 | 1833 - 402 pages
...that God hath prepared for them a city. " And these all died in faith, not having received the promise God ; having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." (Heb. xi. 13, 16,40.) And the " better thing for us," is the heavenly Jerusalem, the... | |
 | Francis Bragge - Theology - 1833 - 286 pages
...to lighten the Gentiles, as well as then the glory of the people Israel : God, as the apostle says, having provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect k. And lest we should again prove careless, and unattentive to this law, it is collected... | |
 | Joseph Bingham - Absolution - 1834 - 438 pages
...so long as their bodies continued in the grave : which the apostle himself allows, when he says, " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect:" therefore the Church may be supposed, by her sacrifices and oblations for martyrs to... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Bible - 1834 - 276 pages
...earth. 39 And these all having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise : 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. EXHORTATION TO FAITH AND PATIENCE. HEBREWS xn. — 1 Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed... | |
 | Robert Walker (Vicar of St. Winnow.) - 1834 - 232 pages
...observation. " 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."* Notwithstanding, as I have endeavoured to show, pious men who walked with God, both... | |
 | Joseph Bingham - Absolution - 1834 - 436 pages
...so long as their bodies continued in the grave : which the apostle himself allows, when he says, " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect :" therefore the Church may be supposed, by her sacrifices and oblations for martyrs to... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 466 pages
...of the earth. 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.' Heb. xi. 33-40. Claude also taught his little boys to write : and they could sing sweetly... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1834 - 348 pages
...obtained a good report through faith, did so " not having received the promise," because God had " provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." By Hope, therefore, were they saved, and by Hope must we. " Christ's house are we, if... | |
 | Charles Henry Wharton, George Washington Doane - 1834 - 444 pages
...this direct assurance : " All having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, might not be made perfect ;" that is, they relied on the promise; but this promise was given only in,... | |
 | William Howels - Sermons, English - 1835 - 492 pages
...Person, whose blessings embrace time past, as well as future, honoured the curse, and command, of God. " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."1 The perfection of the church of God consists in three things : first, in having Christ... | |
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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. 
