 | George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pages
...persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 476 pages
...their habits — entered into their spirit — and found how timely it was said of the faithful, that if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came, they might have had opportunity to have returned. I was received, caressed, and 1 may say, that I had... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 432 pages
...this answer, in Heb. xi. 13, 14, where it is called a confession, and its implication is insisted on : They that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. We may see in it a charming example of spirituality, and how such a state of mind will find a way of... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 432 pages
...this answer, in Heb. xi. 13, 14, where it is called a confession, and its implication is insisted on : They that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. We may see in it a charming example of spirituality, and how such a state of mind will find a way of... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1826 - 412 pages
...persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they, that say such things, declare plainly, that...returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a... | |
 | John Dennant - 1826 - 350 pages
..." an heavenly." It could not relate to their paternal country, Chaldea, for we are told, " if th§y had been mindful of that country from whence they...;" " but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath provided for them a city."... | |
 | Robert Morrison - 1826 - 596 pages
...; and truly, if their minds referred, when they made such a declaration, to the country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to...desire a " better country," — " that is a heavenly." If St. Paul understood the old Testament, it is manifest the Bishop was wrong. Since, then, mankind... | |
 | Temple Chevallier - 1826 - 460 pages
...that they seek a country,"8 the land of their fathers. But they spake not of any earthly land; for " truly if they had been mindful of that country from...they might have had opportunity to have returned:" b whereas the patriarch Abraham demanded an especial oath from Eliezer, 1 the eldest servant of his... | |
 | Temple Chevallier - 1826 - 460 pages
...that they seek a country,"g the land of their fathers. But they spake not of any earthly land ; for " truly if they had been mindful of that country from...out, they might have had opportunity to have returned :"h whereas the patriarch Abraham demanded an especial oath from Eliezer,' the eldest servant of his... | |
 | 1827 - 516 pages
...persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims upon the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that...returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city*."... | |
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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that... 
