...am to be faithful, I shall be faithful, whether I am faithful or not, and I will not be faithful?' " But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,...things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For if these things (the Christian virtues) be in you and abound, they make you neither barren nor...

...only harden your own hearts, and increase the guilt you have already contracted. " Let me however hope better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak." Yes, dearly Beloved, we will hope, respecting some of you at least, that we " have not bestowed upon...

...same by whom thou didst choose to be ruled, shall now torment thce.'1 Preaching on Hebrews vi. 9 ; — But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,...things that accompany salvation,' though we thus speak ; he said, in the close ; — Do these things. See sin to be the worst of evils, and depart from it....

...repentance ; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." " But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,...things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak." Let us, therefore, all use " the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end !" And may...

...productive of these fruits? If it operate not in this way, it is no better than the faith of devilsc. " But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,...things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak f." " But we desire that every one of you" make these things a subject of most earnest inquiry ; that...

...joy." This is the disposition which infallibly " accompanies salvation ;" as St. Paul has said : " Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and...things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed towards his...

...And what is the hope of the hypocrite, though she hath gained, when God taketh away her soul ?' ' But we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.' Yet, though in your case, the reality of godliness be indispensable, it is not sufficient. Every thing...

...Lord's will, and prepared not himself, shall be beaten with many stripes." But, beloved, we hope " better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak." Still let me caution you, my Christian brethren, against that listlessness of spirit, which is too...

...hopes ; and in the kindness of his heart towards them, his words breathe the sweetest consolation. " But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,...things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak." The Apostle Peter is equally strong in his language relative to a relapse, which evidently will bear...

...cause to address you in the far more grateful language of the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, "But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,...things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak." (Hebrews vi. 9.) We have craved this gift from the Lord, and He has hearkened to our prayer. Only then,...