Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 10:32

32 But o call to remembrance the former days, in which after ye were illuminated, ye indured a great fight o[illegible: 1 letter] afflictions .

In which they were convinced of the Truth of the Gospel, and received it in the love of it, and externally professed it, by being baptized into Christ, and by it made Members of his Church, ch. 6.4. and testified the Truth of their being Christs.

By their Sufferings for him with patience, and divine Fortitude, willingly, chearfully, variantly; ye have born, and overcome by bearing, preserving your Integrity, so as your Faith was immoveable, and strengthned you to endure the many, and most violent Assaults of the Devil and his Instruments, both within and without the Church, who thought to force them from the Faith, by the many Evils which they inflicted. If they were the enduring these at the first, how much more now, after so long a continuance in it? Rom. 8.18. 2 Cor. 1.6, 7, 8. 2 Tim. 1.8. 1 Pet. 5.9.

But, is not so much adversative as compulative, adding another Direction for their persevering in Christianity, even the revolving in their minds, and bringing again to thought what was past, carrying in it both the Act and the End of it. It is a practical Remembrance which bettereth them, while recollecting their own Days, and the time that was past;

Marginal references: Gal. 3.4.; Phil. 1.29. [illegible: 1 word]. 2.1.