 | Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley - Presbyterian Church - 1811 - 498 pages
...many ages ago ; but Si. Paul tells us, whose privilege it was to live in gospel-day, that God fiat provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Heb xi. 13, 40 : for us he hath provided the clear revelation ot the gospel ; and shall... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 506 pages
...you; Elishafrom the plough, Dqvid from the ewes and lambs, and Amos from the herds. Surely God has provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. They saw things at a distance, and predicted what should come to pass; but we see them... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 600 pages
...they *aw and heard the things wliich kings, wise men, and prophets desired to see, and saw them not; "God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect," chap, xi, 40. Herein is God glorified; herein doth the honor and glory of Christ as... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 596 pages
...privilege which God had reserved for that church which was to be erected immediately by his Son. God had "provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect," Heb. xi, 40. Neither themselves nor any thing that befell them, was perfect without... | |
 | John Owen - Bible - 1813 - 620 pages
...the things which kings, wise men, and prophets, desired to see, and saw them not, God having prepared some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect, ch. xi. 40. For, 1. Herein God is glorified. — The kingdom of Christ is the glory of... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 616 pages
...that is, the saints of (he Old Testament, hit-dug obtained a good report through fault, received tint the promises, God having provided some better thing...generations, yet they received not the promises, nor were •jade perfect. Thus saith the objection. But the plain meaning of this text is, that they lived and... | |
 | Week - 1813 - 160 pages
...to the effects of their own ignorance, wanting those clear and powerful motives to love their God. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Nevertheless, this prepared them for the times of grace; so that if any riper souls came... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...earth. 39 Aod these all, having obtained a good report through faith, reeeived not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfeet. CHAP. XII. 1 An exhortation to eonstant faith, patienee, $ godliness. 22 Jl eommendation... | |
 | Thomas Bell - Faith and works - 1814 - 514 pages
...concludes that she is the mother of us all, Gal. iv. 26. which agrees with what he says, Heb. xi. 40. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Where there is the like perfection, there there is the exultation of|the mother over... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - Bible - 1815 - 600 pages
...having obtained a good report, through faith received not the promises; (though actually made to them) God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be . The prophet Ezekiel holds up this doctrine in his xxxviith c/iap. from the ISthver. "therefore prophecy... | |
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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. 
