| John Gill - Bible - 1737 - 370 pages
...bur gives it, and he receives it, tho' his heart cannot afford it, but fuggefts the contrary : for if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things *. And tho' a believer may loie the comfort of the divine favour, when his intereft... | |
| Josiah Hort (abp. of Tuam.) - 1738 - 534 pages
...Man, who is not firft convicted by his own Confcience, according to that of St. John, i Ep. 3. 21. Beloved, if our Heart condemn us not, then have we Confidence towards God ; that is, we are fure God will acquit us at the Day of Judgment. The Jews being fubject to the Mofaical... | |
| James Blair - 1740 - 428 pages
...Thing, and will deprive us of the Bleffing we might otherwife expecl: from our Prayers, i John iii. 21. Beloved, if our Heart condemn us not, then have we Confidence towards God, and •whatfoever we ask, we receive of him, becaufe we keep his Commandments. And the Pfalmift lays... | |
| Charles Wheatly - 1746 - 456 pages
...ye know, tbaf every one that doth Righteoufnefs, is born of him, ver. 29. In the 36 Chapter, again, Beloved, if our Heart condemn us not, then have we Confidence towards GOD : And 'whatfoever we ajk, we receive of him, becaufe we keep bis Com" mandments, and do tbofe Things,... | |
| John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1748 - 412 pages
...foberly, and right eeu/ly, and godly in this prefent world, we may take joy and comfort in it ; for if our heart condemn us not, then have •we confidence towards God. But if, upon the fearch and trial of our ways, our cafe appear clearly to be otherwife, or if we have... | |
| John Abernethy - 1751 - 420 pages
...19, 20, 21. And hereby we know that we are of the truth , andJhall affure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart,...condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God. SERM. r~I~"v HE defign of this text is to teach us XIV. JL upon what grounds we may hope for the divine... | |
| Samuel Pike, Samuel Hayward - 1755 - 206 pages
...Difficulty, which has perplexed fome ferious Minds. The Paflage referred to is, i John iii. 20, 11. For, if our Heart condemn us, God is greater than our Heart,...knoweth all Things. Beloved, if our Heart condemn its to«, then have we Confidence towards God. The Difficulty drawn from thefe Words is to this The... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - Christian life - 1760 - 370 pages
...WorJhipper of God, and doth his Will, him he heareth \ for which Reafon the Apoftle allures us, that, if our Heart condemn us not, then have we Confidence towards God, not only a general Confidence in his Favour, and the good Difpofitions of his Providence towards us,... | |
| Richard Elliot - Christianity - 1764 - 574 pages
...requeft to GOD, and thy words be not the very language -of thine heart, he will not hear thee. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things ; but if our heart condemn us noty then bave wé confidence towards God. But fome people make not GOD'S... | |
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