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A20414 A short explanation, of the epistle of Paul to the Hebrewes. By David Dickson, preacher of Gods Word, at Irwin Dickson, David, 1583?-1663. 1635 (1635) STC 6824; ESTC S109679 160,093 348

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Vers. 3. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners agaynst Himselfe lest you bee wearied and faynt in your myndes HEE poyncteth foorth a speciall parte of His Suffering namelie The contradiction of sinners willing them to ponder this well for their Vpholde THEN 1. Nothing more forcible to discowrage a persecuted Christian than Contradiction A man will suffer much if hee knowe it bee for Trueth but if the Trueth for which hee suffereth bee called in question and Scrybes and Pharisees and chiefe Church-men shall contradict him and brangle his Fayth in the Trueth it is more paynfull than a Rack-stocke vnto him 2. The consideration of our LORD IESVS His beeing exercysed this way is a speciall Meane to guarde vs in such a Temptation 3. If wee be not armed agaynst Contradiction by certayne knowledge of the Trueth and Fayth in IESVS wee can not beare out but neede-force wearie vnder the Crosse and bee loosed or dissolved lyke water and fall by as the word importeth Vers. 4. Yee haue not yet resisted vnto blood stryving agaynst Sinne. THese Hebrewes were somewhat dashed and discowraged by the persecution which they had alreadie b●rne and were lyke to faynt Therefore hee setteth them on to prepare for suffering to the blood that everie suffering lesse no● that might bee the more tollerable in their eyes 1. Hee maketh their Partie Sinne. THEN 1. Christians must remember in their Troubles that they are tryed whether they will choose to sinne or to suffer 2. When they disobey their Persecuters they must not bee interpreted to be stryvers agaynst them so much as agaynst sinne 3. With what colour or p●e●ense so-ever sinne bee vrged vpon Christians they must not yeelde but resist in a Christian manner and fight Christianly agaynst that sinne wherevnto they are tempted 4. The more steadfastlie they resist they must prepare themselues for the more suffering and resolue at length to laye downe their blood in suffering No yeelding to sinne must bee whyle lyfe is in vs. 2. Hee maketh the greater Sufferinges which remayne a Reason to make them beare the present the better THEN 1. Suffering in a man's person is the highest degree of suffering 2. Resolution for the worst that can come maketh lesser troubles more comportable 3. Except a man prepare himselfe for the worst that can be done vnto him by man for the Trueth hee will faynt in lesser sufferings Vers. 5. And yee haue forgotten the Exhortation which speaketh vnto you as vnto Children My sonne despyse not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faynt when thou art rebuked of Him FRom the generall Doctrine of bearing Afflictions Prov. 3.11.12 he stirreth them vp to Christian patience in Persecution and everie other Trouble THEN Persecution for Righteousnesse commeth in the Account of Chastisement and is appoyncted amongst other endes to amende our Faults 1. Hee maketh these Hebrews the partie to whom the Proverbes were directed and GOD the speaker thereof THEN 1. Whosoever be the Pen-men of the Scripture it is GOD who speaketh in it 2. The Scriptures doe direct their speach to everie Age and Church and Person no les●e than to those who lived in the Church of olde when it was first written 2. Hee chargeth them for their forgetting of such a kindlie speach as is the styling of the Afflicted by the names of Sonnes THEN 1. The speciall poynct of Fayth which the LORD will haue fostered vnder the Crosse is the Fayth of our Adoption That wee never misstake our Father's Affection nor our Gracious estate by Calling for anie hard dealing wherewith possiblie wee may bee exercised 2. Hee will haue vs assured of our Adoption by GOD'S manner of speaking vnto vs as a Father to his Children 3. He showeth vs That the not-remembering of the Word of GOD speaking vnto vs according to our estate is the cause of faynting and of misstaking 3. The Exhortation dischargeth despysing of the Rodde and faynting vnder the Rodde THEN 1. These are the two evils which we are inclyned vnto Eyther to harden our selues agaynst Corrections and count light of them or else to be discowraged and casten downe by them Both of which we must eschew 2. Though the LORD both stryke and rebuke for sinne yet esteemeth He vs to be Sonnes not the lesse Vers. 6. For whom the Lord loveth Hee chasteneth and scourgeth everie sonne whom Hee receaveth HEe giveth a reason to confirme the afflicted in the certayntie of their Sonship TEACHING VS 1. That neyther Chastisement yea nor Scourging which is the sharpest measure of correction is a signe of Gods hatred but of His loue rather 2. That Gods dealing with al His Childrē in general being considered may mitigat the case of any of them in particular Vers. 7. If ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sonnes for what sonne is hee whom the father chasteneth not FRom this he vrgeth the patient bearing of Gods chastisements that they may know adoption the better THEN Though God be th' afflicted persons Father yet is he not perceaved to deale as a father but when th'affliction is patientlie borne and endured Vers. 8. But if yee bee without chastisement wherof all are partakers then are yee bastards and not sonnes ALbeit men desire naturallie to go free from trouble yet he showeth that this is not to be chosen And to this ende teacheth 1. That it is the common lot of all God's Children without exception to bee acquaynted with some Crosse and exercysed with some Correction of one kynde or other 2. That to bee exempted from the Crosse and common handeling of Gods Children is to be put out of the Roll of Children 3. That in the visible Church all are not free borne Children but some are Bastardes which the Church holdeth possiblie for Childrē but God reckoneth to be none 4. That amōg other marks this is one of a Bastard If God let him alone and suffer him without Discipline to follow his owne wayes Vers. 9 Farthermore we haue had fathers of our flesh which corrected vs we gaue them reverence shall wee not much rather be in subjection vnto the Father of spirits and liue FRom submitting to our Parents correction he vrgeth to beare the Lords correction Whence we learne 1. That as it is a part of the Parents duetie to correct their Children so it is a part of that reverence due to Parents that Children receaue their correction without change of affection towards their Parents 2. That God is the Father of Spirits in a speciall manner because they are immediatlie created by Him do not run in the materiall channell of fleshlie descent and because they haue a more neare resemblance vnto His Divine Nature 3. That receaving correction is counted subjection to God and refusing correction is refusing of subjection 4. That submission to chastisement is the way to Lyfe Vers. 10. For they verilie for a few days chastened vs after their own pleasure but Hee for our profit that we