 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 590 pages
...opportunities (and too many invitations) to return to it. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city ;" Heb. xi. 10. 13—16. This noble end ennobleth both the persons and conversations of believers.... | |
 | James Parsons - 1830 - 554 pages
...they might have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city."* And in the same manner, the emblem is adopted by the apostle as the appropriate representation... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 376 pages
...whose builder and maker is God;" as also did all the patriarchs, of whom he saith in the same place, " But now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city " (Heb.xi. 16). And the Apostle, in writing to the Philippians, made high account of this, when... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...of his goodness, and to prove to men and angels, that he has not called himself their God in vain. " But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." Not a city of inspection ! Many— (Eternal God ! will it be any of this company ? — ) will... | |
 | William Mathers - 1831 - 214 pages
...pilgrims on the earth ; for they that say suck things, declare plainly, that they seek a country ; but now they desire a better country — that is an...called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. — 89. 40. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pages
...which hath foundations, whose builder and Maker is God."" Of others eminent for piety it is said, *' They desire a better country, that is, an heavenly...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city."' What must that abode be, which a God of love provides for those he condescends to own ! How... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pages
...of them, and embracing them, and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth ; " " both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, city." (Heb. xi. 13, 16.) And Moses also " had respect unto the recompence of the reward." (verse 26.)... | |
 | George Fox - 1831 - 610 pages
...faith of the elders, and of Enoch, Abel, and of Abraham, and these by faith sought a country that is heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared a city for them ; and such went under mockings, stonings, scourgings and imprisonings ; and wandered... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1832 - 168 pages
...with this passage, Heb. xi. 13 — 16. " These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.!' The faith, and hope, and desire, of the patriarchs, are here represented as having for their... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...pilgrims on the earth ; for they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country : arid truly, if they had been mindful of that country from...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. //.-. xi. 13—16. GENESIS [AM 2*15. CHAPTER L. 1 AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and... | |
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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... 
