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2321 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1136.2 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation must be more excellent than the legal, he now comes to apply this doctrine both by way of exhortation and argument.
2322 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1136.6 (Matthew Henry)
… excellent dispensation of grace, a new covenant; the great charter-deed and instrument is settled and secured to all those who come into the bond of the covenant …
2323 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1136.8 (Matthew Henry)
… abiding dispensation.
2324 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1137.5 (Matthew Henry)
… each dispensation, upon whose satisfaction and intercession we profess to depend for pardon of sin, and acceptance with God. (3.) As Christ, the Messiah, anointed …
2325 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.3 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation; and, whatever was excellent in it, was the respect it had to Christ. Now, if this was their highest privilege, we are not inferior to them; for …
2326 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.4 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation of the gospel which they enjoyed, and that was their want of faith: The word preached did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith …
2327 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.19 (Matthew Henry)
… justice, dispensing death, the wages of sin, to all who were convened before it; but he has chosen to set up a throne of grace. A throne speaks authority, and bespeaks …
2328 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1139.25 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed to different persons. There are in the church babes and persons of full age ( Hebrews 5:12-5:14 ), and there are in the gospel milk and strong meat. Observe …
2329 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.1 (Matthew Henry)
… Levitical dispensation as the high esteem they had of their priesthood, and it was doubtless a sacred and most excellent institution; it was a very severe …
2330 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.4 (Matthew Henry)
… special dispensation and privilege to Abraham in the flesh, and who was known to Abraham by the name Melchisedec, which agrees very well to Christ, and to what …
2331 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , the dispensation could not be the same under another priesthood; a new priesthood must be under a new regulation, managed in another way, and by rules proper …
2332 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.11 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation is now set up, by which true believers may be made perfect. Now that there is such a change is obvious.
2333 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation of that covenant. The gospel dispensation is more full, free, perspicuous, spiritual, and efficacious, than that of the law. Christ is in this …
2334 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.1 (Matthew Henry)
… new dispensation or covenant for which Christ is the Mediator, Hebrews 8:6-8:13 .
2335 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.4 (Matthew Henry)
… two dispensations of the covenant of grace—that under the Old Testament and that under the New. Now observe,
2336 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.5 (Matthew Henry)
… old dispensation of the covenant of grace: of this it is said, 1. That it was made with the fathers of the Jewish nation at mount Sinai ( Hebrews 8:9 ), and Moses was …
2337 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.6 (Matthew Henry)
II. What is here said of the New-Testament dispensation, to prove the superior excellency of Christ’s ministry. It is said,
2338 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.7 (Matthew Henry)
… comfortable dispensation and discovery of the grace of God to sinners, bringing in holy light and liberty to the soul. It is without fault, well ordered in …
2339 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.13 (Matthew Henry)
… new dispensation there shall be such abundance of public qualified preachers of the gospel, and dispensers of ordinances statedly in the solemn assemblies …
2340 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.14 (Matthew Henry)
… new dispensation, and these are the articles of it; and therefore we have no reason to repine, but great reason to rejoice that the former dispensation is antiquated …