...the Apostle observes the happy effect which the assurance of faith had on the minds of the believing Hebrews. " Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves, — the expression is remarkable, — that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." Yet,...

...believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance." "Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing...have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." "Jesus Christ, whom haying not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye...

...all upon the credit of them. That is a very considerable passage to this purpose in Heb. x. 34 ; " Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing...in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and more enduring substance." This " knowing in yourselves" is by inward and sensible experience, taste,...

...14th. — I spent some time with Sister Jones, and in the evening preached in Ebcne/.er Chapel, from, " Knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance : cast not away therefore your confidence, \vhi«?h liath great recompense of reward." The following...

...their goods ;" because they were supported by motives good and religious like the practice itself: " Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing...have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." A motive is that which hath power to moye, and a religious motive is that in religion which causeth...

...afflictions ; and partly, while ye panions of them used. 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing...have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. became cornthat...

...This xvas the practice of the faithful Hebrews, of whom the Apostle gives this honourable testimony, Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing...in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and enduring substance, Heb. x. 34. Christian souls, place before your eyes the example of the prophet...

...therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. — 2 Tim. ii. 3. Heb. xii. 5. For ye, &c. took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven, &c. — Heb. x. 34. Moses choosing rather to suffer, &e. esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches...

...therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. — 2 Tiin. ii. 3. Heb. xii. 5. For ye, &c. took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven, &c. — Heb. x. 34. Moses choosing rather to suffer, &c. esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches...

...whilst ye became companions of them that were sO used : for ye had compassion of me in my bonds, ftnd took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have m heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath...