...eafily may you fail to profit by the preaching of his minifters ! Why did the Jews fail of converfion ? The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith, with genuine operative faith, in them that heard it (e). Be not ye like unto them. If any doctrine...

...1. The inward means is faith, Heb. iv. 2. ' Unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them : but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.' This ordinarily requires an outward means to work it by. But being wrought, it is the great inward...

...to ourselves. Let us therefore fear-— To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. " Let us labour therefore to enter into " that rest, lest any man fall after the same ex" ample of unbelief." Heb. ii. 1 — 11. And again, " Now these things were our...

...provocations with them. For hereon doth the apostle ground his exhortation and caution, chap. iv. 11. " Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." For if the tenor of God's dealings with such unbelievers...

...those things were so. ( i) Heh. 4. 2. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them : hut the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. (~ k ) 2 Thess. 2. 10. And with all deceivahleness of unrighteousness, in them that perish ; hecause...

...the Apostle expressly assigns a want of efficacy in the word, to a want of faith in the hearers: *' The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it p ." And hence he uses it as an undeniable argument, to prove that the people had not obeyed the Gospel,...

...( i) Heb. 4. 2. For unto us w!.s tlie gospel preaehed, as well as unto them : but the word preaehed did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. fk) 2Thess. 2. 10. And with all deeeivableness of unrighteousness, in them that perish ; beeause they...

...obseure, but the meaning is, that sinee the rest pionsi»="Jo Abraham and his feed, aeeording :, ' 11 Let us labour, therefore, to enter .into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 12 For the word of God is quiek, and powerful, and sharper...

...Gospel" — the good tidings of a rest for the people of God — " preached, as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being...therefore, to enter into " that rest, lest any man fall from it, after the same example of unbelief."f "Let him," therefore, that thinketh he standeth,...

...prayers, and on these attainments they sit down " two-fold more the children of hell" than formerly. " The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." 41 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard :" Ministers " are workers together with God" in managing...