 | William Dealtry - 1827 - 700 pages
...honourable mention by St. Paul, that not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, they were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed...they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.* This is the character of all who, like them, are leading a life of faith ; for, adds St. Paul, they that... | |
 | Gerard Thomas Noel - Sermons - 1827 - 604 pages
...familiar. "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, they were persuaded of them and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." God had revealed to their view a distant scene of full and perfect happiness... | |
 | Edward Swaine - Jews - 1828 - 190 pages
...;" and, of him and others, it is said, " these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." Now what is the Apostle's inference ? why, clearly, that the promises referred... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...foundations, whose builder and maker is God — These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but. having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country. And... | |
 | Richard Warner - Sermons, English - 1828 - 476 pages
...hopes, and expectations, declared, " these all died in the 'faith, not having received the promises ; ' but having seen them afar off, and were ' persuaded...them, ' and confessed that they were strangers ' and pilgrims upon the earth ;"—Abraham, in this persuasion, looking "for a " city which hath foundations,... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1828 - 242 pages
...ABRAHAM. 106 BIB. XI. 13, 14, 15, 16. — These all died in faith, not having received the promises; but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...in embracing the promises; Heb. xi. 13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 9. There is contained in the nature of faith a sense of our own unworthiness;... | |
 | 1828 - 828 pages
...which: is by the sea-shore innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrim» on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Assize sermons - 1828 - 508 pages
...Hebrews, we have a catalogue of eminent saints, " who all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth; and now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly ;"f and there was... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1828 - 698 pages
...like-minded ; of whom we may exclaim, " these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." — Heb. xi. 13. This Society is at present honoured with the sanction of nine... | |
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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 
