Hebrews 3:13

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Ver. 13. But exhort one another ] A special preservative from apostasy. See my Common Place of Admonition, and my treatise onMalachi 3:17; Malachi 3:17 .

Lest any of you be hardened ] Continuance in sin hardeneth the heart, and gradually indisposeth it to the work of repentance. Qui non est hodie, &c. There is a deceitfulness in sin, a lie in vanity, John 2:8 . Doctor Preston relateth of one in Cambridge, that had committed a great sin, and had this temptation upon him, Do the act again, and your conscience will trouble you no more. He did it again, and then he grew a very sot indeed and went on in his wickedness.