Can someone please explain me Henry's comments on Matthew 19:17:" ....but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments"?<br><br>I think I'm a bit slow today, and maybe that explains why I'm confused by Henry's comments here. Not having a good night sleep will do that [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/laugh.gif" alt="laugh" title="laugh[/img].<br>The original is at :
http://www.ccel.org/h/henry/mhc2/MHC40019.HTM<br><blockquote><br>2.] The way prescribed is, keeping the commandments. Note, Keeping the commandments of God, according as they are revealed and made known to us,
is the only way to life and salvation; and sincerity herein is accepted through Christ as our gospel perfection, provision being made of pardon, upon repentance, wherein we come short. Through Christ we are delivered from the condemning power of the law, but the commanding power of it is lodged in the hand of the Mediator, and under that, in that hand, we still are under the law to Christ (1 Cor. ix. 21), under it as a rule, though not as a covenant.
Keeping the commandments includes faith in Jesus Christ, for that is the great commandment (1 John iii. 23), and it was one of the laws of Moses, that, when the great Prophet should be raised up, they should hear him. Observe, In order to our happiness here and for ever, it is not enough for us to know the commandments of God, but we must keep them, keep in them as our way, keep to them as our rule, keep them as our treasure, and with care, as the apple of our eye. </blockquote><br><br><br><br>Carlos
