 | William Jay - 1834 - 326 pages
...doom with his doom. " For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Read the relation in the book of Genesis. Nothing could be more affecting than his expostulations,... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1834 - 410 pages
...his house, where he both rested himself and entertained his distinguished friends. Heb. xii, 17- ' For he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.' The place of repentance, note, here intended, was to be in the mind of Isaac, with reference to his... | |
 | Amos Westoby - 1834 - 182 pages
...and when God proceeds to reckon with you for your negligences and ignorances, you be like Esau, who " found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." There may be others among you, who do not rise so high in the scale of morals and religious knowledge... | |
 | W. E. Trenchard - 1835 - 454 pages
...quoted and applied to the spiritual condition of Christians, who, "afterwards," as he describes, " when he would have inherited the blessing, was rejected...repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."* III. But, further, we are here informed that even for this gift of repentance we must also be beholden... | |
 | William Allen (of Peel.) - 1835 - 426 pages
...sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Now the words, " lest there be any fornicator," do not seem to be applied by the Apostle to Esau, but... | |
 | Francis Harriman Hutton - 1835 - 424 pages
...speaking of Esau, says, " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." A critical examination of this verse will convince us, that it has no reference to Esau's repentance,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...father, he cried with an exceeding bitter cry, and said. Bless me, even me also, О my father ; yet found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Heb. xii. "And Pharaoh said to Moses, The Lord is righteous, Í and my people are wicked ; I have sinned... | |
 | Wilson C. Rider - 1836 - 348 pages
...meat sold his birthright. For ye know that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears."* If we turn away from him who speaks from heaven, it will be equally impossible for us to escape the... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...proper to be applied : lu ' We know, how that afterwards, when he would have inherited a blessing, he was rejected : for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.' But how was ' Esau rejected from inheriting a blessing,' when we find, thnt upon his importunity with... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Southey - 1837 - 356 pages
...the Hebrews, now having sold his birthright when he would afterward have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ;. for "he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."* At the recollection of a better text,' the words of that disciple (blessed above all men) whom Jesus... | |
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God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled ; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited... 
