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30 For we know him that hath said, ¶ Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

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31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, " after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions ;15

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33 Partly, whilst ye were made a " gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became * companions of them that were so used.

34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, 16 and took joyfully the spoiling of your 14 judge for. Pu. 15 much contest of sufferings. Pu.

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And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. EPH. iv. 30: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

9 See on ROM. xii. 19.

DEUT. xxxii. 36: The LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants. Ps. 1. 4: He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. do. cxxxv. 14: For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

See on 2 COR. v. 11.

* See on GAL. iii. 4.

" HEB. vi. 4: It is impossible for those who were once enlightened.

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1 COR. iv. 9: We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

* 1 THES. ii. 14: For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judæa are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews. See on PHI. i. 7.

y See on ACTs, ix. 16. ? See on ACTs, v. 41.

goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have 17 "in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, dye might receive the promise.

37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

38 Now the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of them h who draw back

17 knowing that ye have in yourselves, or for yourselves. A. V.

MAT. xix. 21: If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. See on MAT. vi. 20.

MAT. v. 12: Rejoice, and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven. do. x. 32: Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. HEB. xi. 6, 26: [God] is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him-[Moses] had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

CGAL. vi. 9: And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. See on ROM. xii. 12. d HEB. ix. 15. COL. iii. 24: Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the Lord Christ. I PET. i. 9: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

e See on 1 COR. vii. 29.

f HAB. ii. 3, 4: The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

* See on ROM. i. 17.

h Ver. 26. 2 PET. ii. 20, 21: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

CHAP. XI.

1 What faith is: 6 without faith we cannot please God: 7 the worthy fruits thereof in the fathers of old time.

NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence 2 of things not seen.

2 For by it the elders 3 obtained a good report.

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3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

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4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testify

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I confident expectation. Ham. Dod, assurance. Wh. ground, or confidence. A. V. 2 certainty. Co. Ma. Cr. proof. Pu. ancients. Br.

i Acts, xvi. 30, 31: And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. I THES. v. 9: God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 THES. ii. 14: Whereunto he called you by our Gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. HEB. vi. 9: Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

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CHAP. XI.

2 COR. iv. 18: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. See on JOHN, XX. 29.

b Ver. 39.

See on JOHN, i. 2, 3.

d GEN. iv. 4, 5: Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

LEV. ix. 24: There came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their

ing of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet *paketh.

5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

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6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,' and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of

* is yet spoken of. 4. V. that God is. Co. Ma Cr. Bi. that he exists, Pu.

faces. (The like testimony of God's acceptance we read of, JUDGES, vi. 21; 1 KINGS, xviii. 38; 1 CHR. xxi. 26; 2 CHR. vii. 1.)

GEN. iv. 10: The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. MAT. xxiii. 35: From the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias. HEB. xii. 24: To the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 1 Jonn, iii. 12: Wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

*GEN. v. 24: Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. WISD. iv. 10: He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living amongst sinners he was translated. EccLUs, xliv. 16: Enoch pleased the LORD, and was translated, being an example of repentance to all genera. tions, do, xlix. 14: Upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was taken from the earth.

* DEUT. iv. 29: If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Zsc. viii. 21: The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go Also, H. vii. 20: He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. do. x. 22, 35: Let us draw true heart in full assurance of faith. Cast not away the refine your confidence.

OKNAK, 13, 14, 22: God said unto Noah. The end of all foch i come before me for the earth is filled with violence Breng theme and, bebold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make the an ack of goyder wood. This did Noah: accord

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things not seen as yet, moved with fear," prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the 'righteousness which is by faith.

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8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, " dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

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10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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ing to all that God commanded him, so did he. ECCLUS. xliv. 17 Noah was found perfect and righteous in time of wrath-therefore was he left as a remnant unto the earth, when the flood came. 2 PET. ii. 5: [God] spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. 1 PET. iii. 20: When once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing.

See on ROM. i. 17.

m See on Acтs, vii. 2-4.

n GEN. xii. 8: And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. do. xiii. 3, 18: And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. do. xviii. 1, 9: And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre : and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

• HEB. vi. 17: Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath.

P HEB. xii. 22. See on GAL. iv. 26.

HEB. iii. 4: He that built all things is God.

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