...chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father' chasteneth not ? We have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us, and we gave 'them reverence : shall we not ihuch rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live ? For they verily for a few days...

...chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall...

...them not only consistent with, but evidences of his love: Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth; and if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons, Heb. xii. 6, 8, 11. The apostle does not here speak of afflictions as considered absolutely in themselves,...

...owe, is, patient submission to their just reproofs, design for their good. Thus the apostle says, " We have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us ; * and we gave them reverence,' Heb. xii. 9. (4.) They are to attend to, and comply with, their wholesome advice and instruction. Thus...

...declares " all that I love I rebuke and chasten, and scourge every son whom I receive ; and, if ye are without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons." Well (thought I) to be a bastard in God-s sight is to be at ease, to be put off with a portion in this...

...whom he re7. « ceiveth. If ye endure chasten" ing, God dealeth with you, as " with sons; for what son is he, " whom the father chasteneth not ? 8. " But...chastisement, " whereof all are partakers, then are Q. " ye bastards, and not sons. Fur" thermore, we have had fathers of " our flesh, which corrected...

...chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the fa" ther chasteneth not? But, if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. You have then no evidence that you are under education : you have no evidence that God is leading you...

...not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, than are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which...reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure...

...are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence : shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live ? for they verily, for a few days, chastened us after their pleasure...

...unawares, and imposed upon the disposers of those privileges by stealth. — Heb. xii. 8. " If ye are without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." Thus it is abundantly manifest, from the apostolical writings, how the visible church of Christ, through...