 | Cotton Mather - 1815 - 378 pages
...mindful of him, and the son of man, that thou visitest him ! " Unto the father of the faithful, my God said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them,; so shall thy offspring be. Glorious Lord, make me one of them. A worm of the dust, filled with the... | |
 | James Kidd - 1815 - 620 pages
...evident from the circumstances mentioned in the following verse. " And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them ; and lie said unto him, So shall thy seed be." The attentive reader will readily perceive that, through... | |
 | John Hoyland - 1816 - 486 pages
...heir." We may conclude it was before dayAlight in the morning, that He brought him forth abroad, and said : " look now toward heaven and tell the stars,...;" and he said unto him : " so shall thy seed be." Abram's doubts are now entirely removed ; he believed in the Lord, and He counted it to him for righteousness.... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...• (') "• 37- " «*ix hundred thousand that were •' men." God had said to Abraham, Gen. xv. 5. " Look now toward heaven, and tell the " stars, if thou be able to number them ; and " he «aid unto him, " So shall thy seed be." And again, Gen. xxii. 17. "I will multiply " thy seed as the... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1816 - 422 pages
...families of the earth be blessed." " And * ' He" brought him forth abroad, and said, " Look now towards heaven, and tell the " stars, if thou be able to number them : and *' He said, So shall thy seed be." And again, upon Abraham's offering up his son Isaac, GOD said unto him, " In... | |
 | Nicholas Bownd - 1817 - 158 pages
...of whom it is written (Gen. c. 15, v. 5), that the Lord brought him forth, and said, Look up now to heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number...them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be : and Abraham believed the Lord. And the Apostle commendeth this faith in him so much the more, because... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...the Lord brought him forth abroad, and said, look now towards Heaven, and tell the stars, if lliou be able to number them : and he said unto him^ so shall thy seed be. Here again, ht believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Also, Gen. xvii. 1—8,... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pages
...shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and htell ave the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land kSo shall thy seed be. 6 IT And he 'believed in the LORD; and he ""counted it to him for righteousness.... | |
 | William Wake - 1817 - 494 pages
...be numbered. And again he saith, nAnd God brought forth Abraham, and said unto him, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : so shall 1 Gen. v. 24. s Found.. * Being found. — Geu. vi.vii. viii. 4 In unity. * James ii. 23.... | |
 | George Tomline - 1818 - 600 pages
...if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered (e)." — And again, God said, " Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars,...number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be(f)" These promises of numerous descendants were made to Abraham at the time he had no children,... | |
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And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 
