 | Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 pages
...Hebrews, where having stated the promises of the gospel, he says, ' We have strong .consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us.* Man as a moral and rational being, is bound to a moral and rational conduct. God has given him... | |
 | Henry Venn - Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel - 1810 - 280 pages
...immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us ; which hope we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, which entereth into that... | |
 | Robert Traill - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 600 pages
...acted, when a man hath no prop at all to lean upon, but God alone. Believing is called fitting : We have fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before us, Heb. vi. IK. Now, who flees ? Onty he that can stSnd no longer, that is not able to deal with his... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...immutable " things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, " we might have a strong consolation, who have " fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before " us."1 — The case adduced by Jerome in illustration of his argument, seems foreign to the subject.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Bible - 1813 - 638 pages
...immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, they might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us. And in the passage before us, the Lord said, As I live, all the earth shall be filled with the... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - Presbyterian Church - 1813 - 414 pages
...immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong con . solation who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us." We are not to conclude that the oath of God renders our salvation more certain in itself ; his... | |
 | John Murray - Sermons, American - 1813 - 438 pages
...immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us. " Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast ; and which entereth into... | |
 | 1819 - 492 pages
...Such is the • strong consolation' under all the sorrows of life, which God has given to those ' who have fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before them.' ' Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' To believers it shall be ' a morning... | |
 | James BOWDEN (Minister at Tooting.) - 1814 - 634 pages
...redemption through his blood." They have never, from a conviction of their own lost and helpless state, fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them. They have been awakened to some concern about their souls: their convictions have been attended with... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
...young con verts, I mean those who have been lately awakened to a sense of their misery and danger ; and have fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before them in the gospel. Were I to ask such, if there were any consolation^ n Christ ; " Any consolation in Christ !" they hastily... | |
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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. " That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled... 
