath,when he ended his fix dayswork ; after their further entrance, which he would fo ourSabbatifin or Ret tent be a ceafistg from for have done, bringing he ould our own Works, that is, r. from Sin, 2. from thofe WildernefsLabours, or troublefom means Canaan had been t e full obtainment of the (a borrow, fear, confidl, &e.) which are Short promifed Reif, it followeth, that more than ofthe End. And, 3. from Suffering. that was promised Nate ; This Verne Skews, that it is the Hea- venly Reif, with the beginningof it ty I-Ioli-. "eft,
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