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2301 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1108.20 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation. It is also a great privilege and encouragement to us to consider him as our Father, as one so nearly related and who bears so tender an …
2302 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1109.15 (Matthew Henry)
… to dispense to us: Of his fulness we receive, and grace for grace, grace in us answering to that grace which is in him ( John 1:16 ), and he fills all in all, Ephesians …
2303 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1109.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation of God which was given to him ( Colossians 1:25 ), the economy or wise disposition of things in the house of God. He was steward and master-builder …
2304 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1109.27 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament dispensation. They were in a state of minority, and training up for a more perfect state of things, and could not look to the end of those things which …
2305 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1110.12 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian dispensation. It is made without hands; not by the power of any creature, but by the power of the blessed Spirit of God. We are born of the Spirit, John …
2306 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.3 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian dispensation, for these are called the latter days; in the following ages of the church, for the mystery of iniquity now began to work. Some shall …
2307 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.5 (Matthew Henry)
… to dispense with oaths for the good of the catholic cause, could never maintain that no faith is to be kept with heretics, could never divest themselves of …
2308 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.9 (Matthew Henry)
… former dispensation, and the happiness of that world, the certain recompence of our obedience by faith: we all with open face, as in a glass, behold the glory …
2309 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1130.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ; a dispensation is committed to them. It is not their own notions and fancies that they are to preach, but the pure plain word of God; and they must not corrupt …
2310 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , to dispense Christ’s ordinances, and to feed the church of God, over which the Holy Ghost has made them overseers. Observe, 1. A church without a fixed and standing …
2311 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.16 (Matthew Henry)
… and dispense to them things needful, there is great reason that their character should be clear and good, that they should be blameless. How else could it be …
2312 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.29 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian dispensation in the Titus 1:15, 1:16. To good Christians that are sound in the faith and thereby purified all things are pure. Meats and drinks, and …
2313 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation of the grace of God, so the gospel is called, Ephesians 3:2. It is grace in respect of the spring of it—the free favour and good-will of God, not any …
2314 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.21 (Matthew Henry)
3. It hath appeared, or shone out more clearly and illustriously than ever before. The old dispensation was comparatively dark and shadowy; this is a clear and shining light; and, as it is now more bright, so more diffused and extensive also. For,
2315 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.14 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of grace we remain void of grace. Be filled with the Spirit, says the apostle; it is duty as well as privilege, because of the means which God in …
2316 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.1 (Matthew Henry)
… legal dispensation; and the excellency of the gospel above that of the law is asserted and proved, Hebrews 1:1-1:3. II. Between the glory of Christ and that of the …
2317 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.2 (Matthew Henry)
… these dispensations were of God, and both of them very good, but there is a great difference in the way of their coming from God. Observe,
2318 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.3 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation. God favoured and honoured them with much clearer light than that of nature, under which the rest of the world were left. 3. The order in which …
2319 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.4 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament dispensation, these last days as they are called, that is, either towards the end of the world, or the end of the Jewish state. The times of the gospel …
2320 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , the dispensations of the gospel must therefore exceed, very far exceed, the dispensation of the law.