 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...entered into the heart of man, the things •which God hath prepared for them that love him. Heb. xi. 16. They desire a better country, that is, an heavenly...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. John xiv. 2. In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would have told you... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 508 pages
...heavenly, it will take them off from inordinate cleaving to things otherwise greatly desirable. VERSE 10. But now they desire a better country, that is, an...heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath fircfiared for them a city, $1. Connexion and design. The subject stated. {2.... | |
 | John Smith - 1812 - 286 pages
...confessed, that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." They desired a " heavenly" country : " wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city." In the faith of Abraham and of all the ancient saints, in the faith of the apostles, and all... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1812 - 702 pages
...the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ; and what is imphed in this we may learn from Heb. xi. 16. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city. Yea, all the great blessings of the Gospel are summed up in one promise, Hev. xxi. 7. He that... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1912 - 504 pages
...it will take them off from inordinate cleaving to things otherwise greatly desirable. VRUSE 10. Bv-t now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be tailed their God; for he hath prepared for them a city. .jl. Connexion and design. The subjee^ stated-... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - 1814 - 390 pages
...Speaking of the pious patriarchs, "If," says he, "they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out they might have had opportunity to have...called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." What more then do we find required in the covenant of grace, than we find required and promised... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...favours on his faithful friends and servants. Whenever he distributes favours, he gives like a God. " But now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city" (Heb. xi. 16)—'" a continuing city" — " a city which hath foundations" — " a kingdom which... | |
 | Archibald Bonar - 1815 - 534 pages
...XII. HEAVEN PREPARED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS. HUB. xi. 16. But now they desire a better country, that zV, an heavenly: "wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them cf city. THE change of his views and pursuits which every sincere lover of the Saviour experiences,... | |
 | Moses Lowman - 1816 - 428 pages
...seek a country, says the Apostle, and this country he well understands of an heaven16. ly country ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. When God appeared to Moses, and sent him to deliver the children of Israel out of the bondage... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1816 - 482 pages
...piN ** grims upon earth. For they that say " such things declare plainly that they " seek a country, a better country; that " is, an heavenly ; wherefore...called their God, for " he hath prepared for them a city." Heb. xi. 13. The Apostle having thus proved, by an induction of particulars, that true religion... | |
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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
