 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 492 pages
...the honour of God, and the edification of our neighbour, as appears from Heb. vi 16. Men swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." Other scriptures are alleged by them to the same purport. Men who held these things should be acquitted... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pages
...it as a known custom to terminate disputes in this .manner. " Men verily swear by the greater, arid an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." pe manifestly speaks of this practice ia .terms of approbation, Paul had the mind of Jesus Christ.... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...oath i but let your yea be yea ; and your ,uay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. c Heb. vi. 1C. For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 2 Cor. i. 23. [See letter b.] Isa. Ixv. 16. That he who blcsseth himself in the earth, shall bless... | |
 | Henry Venn - 1810 - 280 pages
...has left upon record his unchangeable purpose to save their souls, in the following express terms : " God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs...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... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 518 pages
...secured—] e Proy. xxviii. 14. CXXV. SECURITY OF THOSE WHO FLEE TOTHE CITY OF REFUGE. • r Heb. vi. 17, 18. God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, conjirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things\ in •which it -was impossible for God to lie,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...the cuftom of fwearing judicially without any mark of cenfure or difapprobation : ' Men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all flrife." But though a nation has an undoubted right to require the fecurity of an oath upon occafions... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 pages
...capable of being believed, and we are obliged to believe others upon their oath : " For men swear hy the greater; -and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife," according to our text ; for we may not think that any man is so forgetful of God, that he would undertake... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 516 pages
...SECURITY OF THOSE WHO FLEE TO THE CITY OF REFUGE. Heb. vi. 17, 18. God, •willing1 more abu.ndan.tiy to' shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed. it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in zohich it was impossible for God to lie, we might have... | |
 | Joseph Field - 1811 - 358 pages
...multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 540 pages
...Hebrews speaks of the custom of swearing judicially, without any mark of censure or disapprobation : " Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." Upon the strength of these reasons, we explain our Saviour's words to relate, not to judicial oaths,... | |
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That by two 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 upon the hope set before us... 
