...Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. — Heb. iii. 12, 13. xii. 15. ii. 1. Let us therefore fear, lest a promise, being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it, &c. — Lest any man fall, &c.— Heb. iv. 1.11. ii. 1,2. Pass the time of your sojourning here in...

...islands."* * Isaiah xlii. 11, 12. SERMON VIII. ON COMING SHORT OF THE HEAVENLY REST. HEBREWS iv. 1. Let its therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. THE word of God is the storehouse of heavenly wisdom, and whoever desires to be " thoroughly furnished"...

...nothing;" to be "without spot and blameless;" to be resolute and persevering unto the day of Christ, " lest, a promise being left us of entering into his...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." For motives, I present you, on the one hand, with the best and the fairest recorded in the book of...

...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...entering into his 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...

...and yet shall a Christian say, it must not be preached to disciples as the word of Christ to them? " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it;" Heb. iv. 1. " By faith Noah being warned of God, of things not seen as yet (that is, of the deluge),...

...trembling : for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." Or, those, " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it V And do we not find a holy fear is to contribute all along to the whole of progressive sanctification...

...Matt. x. 28. Lukexii. 4, 5. " Blessed is he that feareth always." " Be not high minded, but fear." " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." " Let us have grace to serve God, with reverence and godly fear ; for our God, is a consuming fire."...

...to them that believed not ? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief . (Chap, iv.) LET us THEREFORE FEAR, lest a promise being left us...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For UNTO US WAS THE GOSPEL PREACHED, AS WELL AS UNTO THEM : but the word preached did not profit them,...

...jealousy over themselves. This indeed seems to be the language of Scripture with regard to us all: "Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left...rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Elsewhere says the same apostle, " And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence,...

...souls. AMEN. VOL. II.— 44 SERMON XXXI. TBK DANGER OF FORFEITING THE HEAVENLY REST. HEBREWS iv. 1. " Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us...rest. any of you should seem to come short of it." Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, says the apostle ; the volume...