 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 538 pages
...desire that every one of you do they) the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope unto the end: that ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience inherit the promises. And all they who follow that cloud of witnesses who are gone before... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1818 - 432 pages
...abundantly, to shew unto the heirs of promise, the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; for when God made promise to Abraham,* because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself." And the design of this oath was, " that we might have strong consolation who have... | |
 | Samuel Chapman Loveland - 1818 - 244 pages
...the 6th chapter to the Hebrews, argues the unconditionally of the promise in the following language : "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely, blessing, I will bless thee ; and multiplying, I will multiply thee.... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 pages
...assurance, to confirm his promise by an oath, is finely touched upon in the Epistle to the Hebrews. " When God made " promise to Abraham, because he could swear by " no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely, " blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will " multiply thee... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 566 pages
...assurance, to confirm his promise by an oath, is finely touched upon in the Epistle to the Hebrews. " When God made " promise to Abraham, because he could swear by " no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely, " blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will " multiply thee... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1818 - 112 pages
...introduce, in this connexion, but one passage1 more. Writing to the Hebrews, the apostle says— " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I •will multiply thee... | |
 | George Burder - 1818 - 332 pages
...so contrary to human appearances, was made to him. So St. Paul relates the matter (Heb. vi. 13) :" When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself," saying, " Surely, blessing I will bless thee ;" in the book of Genesis it is, "... | |
 | 1825 - 512 pages
...delivered on the occasion by the Rev. John D. Moriarty, from Hebrews vi, IS, VOL. THI. My, 1825. 34 « That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." I am your brother, and in affliction, but am persuaded that my loss,... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...desire that every one of you do show the •ame diligence, to the full assurance of hope to the end. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who...Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he aware by himself, Saying, Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | 1820 - 336 pages
...the earth -be blessed." — Gen. xxii. 18. Some say this blessing is conditional. Hear then St. Paul: "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, surely* blessing i will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
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And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end ; that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 
