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93001 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.80 (Matthew Henry)
… is faith that gives us an interest in the promises; it is by faith that we have the comfort of the promises; and it is by faith that we are prepared to wait for the …
93002 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.81 (Matthew Henry)
… . (2.) Faith engages the power of God for his people, whenever it shall be for his glory, to overcome brute beasts and brutish men.
93003 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.82 (Matthew Henry)
… faith in God, refusing to worship the golden image, exposed them to the fiery furnace which Nebuchadnezzar had prepared for them, and their faith engaged …
93004 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.83 (Matthew Henry)
… pleases. Faith takes hold of that hand of God which has hold of the swords of men; and God has often suffered himself to be prevailed upon by the faith of his people …
93005 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.84 (Matthew Henry)
… their faith, all their interest and affairs revived and flourished. From bodily weakness; thus Hezekiah, believing the word of God, recovered out of a mortal …
93006 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.85 (Matthew Henry)
… his faithful servants. Believing and praying commanders, at the head of believing and praying armies, have been so owned and honoured of God that nothing …
93007 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.86 (Matthew Henry)
… in faith. (2.) Though the covenant of grace takes in the children of believers, yet it leaves them subject to natural death. (3.) Poor mothers are loth to resign up …
93008 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.87 (Matthew Henry)
… their faith; and such they endured through the power of the grace of faith: and which shall we most admire, the wickedness of human nature, that is capable of …
93009 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.88 (Matthew Henry)
… precious faith. This the apostle insists upon to render the faith more illustrious, and to provoke Christians to a holy jealousy and emulation; that they …
93010 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.1 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian faith and state, pressing home the argument, I. From a greater example than he had yet mentioned, and that is Christ himself, Hebrews 12:1-12:3. II. From …
93011 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful servants of God, that cloud of witnesses with which they are compassed about. It is set out by proper limits and directions; the mark they run to …
93012 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.7 (Matthew Henry)
… aside. Faith and patience are the conquering graces, and therefore must be always cultivated and kept in lively exercise.
93013 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.8 (Matthew Henry)
… our faith, Hebrews 12:2. Here observe,
93014 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.9 (Matthew Henry)
… our faith, he trusted in God; he is the purchaser of the Spirit of faith, the publisher of the rule of faith, the efficient cause of the grace of faith, and in all …
93015 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.14 (Matthew Henry)
… him. Faith and meditation will fetch in fresh supplies of strength, comfort, and courage; for he has assured them, if they suffer with him, they shall also reign …
93016 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.21 (Matthew Henry)
… with faith and patience. (3.) If they run into either of these extremes, it is a sign they have forgotten their heavenly Father’s advice and exhortation, which …
93017 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , and faith, and experience: No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of …
93018 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.26 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith, which corrects that of sense, and declares that a sanctified affliction produces the fruits of righteousness; these fruits are peaceable, and tend …
93019 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.36 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith are joined to the gospel church are joined to the angels, and shall at length be like them, and equal with them. (2.) To the general assembly and church of …
93020 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.39 (Matthew Henry)
… . As faith, so holy fear, is necessary to acceptable worship. [3.] It is only the grace of God that enables us to worship God in a right manner: nature cannot come up …