Esau Denied Repentance - John Brown of Haddington - Christian Audio Books SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/stack45ny After subscribing, click on NOTIFICATION BELL to be notified of new uploads. SUPPORT CHANNEL: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=RB72ANM8DJL2S&lc=US&item_name=stack45ny¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted Follow me on no-censorship GAB: https://gab.ai/RichNY Follow me on https://www.minds.com/RichNY Battle for God and His Truth: http://battleforgodstruth.tumblr.com/ My WordPress blog: https://sermonsandsongsdotorg.com/ http://www.puritanaudiobooks.net/ From John Brown’s Commentary on Hebrews ” 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.” "Though the perseverance of the saints is certain, let us never forget that it is the perseverance of saints that is thus certain. Many who seem to others to be saints, who seem to themselves to be saints, do 'fall away.' And let us recollect that the perseverance of the saints referred to is their perseverance not only in a safe state but in a holy course of disposition and conduct ; and no saint behaving like a sinner can legitimately enjoy the comfort which the doctrine of perseverance is fitted and intended to communicate to every saint, acting like a saint,'in a patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, honor, and immortality.'" John Brown of Haddington (1722 – 19 June 1787), was a Scottish divine and author. His works include "The Self-Interpreting Bible," "The Dictionary of the Bible," and "A General History of the Christian Church." John Brown was born at Carpow in the parish of Abernethy, in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of a self-educated weaver and river-fisherman, also called John Brown. His own formal education was scanty, and after both of his parents died when he was about 12, he became a shepherd. He experienced a Christian conversion. Brown taught himself Greek, Latin and Hebrew by comparing texts and scripts. In 1738, after hearing that the Greek New Testament was available in a bookshop, he left his sheep with a friend and walked 24 miles to St Andrews to buy a copy. There Francis Pringle, a professor of Greek, challenged him to read it, saying that he would buy it for him if he could do so; Brown succeeded. His learning led to controversy among the members of the Secession Church to which he belonged, as some asserted that he got his learning from the devil. His contacts with three famous contemporaries have been documented: In 1771 Brown began a long correspondence with Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. which encouraged them mutually in their Christian endeavour. In 1772 Brown was walking in Haddington Cemetery when he met Robert Fergusson, the poet, in a dark mood. The philosopher David Hume commented that Brown preached "as if he were conscious that Christ was at his elbow". Brown died at his home in Haddington on 19 June 1787, after months of stomach problems. John Brown wrote numerous books, of which the most notable are described here. Only one dictionary of the Bible (by Thomas Wilson (1563–1622)), by then long out of print, had preceded Brown's The Dictionary of the Bible. It therefore met a need and after the initial edition published in 1769 numerous editions, variously amended, were issued until 1868. It expressed a Calvinist theology, and in it, the author estimated that 2016 would see the Millennium. Many articles in it are long and appear to be tracts or sermons. A General History of the Christian Church was issued in two volumes in 1771. The Self Interpreting Bible was Brown's most significant work, and it remained in print (edited by others), until well into the twentieth century. The objective of providing a commentary for ordinary people was very successful. The idea that the Bible was "self-interpreting" involved copious marginal references, especially comparing one scriptural statement with another. Brown also provided a substantial introduction to the Bible, and added an explication and "reflections" for each chapter. A measure of its popularity is that it was translated into Welsh, and its appearance in Robert Burns's "Epistle to James Tennant", My shins, my lane, I sit here roastin' Perusing Bunyan, Brown and Boston, Some of his original manuscripts are held by East Lothian Council Archives.