| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...and for ever." Heb. 13:8. To the same sense are those words, Heb. 1 1 : 40, rightly paraphrased ; " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." As if the apostle had said, " God hath appointed the accomplishment of the promise of... | |
| George Bennet - Intermediate state - 1800 - 442 pages
...at that time will I cause the branch of righteousness to growup ..unto David." Jer. xxxiii. 14. . " God having provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect." Heb. xi. 40. Under the image of the small intercourse which the Jerusalem on earth had... | |
| Francis Randolph - Advent sermons - 1800 - 256 pages
...this dired assurance — All having obtained a good report through faith, received not the pro. raise, GOD having provided some better thing for us, that they without us might not be made perfect ; that is, they relied on the promise, but this promise was given only in,... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...earth. 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 4-0 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. CHAP. XII. DIVERS EXHORTATIONS. WHEREFORE, seeing we also are compassed about with so... | |
| Herman Witsius - Antinomianism - 1807 - 360 pages
...attend to the grace of this life, according to its extent, its degree, and other circumstances, God provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect, Heb. xi. 40. .U. It is II. Nevertheless, since the saving grace of unjustly M- (^ist... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...is saving faith that is there spoken of, as appears by the last verses of the foregoing chapter : " And these all, having obtained a good report through...thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect." Mark i. 15. " Saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand : Repent... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...is saving faith that is there spoken of, as appears by the last verses of the foregoing chapter : " And these all, having obtained a good report through...thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect." Mark i. 15. " Saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand : Repent... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1808 - 326 pages
...in which he enumerates the saints, whose virtues have formed the leading subject of this discourse. These all, having obtained a good report through faith,...thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect. What is implied in their not having received the promise ? Does it mean that they did... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...presence of that (now exhibited) Saviour, in whom all the promises of God are Yea and Amen : XI. 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they 'without us should not be made perfect. God having provided for us, in these latter times, better things, even the manifestation... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 pages
...and who has made all those shadows flee away, and nothing but a solid substance is left for us. -' God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." He is the fulfilling end of the moral law; by whom it was magnified and made honourable;... | |
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