 | Robert Walker (Vicar of St. Winnow.) - 1834 - 232 pages
...the Messiah, suffered for righteousness' sake. And he concludes with this remarkable observation. " And these, all having obtained a good report through...better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."* Notwithstanding, as I have endeavoured to show, pious men who walked with God, both... | |
 | Charles Henry Wharton, George Washington Doane - 1834 - 444 pages
...in regular order, both before the law, and under the law, concludes with this direct assurance : " All having obtained a good report through faith, received...provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, might not be made perfect ;" that is, they relied on the promise; but this promise was given only in,... | |
 | Joseph Bingham - 1834 - 436 pages
...so long as their bodies continued in the grave : which the apostle himself allows, when he says, " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect :" therefore the Church may be supposed, by her sacrifices and oblations for martyrs to... | |
 | Joseph Bingham - 1834 - 438 pages
...so long as their bodies continued in the grave : which the apostle himself allows, when he says, " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect:" therefore the Church may be supposed, by her sacrifices and oblations for martyrs to... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 pages
...earth. 39 And these all having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise : 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. EXHORTATION TO FAITH AND PATIENCE. HEBREWS xn. — 1 Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1834 - 348 pages
...obtained a good report through faith, did so " not having received the promise," because God had " provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." By Hope, therefore, were they saved, and by Hope must we. " Christ's house are we, if... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1835 - 300 pages
...country, that is a heavenly, where God has prepared for us a city, Heb. xi. 13—16. They did not receive the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect. To that better thing wr are come now in faith, and soon shall come in fall enjoyment.... | |
 | George Pearson - 1835 - 482 pages
...completion of the promise of that happiness which shall be given to them at the general resurrection ; " God having provided some better thing for us ; that they, without us, should not be made perfect3." The prophecy contained in this Seal has been applied to different periods of the Christian... | |
 | William Howels - 1835 - 492 pages
...Person, whose blessings embrace time past, as well as future, honoured the curse, and command, of God. " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."1 The perfection of the church of God consists in three things : first, in having Christ... | |
 | 1835 - 434 pages
...risen with healing under his wings ; and Christians are all the children of the light and of the day: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Hence our Saviour said. to his disciples — not comparing them with the Gentiles, but... | |
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And these all, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 
