...ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious ? And in the Epistle to the Hebrews, xii. 18. Ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with...darkness, and tempest ; but ye are come unto mount Zion, and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels....

...God's majesty, though contemplating it in the mild light of the glorious gospel. " For," says he, " ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched,...fire; nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest; and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice, they that heard, entreated that the...

...fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God. Even on earth they belong to heaven, for they are come unto mount Sion, unto the. city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem ; and to an innumerable company of angels ; to the general assembly and church...

...this is set forth in the twelfth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in the following words : " Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched,...fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice they that heard, entreated that the...

...was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. But we are not come unto the mount that might be touched,...fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice, they that heard entreated that the...

...plead either for mercy, or cry aloud for vengeance. 2. Learn to value the Gospel. " Ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with...blackness, and darkness, and tempest. But ye are come to Mount Zion, and nnto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to Jesus the Mediator...

...contrasts, and, for the encouragement of believers in every age, pronounce with so much authority, that " we are not come unto the mount that might be touched...fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words: which voice they that heard intreated that the...

...which the heart may respond with gladness. To the self-condemned wretch it says, " You are not came to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with...fire; nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest; and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which voice, they that heard entreated that it...

...them realize that they had not come, like the warrior-Israelites of old, to the mount that might not be touched, and that burned •with fire ; nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest ; nor yet to garments rolled in blood, and the confused noise of the warrior. I would have had them...

...So in Hebrews xii. 18, the Apostle speaking to believers in the commission of Jesus : You, saith he, are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burneth with fire ; nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest. All these terrible things which...