Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 3:14

14 For we are made partakers of Christ , if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end .

For, shews this to be a rational motive, urging home the former Counsel, unto which the following Condition doth agree; for we Believing Christians and Brethren are made [non-Latin text not transcribed], Partners with the Primitive Proprietor supposed in it, even Christ, who hath of his own the fulness of God, Life, Grace, Glory, and all good; in all which fulness of his we share, by virtue of our Union with him, Iohn 1.16. Ephes. 1.22, 23. Col. 1.19. and 2.9, 10. And he by his Spirit will free us from the deceitfulness of Sin, and hardning by it.

If by a Spiritual tenaciousness, and firm fixing in our hearts, we hold [non-Latin text not transcribed], either the principal or fundamental Truth, as the word signifieth in Sciences; or, the entrance or beginning of our Course, as used in things, so as the first step in Christianity is stiled a beginning of Grace.

[non-Latin text not transcribed], in personal relations is, a real subsistence, as of the Son in the Trinity, chap. 1.3. In things, the Basis and Foundation upholding others, and this in Christianity is Christ principally, who bears up his Church, Eph. 2.20, 21, 22. And Faith the Instrument, whereby we receive Christ, is so called, chap. 11.1. That which renders present and subsisting what is hoped for to the Soul; so that here it imports the retaining firm that Principle of Truth, upon which Christians are bottomed and supported to Life, that is, Christ himself, and the true Doctrine of him; as also, that we must firmly stand in the first beginnings of Faith, and encrease in them, so as they may be firmly fixed in our Hearts, and our Hearts on them, so as never to be removed as long as we live; our retaining firmly of this, makes us partners in Christ; both instrumentally helping in it, and evidentially; It being the infallible consequence of true Grace, holding us to this Communion with Christ. How ought these Conditions to quicken the activity of Believers.