 | Elias Smith - Bible - 1808 - 308 pages
...and tell the a.rs, if thou be able to number them ; and he faid uii,) hhn, fo fhall thy feed be ; and he believed in the L.ORD ; and he counted it to him for righteoufnefs. And ie faid unto him, I am the LORD thai brought thee out BZef Ur of the Chaldees, to... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...barrenness, that thy seed, both spiritual and carnal, sliall be as infinite in number, as they. XV. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. And Abram believed in God, and stedfastly relied on these gracious promises, which were... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...barrenness, that thy seed, both spiritual and carnal, shall be as infinite in number, as they. XV. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. And Abram believed in God, and stedrastly relied on these gracious promises, which were... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And Ԁ 0 H& righteousness. 7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to... | |
 | Robert Trail - 1810 - 530 pages
...tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said utsta /tint, so sluiil thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness. What was this believing in the Lord, but the believing with the heart, the truth of... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 502 pages
...it shews, that God is pleased with faith, and that without faith it is impossible to please him — he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Gen. xv. 6. If you would know the justice of this, the case is plain. Man is in a state... | |
 | John Bevans - Religious education of children - 1810 - 134 pages
...Canaan they came. 7. And there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. Gen. xv. 6. And he believed in the Lord ; and he counted it to him for righteousness. Rom.iv. 11. And he [Abraham] received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 506 pages
..."his seed should be as the stars of heaven, that cannot be numbered;" for it is immediately added, that "he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness," Gen. xv, 5, 6. For although this promise concerned things temporal, yet it belonged... | |
 | George Pretyman - Calvinism - 1811 - 614 pages
...works, which Faith consisted in giving implicit c»edit to God's promise of numerous descendants, " He believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness (I)." Abraham therefore was justified upon that occasion, in the same manner as St. Paul... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1912 - 504 pages
..."his seed should be as the stars of heaven, that cannot be numbered;" for it is immediately added, that "he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness," Gen. xv, 5, 6. For although this promise concerned things temporal, yet it belonged... | |
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And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD ; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 
