 | Samuel Whitman - 1814 - Страниц: 390
...apostle gives the same turn to another divine promise. Speaking of the pious patriarchs, "If," says he, "they had been mindful of that country from whence...called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." What more then do we find required in the covenant of grace, than we find required and promised... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - Страниц: 640
...favours on his faithful friends and servants. Whenever he distributes favours, he gives like a God. " But now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city" (Heb. xi. 16)—'" a continuing city" — " a city which hath foundations" — " a kingdom which... | |
 | Archibald Bonar - 1815 - Страниц: 534
...XII. HEAVEN PREPARED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS. HUB. xi. 16. But now they desire a better country, that zV, an heavenly: "wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them cf city. THE change of his views and pursuits which every sincere lover of the Saviour experiences,... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - Страниц: 606
...that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful...returned. But now they desire a better country, that (2) Gen. xxxv. 22. (a) Gen. xxx*iii. 13—18. (4) Gen. xlii. (r) Gen. xlvii. 9is, an heavenly; wherefore... | |
 | Moses Lowman - 1816 - Страниц: 428
...seek a country, says the Apostle, and this country he well understands of an heaven16. ly country ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. When God appeared to Moses, and sent him to deliver the children of Israel out of the bondage... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1816 - Страниц: 482
...piN ** grims upon earth. For they that say " such things declare plainly that they " seek a country, a better country; that " is, an heavenly ; wherefore...called their God, for " he hath prepared for them a city." Heb. xi. 13. The Apostle having thus proved, by an induction of particulars, that true religion... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - Страниц: 602
...their habits — entered into their spirit — and found how timely it was said of the faithful, that if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came, they might have had opportunity to have returned. I was received, caressed, and I may say, that I had... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - Страниц: 568
...they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful...they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly." — The respect which a godly person hath to heaven may be compared to the respect which a child, when... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - Страниц: 636
...himself to make them happy after this life, according to what the author to the Hebrews observes, " wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city," Ileb. xi. Iti. This way of arguing was of great force againtt the Sadducees, who denied the... | |
 | 1817 - Страниц: 842
...whence they came out, they might hâve had opportunity to hâve returned : 16 But now they désire a better country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be <al ici! their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham, whenhe was tried. ofl'ered... | |
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And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath... 
