| Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 pages
...defire that every one of you do (hew the fame Diligence tn the full AHurance of HOPE unto the End : 12. That ye be not SLOTHFUL, but Followers of them, who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promifes. jy But we are not of them who draw back unto PERDITION; but of them... | |
| Philo (of Alexandria.) - 1800 - 542 pages
...and fiiit emploved by St. Paul in reference to the same event. St. T'iuil, Hebrewa vi. 13, says, " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself; saying, For man verily swears by the greater; and an oath for confirmation ia to... | |
| 1806 - 504 pages
...assurance, to confirm his promise by an oath, is finely touched upon in the epistle to the Hebrews. "'When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by .himself, saying, surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying J will multiply tbet... | |
| 1804 - 438 pages
...That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end ; 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he 3 D could swear... | |
| John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...desire, that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end : that ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience inherit the promises." 8. This hope is full of consolation. " We, who remain," saith the Apostle,... | |
| Laurence Howel - 1807 - 588 pages
...goodness of God, and his fidelity to thn .e sacred engagements into which he had condescended to enter. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, (as men usually do) he sware by himself, saying, Surely, blessing I will bless thee," &c. He observes... | |
| Samuel Austin - 1807 - 344 pages
...desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope, unto the end. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises."1 Could it be ascertained, conclusively, that Abraham's servants were... | |
| Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - 1807 - 388 pages
...end — the same diligence as those did who have gone to inherit the promises ; for it is added, " that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." Having made these explanatory observations concerning the spirit of... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 514 pages
...desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope unto the end ; that ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience inherit the promises." And all they who follow that cloud of witnesses that are gone before... | |
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