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1861 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1136.2 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation are chiefly spiritual, but are on that account the more to be dreaded. Here is an appeal to the consciences of sinners. Even partial neglects …
1862 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1141.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation now set up, by which true believers may be made perfect. That there is such a change is plain. The law which made the Levitical priesthood, showed …
1863 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1144.3 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation, full and final pardon is to be had. This makes a vast difference between the new covenant and the old one. Under the old, sacrifices must …
1864 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1145.4 (Matthew Henry)
… afflicting dispensations?
1865 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1146.1 (Matthew Henry)
… Testament dispensation shown to be much more excellent than the Old. (18-29)
1866 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1146.4 (Matthew Henry)
… Mosaic dispensation was much in outward and earthly things. The gospel state is kind and condescending, suited to our weak frame. Under the gospel all may …
1867 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1162.7 (Matthew Henry)
… present dispensation, all things necessary to our knowledge of God in Christ, and their glory in the gospel. The apostle repeats the kind words, "little children …
1868 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1167.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation. But we may wish and pray that those who have prosperous souls, may have healthful bodies; that their grace may shine where there is still more …
1869 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1172.2 (Matthew Henry)
… Christ, dispensed according to the will and pleasure of Him who sits upon the throne. In the gospel church, the laver for purification is the blood of the Lord …
1870 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1176.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to dispense light, and kind influences to them. Where the gospel comes to a people, and has not proper effects on their hearts and lives, it is followed with dreadful …
1871 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1178.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his dispensations. A rainbow was upon his head; our Lord is always mindful of his covenant. His awful voice was echoed by seven thunders; solemn and terrible …
1872 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 5.6 (Matthew Henry)
… in dispensing his smiles and frowns.
1873 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 11.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , in dispensing his grace, does not go by seniority, but the younger sometimes gets the start of the elder in coming into the church; so the last shall be first …
1874 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 13.21 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation, Abram’s communion with God was kept up in the land of his pilgrimage.
1875 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.16 (Matthew Henry)
… various dispensations towards good people; we cannot conceive the projects of Providence, till the event shows them in all their mercy and glory. (2.) The great …
1876 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.21 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament dispensation, which was founded on that covenant, was a dispensation, [1.] Of 4c7f darkness and obscurity, 2 Corinthians 3:13, 3:14. [2.] Of dread and horror …
1877 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.32 (Matthew Henry)
Here is, I. The covenant ratified ( Genesis 15:17 ); the sign which Abram desired was given, at length, when the sun had gone down, so that it was dark; for that was a dark dispensation.
1878 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 17.4 (Matthew Henry)
… .) God dispenses his gifts variously, loading us with benefits, but not overloading us: some cross or other is appointed to be an alloy to great enjoyments. (2.) The …
1879 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 22.16 (Matthew Henry)
… external dispensation from all his mercies: those may be saved who are not thus honoured. However, we are sure it was not his temporal ruin. Though he was chased …
1880 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 26.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , in dispensing his blessings, does as Abraham did; common blessings he gives to the children of this world, as to the sons of the bond-woman, but covenant-blessings …