...refuge. Heb. vi. 18. " That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set before us." The heart must close with the new covenant by dependence upon it, and by love and desire. 2 Sam. xxiii....

...confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. But all this would be in vain, for any such purpose as the saints strong consolation, and their hope...

...confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.' Let faith therefore live upon the truth of God, and let us be strengthened, and rejoice therein. 4....

...much, I might love him much, and serve him wholly. Oh, that we all might ' have strong consolation who have fled for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set before us : which hope we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that...

...two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us." Let us then seriously ask, whether we have done this. Have we fled for refuge to Jesus Christ ? That...

...VIII. Luke xxiii. 33 — There they crucified him 122 1 . MEDITATION IX. Heb. vi. 18. — That we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us 124 MEDITATION X. Heb. x. 38. — If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him .., 125...

...by an oath ; that by two immutable " things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, " we might have a strong consolation, who have fled " for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set before " us a." O the goodness of God, who hath given his creatures the assurance of an oath ! O the infidelity...

...by an oath ; that by two immutable " things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, " we might have a strong consolation, who have fled " for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set before " us a." O the goodness of God, who hath given his creatures the assurance of an oath ! O the infidelity...

..." immutable things," that " God who cannot lie" is affording " a strong consolation" to those " who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us." Jesus takes up the same theme which constituted the subject of John's preaching, namely the doctrine...

...immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, -we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set before us." (Heb. vi. 13 — 18.)--— On this passage, we offer the two following remarks. 1. Here is explicit...