| Richard Cecil - 1825 - 488 páginas
...their way? Was it by faith, or sight ? They advanced only on the ground of divine assurances; 'and they were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims upon earth.' Do not, therefore, allow yourself even to wish (or the by-path, which needs no... | |
| Elisha Bates - 1825 - 340 páginas
...of the efficacy of faith: and then says: "These all died in faith; not having received the promise, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them." Heb. 11. 13. Our Lord also testified: "Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw... | |
| James Ross - 1825 - 472 páginas
...received the promises, that is, in their actual accomplishment ; but having seen them afar off, they were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were pilgrims and strangers on the earth. It was Christ in the promises that inflamed their love, animated... | |
| Adam Empie - 1825 - 156 páginas
...in faith, not having received " the promises, but having seen them afar off"; and were peru suaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they " were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. They that say " such things, declare plainly that they seek a better country,... | |
| William Jones, William Stevens - 1826 - 526 páginas
...finishedTherefore it is truly said of them•; these all died in faith, not having received the promises; but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth *. The land of Canaan was not the object of their hope: it was only a sign and... | |
| John Pridham - 1826 - 438 páginas
...endured, as seeing Him who is invisible. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off; and were persuaded...them, and confessed "that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth ' '.'* Saviour in the New Testament, which enforce the same doctrine. We can... | |
| Daniel Guildford Wait - 1826 - 264 páginas
...with evidences of the latter dispensation, and " died in the faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth-" But, under the succeeding economy, these things were seen through types and... | |
| Joseph Taylor - 1826 - 362 páginas
...St. Paul, speaking of the old testament witnesses, " died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them," entertaining the most perfect confidence that the gospel would be, ultimately, fully revealed.... | |
| Temple Chevallier - 1826 - 460 páginas
...them onwards on their way. " These all died in faith : not," indeed, " having received the promises, but having seen them afar off; and were persuaded of them and embraced them."g But, whatever degree of hope might, from this source, be derived by the Jew, the continued... | |
| Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2004 - 638 páginas
...which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them, afar off, and were persuaded...embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.... | |
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