| Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 606 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 Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...of all who are walking iu the same way, 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. Brethren! it is the utmost wish of my heart, and my most earnest prayer, that... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 664 pages
...their way ? Was it by faith, or sight ? They advanced only on the ground of divine assurances; and they were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims upon earth. Do not, therefore, allow yourself even to wish for the by-path, which needs no... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...embracittg 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.... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 568 pages
...him to all others : Heb. xi. 13, &c. " These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but were persuaded of them, and 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... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 554 pages
...notice that " these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers," &c. — In these words the apostle seems to have a more particular respect to Abraham and {Sarah, and... | |
| Missions - 1820 - 190 pages
...by death, on the 4th of October, 1812. "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... | |
| Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...and that Rock was Christ.' 1 Cor. x. 4. 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... | |
| William Jones - Bible - 1821 - 398 pages
...finished. Therefore, it is truly said of them ; 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* The land of Canaan was not the object of their hope : it was only a sign and... | |
| John Fry - 1822 - 618 pages
...whose maker and builder 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 upon earth. For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country. And,... | |
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