Required reading
My summary
Today we read notes on Hebrews, James and 1 Peter.
Subjects include:
(i) God's rest;
(ii) true faith;
(iii) Christ as priest;
(iv) shadows and substance;
(v) the devils;
(vi) Christian hope;
(vii) Christ as a stone;
(viii) Christian living.
What grabbed me
I liked Edwards' comments on the difficult passage in Hebrews 6: '[299] Heb. vi. 4, 5, 6. If any think that the apostle here used expressions too high to denote any gifts of the Spirit common to good and bad men, though miraculous gifts, I answer, that the drift of the apostle, and his argument in those words, led him to set forth the greatness of the privilege that such persons had received, that he might the better show the exceeding aggravations of their apostacy, whence what the apostle says might be the more easily believed, viz. that it was impossible to renew them again to repentance. For it is certain that he intends the aggravatedness of their crime, as a reason of it, because he himself gives it as a reason of it, ver. 6. in those words, “Seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.”'
Some unbelievers are exceedingly privileged!
Next week's reading
Conclude Notes on the Bible in Vol 2 of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here).
Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.
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