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2 Thessalonians: Chapter 3, Verse 6
“Now we command you, brethren, &c.” The apostle is now come to the main thing itself he has in view in this part of the epistle, which is to encourage a regard to the discipline of God's house; and to exhort this church to excommunicate, or remove from communion, all disorderly persons; and those who are to do this he…
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Chapter 6—On Baptism, Answering The Charge Of Vain Argumentation
Mr. Bridgman: "The preacher made long and tedious quotations concerning the building of Noah's ark, the tabernacle, and the temple, and to prove what? that which every godly Pseudo-Baptist acknowledges equally with himself—that God's commands, when plainly given, are to be by his servants implicitly obeyed—no Christian denies this." My Reply: 1. Quotations certainly were made from Gen. 6. Ex.…
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Book 2: Chapter 7, The Law Given, Not To Retain A People For Itself, But To Keep Alive The Hope Of Salvation In Christ Until His Advent
The divisions of this chapter are, I. The Moral and Ceremonial Law a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, sec. 1, 2. II. This true of the Moral Law, especially its conditional promises. These given for the best reasons. In what respect the observance of the Moral Law is said to be impossible, sec. 3–5. III. Of the threefold office…
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March 9—Morning Devotion
"But now in Christ Jesus, ye, who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ."—Ephesians 2:13 Of all the vast alterations made upon our nature by grace, that which is from death to life seems to be the greatest. I do not think the change would be as great, if Jesus were to make a child…
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157 Scribe
SCRIBE This word has different significations in Scripture. 1. A clerk, or writer, or secretary, 2 Sam. 8:17.-- 2. A commissary, or muster-master of the army, 2 Chron. 24:11, 2 Kings, 25:19.--3. A man of learning, a doctor of the law, 1 Chron. 27:32.
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2 Thessalonians: Chapter 3, Verse 5
“And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, &c.” By which may be meant either the love with which God is loved. This is the sum and substance of the first and chief commandment in the law, and is what every man in a state of nature is destitute of; it is implanted in the heart in…
