 | Calvin Ellis Stowe - 1839 - 138 pages
...fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness, that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts : and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh." "Not as Cain, who was of that wicked... | |
 | 1843 - 600 pages
...assurance was given of the same truth : " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ;" probably by some such visible token as was afterwards vouchsafed in the... | |
 | John Howie - 1839 - 606 pages
...by faith in whom he became righteous ; and by the same faith he offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. It was the divine acceptance of Abel's sacrifice, signified by some visible... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 558 pages
...from God. • And yet their t Heb. xi. 4, 6. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which' he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ; and by it, he being dead, yet speaketh. — But without faith it is impossible... | |
 | UNITARIANISM. - 1839 - 826 pages
...perfection of their great realities in the New. " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain ; by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts."* Cain, then, was an unbeliever, and Abel had faith. Who was the object of... | |
 | Thomas Williams - 1839 - 178 pages
...righteous Abel." And the apostle says, " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ; and by it he being dead yet speaketh." Abel possessed the peculiar and essential... | |
 | Richard Treffry - 1839 - 276 pages
...found sufficiently ample for our purpose. " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts : and by it he being dead yet speaketh." Heb. xi. 4. Upon the first glance... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 210 pages
...death. We have the authority of inspiration. " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts : and by it he being dead yet speaketh." (Heb. xi. 4.) " The Lord had respect... | |
 | William Cave, Henry Cary - 1840 - 484 pages
...the prerogative of primogeniture. By which means, Abel " offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts." c For " he had respect unto Abel and to his offering ; but unto Cain and... | |
 | First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...obtained a good report through faith." " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts : and by it he being dead, yet speaketh." The history of Abel's holy life and... | |
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By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh. 
