| Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 634 pages
...incarnation ; ' And these all having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be perfect.' Hither also they referred that of the Psalmist, ' Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1831 - 634 pages
...incarnation ; ' And these all having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be perfect.' Hither also they referred that of the Psalmist, ' Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be... | |
| William Mathers - Political science - 1831 - 214 pages
...city. — 89. 40. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 8. And the four beasts (living creatures) had each of them six wings about him; and they... | |
| Edward Irving - Bible - 1831 - 470 pages
...xi. 39, 40, « And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise : God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." And in the enumeration of the heavenly company in the following chapter of the Hebrews,... | |
| 1832 - 488 pages
...obtained a good report [or rather " having borne witness*] through " faith, received not the promise ; " God having provided some better " thing for us, that they without us " should not be made perfect." k This proves, that, whether the enjoyment of the promise is to be on earth or in heaven,... | |
| Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1831 - 458 pages
...apostle — " And these all having obtained a good report, through faith, received not the promise, Bot be made perfect ;" which " better thing,'' whether it mean the personal appearance of the Messiah,... | |
| Matthew Henry - Prayer - 1832 - 240 pages
...things which the angels themselves desire to look into i. And especially we bless thee, that thou hast provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect «. (6.) For the wonderful and mysterious incarnation of the Son of God, and his coming... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - Sabbath - 1832 - 322 pages
...chap. xi. 39, 40, " These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise ; God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect ;" he speaks of the dispensation of higher and more abundant privilege which was to succeed... | |
| Edward Hawkins - Bible - 1833 - 234 pages
...it is • true, that " having obtained a good report through faith, they received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect p ." III. But all this accumulated treasure, whether of gracious instances of divine truth,... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1833 - 574 pages
...Heb. xi. 39, 40. These all, having obtained a good report, through faith, received not the promise ; God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. WHEN we hear or read of the saints of old, we excuse our want of resemblance to them,... | |
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