...essential part, for he had no faith in the Redeemer. The Apostle particularly notices it, when he says, " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." In Abel's offering, we seo a striking reference to the sacrifice which prefigured the Atonement, but...

...the state in which that heart is found by him. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted >" " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." In Abel, his sacrifice was symbolical of an inward faith and devotion to God, which led him to do well...

...respect,'' ver. 5. The reason of this preference is stated in the Epistle to the Hebrews, where we read, that " by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice* than Cain :" xi, 4. Now the offering of Cain, as well as that of Abel, was an obvious indication of such a general...

...principle. He is. essentially different from the unconverted. You see this difference in Abel and Cain. "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain ; Ly which he obtained witness that he was righteous ; God testifying of his gifts."f But Cain, through...

...and accepted that would take away sin ; and no one could have access to God but by sacrifice. We read that " by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous; God testifying of his gifts." " Cain brought of...

...Lord had respect unto Abel, andto his offering; but unto Cain, and his offering, he had no respect." " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." O how defective are the saint's duties in the eye of the law ! The believer himself espies many faults...

...sacrifice, or at least that this is the implied meaning, and that allusion is made to a preceding verse, " by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being...

...ascribes the entire difference to the possession or the non-possession of this efficacious principle. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous." And with respect to the general blessings comprehended...

...satisfaction for sin is required, " and without shedding of blood is no remission." He!), ix, 22. " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." Heb. xi, 4. Being offered in faith, sacrifices must have been commanded by the Lord; and their meaning...

...pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Ge. iv. 8. 7Whom I have chosen.] Thou speakest by which he obtained witness that btntiiflk eous, God testifying of bis gifts, and be being dead yet...