For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
When God speaks to us by His word, He deals seriously with us, aiming to touch all our inmost thoughts and feelings; there is no part of our soul which ought not to be roused. The word works its full power only in the elect, when they are humbled by true knowledge of themselves and flee to Christ's grace; hypocrisy must be sifted out from its winding recesses, and we must be thoroughly wounded, not merely pricked, so that prostrate under a sense of death we learn to die to ourselves.
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Labour now to enter that rest, for this is the only way to it; those who will not work now shall not rest hereafter. The sleep of the labouring man is sweet, and labour now will make that rest more pleasant when it comes. Call upon one another to this diligence, for their lost and restless souls crying from torment call loudly upon us not to follow them into the same unbelief.
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Commenting on Hebrews 4:11-16
Christ is the Lord God omniscient; nothing escapes Him, no creature is hidden from His sight. He knows the openly profane and their secretly devised actions against Him; He knows formal professors and can distinguish profession from grace; He observes the true believer's persons, sins, weaknesses, graces, and wants. That this searching knowledge belongs to Christ is no small proof of His proper deity.
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