...the most animating thought that can be conceived. As the Apostle says, Heb. xii. 1,2, " Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us ; looking unto Jesus, the captain and perfect...

...xii. 1, 2, 3. Wherefore, "seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us ; and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher...

...discipline we have received, and who long to applaud and congratulate us upon our victory, " let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us."* Let us throw off every impediment, as the competitors for the Olympic crown did, and that sin that would entangle...

...delight in mercy. " Seeing, therefore, that we are surrounded with such a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us ; and let us run with patience the race set before us ; looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher...

...strait gate ;" — should " work out their own salvation, with fear and trembling ;" — and " casting aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, should run with patience the race set before them." The apostles expected, not that the Christian should...

...pure. O God, make clean our hearts within us, and take not thy Holy Spirit from us. Enable us to lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us ; and to run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher...

...Pilgrims on earth, but they desired a better country, i is a heavenly. Hebrews xi. 13, 16. " Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, ana run i patience the race that is set before us. Hebrews xii. 1. the hardened and impenitent world,...

...patience under sufferings, they had placed before their eyes an example for imitation. " Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher...

...strait gate ;" — should "work out their own salvation, with fear and trembling ;" — and " casting aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, should run with patience the race set before them." The apostles expected, not that the Christian should...

...in Christ Jesus, he is what he is ; — yet conscious that, through grace strengthening him, he is laying aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset him ; — such a preacher must, according to the degree of his natural capacities, be " an eloquent...