 | Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac," notwithstanding the promise, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called : "accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead." By faith, many a saint, now in heaven, has suffered the most cruel martyrdom. This supernatural faith... | |
 | Archibald Hall - Faith - 1831 - 472 pages
...received the promises offered up his only-begotten son, of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called ; accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead." Had the patriarch, on this trying occasion, conferred with sense, he must have become " weak in faith,"... | |
 | Edward Irving - Bible - 1831 - 510 pages
...received the promises offered up his only begotten son. Of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called : accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure." Job again, who, I think, with the most judicious interpreters,... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pages
...Moriah (Gen.xxii.): both of which events are put together, as types of the resurrection, Heb. xi. 19 : " Accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure." Isaac typifies the heir, the possessor of the land... | |
 | William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 542 pages
...seed be " called *." Trusting in the Divine power and veracity, he " accounted," says the Apostle, " that God was able to raise him up, " even from the dead":" and therefore shrunk not from the most painful duty he could be called upon to perform. A similar trust... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1832 - 556 pages
...received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called ; accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead ;from whence also he received him in a figure. JL HIS is one of the many instances, recounted by the... | |
 | 1832 - 378 pages
...his God. He, like his earthly ancestor faithful Abraham, who, in effect, offered up his beloved son, accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead; from whence also He received him in a figure, a typical representation of that promised seed, in which... | |
 | Manual - 1832 - 336 pages
...to life by a second miracle. St. Paul gives us to understand as much (Heb. xi. 19) when he says, " accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead." Abraham's faith, therefore, produced obe- 97. dience, and he hesitated not a moment to set about executing... | |
 | John Pearson - Apostles' Creed - 1832 - 652 pages
...yet lived, to shew that Christ should truly die, and truly live again. And Abraham offered him up, " accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, from whence also he received him in a figure." (Heb. xi. 19.) In Abraham's intention Isaac died, in... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thiuc tried, offered up Isaac, accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead. II,'. xi. 17- 19- Was not Abraham our lather justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son... | |
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By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said that, "in Isaac shall thy seed be called:" accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead;... 
