 | Samuel Clarke - Sermons, English - 1730 - 434 pages
...thofe things which are behind : After the example of the Patriarchs, Heb. xi. 15. who truly if they bad been mindful of That Country from whence they came...have had opportunity to have returned; But now they defire a better Country, that is, an Heavenly. Where, if We alfo have our converfation Now, we (hall... | |
 | Bible - 1737 - 468 pages
...confefled that they were ftrangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that fey a -f- country. 15 And truly if they had been mindful of that country,...out, they might have had opportunity to have returned : 16 But now they defire a better country, that is an heavenly : wherefore God is not alhamed to be... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1757 - 482 pages
...the apoftle, this cannot be the country from whence they firft came, Ur of the Chaldces, ver. i5. " And " truly, if they had been mindful of that country " from whence they came out, they might have had " an opportunity of returning thither." And therefore he concludes, that the country which they fought... | |
 | Martin Madan - 1772 - 106 pages
...Things, declare plainly that they feek a Country.—And truly, if they had been mindful of that Couatry, from whence they came out, they might have had Opportunity to have returned.— But now they defire a better Country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not afhamed to be called their God... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that fay fuch things declare plainly that they feek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country...they might have had opportunity to have returned. 1 6 But now they defire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not afhamed to be... | |
 | Apologetics - 1800 - 458 pages
...(i) does argue very forcibly, " Tba"t they who fay fuch things, declare plainly, tint *' they feefc a country. And truly if they had been mindful of <«...had " opportunity to have 'returned : but now they ddire a better " country, that is, an heavenly." ' If the land of Canaan had bceri all their view,... | |
 | Apologetics - 1800 - 464 pages
...Apoftle (/) does argue very forcibly, " That they who fay fuch things, declare plainly, that " they feek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of "...country from whence they came out, they might have hard' 44 opporhiniiy to have returned: but now they defire a better rt country, that is, an heavenly."... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1801 - 374 pages
...ftrangers and pil" grims on the earth. For they, that fay " fuch things, declare plainly, that they " feek a country. And truly if they had. " been mindful of...had opportunity to have returned : but " now they defire a better country, that is, *' an heavenly6," Hence it appears, to adopt the language of the... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...in the world : Heb. xi. 14. — 16. " For they that fay fuch things, declare plainly that they feek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of...have had opportunity to have returned : But now they defire a better country, that is, an heavenly i wherefore God is not afhamed to be called their God... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...mindful of that country, from whence they cameout, they might have had opportunity to have returned : 1 6 But now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham, when effects of faith. he was tried, offered up Isaac : and he that had... | |
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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
