 | Martin Madan - 1772 - 106 pages
...Name out of my Father's Houfe: And David fware unto Saul. Heb. vi. 15. For Men, verily fwear by tbe greater, and an Oath for Confirmation, is to them an End of all Strife. 3 Jer. iv. 2. And thou /halt fwear the Lord liveth, in Truth, in Judgment, and in Righuoufnefs. APPENDIX.... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...thee. 15 And fo, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promife. 1 6 For men verily fwear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife. 1 7 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to fhew unto the heirs of promife the immutability... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1791 - 212 pages
...8. Becaufe he can fwear by no greater than himfelf, he faith, " As I live, &V." For men verily fwear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of ftrife : wherein God, willing more abundantly to fhew unto the heirs of promile the immutability qf... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - 538 pages
...happened about the .beguuiingoi the sixteenth century. t Usher de Christ. Ecc. success. & sta(u. •I an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all , strife." Other scriptures are alleged by them to the same purport. Men who held these things should be acquitted... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 pages
...the cuftom of fwearing judicially without any mark of cenfure or diiapprobation ; 'Men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all ftrif«." But though a nation has an uadoubted right to require the fecurity of an oath upon occafions... | |
 | 1798 - 408 pages
...becaufe he could fwear by no greater, he fvvare by himfelf. (Gen. xxii. 16. 17.) For men verily fwear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife (or contradiction,) wherein God, willing more abundantly to (hew unto the heirs of promife the... | |
 | 1799 - 404 pages
...fince he could fwear by no greater, he fware by himfelf : for indeed men fwear by a greater Being ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction. Therefore God, being willing to fhew more abundantly to the heirs of promife the immutability... | |
 | 310 pages
...of his counsel — he confirmed it by an oath, and, "because he could swear by no greater, he sware by Himself, saying, Surely blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." (See Heb. vi. 17, xiii. 14.) The record of that Scripture is given for our encouragement. The promises... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pages
...hope, which they derive from it, the apostle says, from the 16th to the 20th verse of the context, For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them sJtn end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, the... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1797 - 582 pages
...the honour of God, and the edification of our neighbour, as Appears from Heb. vi. 16. Men fwear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife." Other Scriptures are alleged by them to the fame purport. Men who held thefe things fhould... | |
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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. 
