 | James Milligan - 1818 - 304 páginas
...been mindful ef that country from whence they came out, they might have had an opportunity to kave returned. But now they desire a better .country, that...called their God : for he hath .prepared for them a city. By what charter did he become their God, if not by the covenant of graee ? If it was not by that,... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1818 - 112 páginas
...provided for them a heavenly city, is certain from the apostle Paul. " Now they desire," he observes, " a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city." {Heb. xi. 16.) — In short, if God is the indivisible sum of all good, whenever he promises... | |
 | George Burder - 1818 - 332 páginas
...Testament believers are more clearly taught to expect a future and eternal inheritance in Heaven; " wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city" (Heb. xi. 16) : as if it had been said, God would be ashamed to be called their God, if nothing... | |
 | 1820 - 190 páginas
...by death, on the 4th of October, 1812. "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." " And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the... | |
 | Thomas Robbins - 1820 - 186 páginas
...therefore, the true friends and children of Christ. Thus it is testified of them, in the same chapter, " But now they desire a 'better country, that is, an...called their ;God : for he hath prepared for them a cjty." He that had prepared a cily for the ancient saints, is the same holy Saviour that said to his... | |
 | John Sargent - 1820 - 506 páginas
...extremely weak in body. After simply crying to God for mercy and assistance, I preached on Heb. xi, 16: — 'But, now, they desire a better country, that is,...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city.' On repeating the text a second time, I could scarcely refrain from bursting into tears. For... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 páginas
...and that Rock was Christ.' 1 Cor. x. 4. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 páginas
...After simply crying to God for mercy and assistance, I preached on Hebrews xi. lo. " But now they seek a better country, that is an heavenly. Wherefore God...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." On repeating the text I could scarcely refrain from bursting into tears, for the Mount and St.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 páginas
...After simply crying to God for mercy and assistance, I preached on Hebrews xi. l6. " But now they seek a better country, that is an heavenly. Wherefore God...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." On repeating the text I could scarcely refrain from bursting into tears, for the Mount and St.... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 páginas
...mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might * Chap. «. 8. have had opportunities to have returned. But now they desire a better country...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." — "A heavenly country" — " a city," which they were to inhabit after death, was, then, the... | |
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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that... 
