 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 616 pages
...saints of (he Old Testament, hit-dug obtained a good report through fault, received tint the promises, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us, should not be made perfect. Now these had been dead for many generations, yet they received not the... | |
 | Week - 1813 - 160 pages
...to the effects of their own ignorance, wanting those clear and powerful motives to love their God. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Nevertheless, this prepared them for the times of grace; so that if any... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...earth. 39 Aod these all, having obtained a good report through faith, reeeived not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfeet. CHAP. XII. 1 An exhortation to eonstant faith, patienee, $ godliness. 22... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1814 - 514 pages
...concludes that she is the mother of us all, Gal. iv. 26. which agrees with what he says, Heb. xi. 40. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Where there is the like perfection, there there is the exultation of|the... | |
 | Samuel Seabury - 1815 - 316 pages
...good report through faith, received not * Luke xx. 38. f Luke xxiii. 43. $ Acts ii. 34. the promise : God having provided some better thing for us ; that they without us should not be made perfect.'* There is, therefore, some promise which these saints have not yet received,... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - 1815 - 600 pages
...having obtained a good report, through faith received not the promises; (though actually made to them) God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be . The prophet Ezekiel holds up this doctrine in his xxxviith c/iap. from the ISthver.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 pages
..." For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did." And chap. xi. 40. " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made period." The ancient dispensation is spoken of. -is that which God found fault with,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1819 - 616 pages
...Ancient saints, And these all, having obtained a good report through Faith, received not the promise : God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. The promise here denotes, I apprehend, the good, or reward, promised to... | |
 | 1820 - 230 pages
...Christians past. In the conclusion , he declares that these saints had not received the pro. niise, " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." I would wish to know to what church formally existing m the world, the... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 pages
...of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.' (Heb. xi. 205 33—40.) Claude also taught his little boys to write ;... | |
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And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 
