...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...of apostacy is also mentioned by the inspired writers, to guard Christians against sin,—" Let us fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." " Let us labour, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall, after the same example of "Unbelief."...

...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....

...lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." — " Let us fear lest a promise being left us of entering into...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." As becometh the disciples of a pacific Prince, let us " follow peace with all men, and holiness without...

...into my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief. Chap. iv. 1, Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Ver. 2, For unto us hath the Gospel been preached, as veil as to them, that is, we have the joyful...

...partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end." Heb. iv. 1. " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." '2 Pet. iii. 17. " Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also being...

...perseverance in faith : then all unbelievers are condemned ; surely not to Eternal Misery. iv. 1. " Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left...rest, any of you ^ should seem to come short of it. 2. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit...

...sufficient to carry one to heaven. Such would do well to consider Paul's exhortation to the Hebrews, " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...entering Into his rest, any of you should seem to come fhort of it." True it is, that the least degree of Grace will raise a soul to heaven ; but that ought...