 | John Sargent - 1830 - 534 páginas
...in body. After simply crying to God for mercy and assistance, I preached on Heb. ix. 16 : — ' Bat now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1830 - 302 páginas
...mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned: tout now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city." Finally. Forget not the Admonition of the Saviour : "Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation."... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 606 páginas
...sojourneth in a foreign country '. Now the best of worldly things will no longer satisfy them ; but they " desire a better country, that is, an heavenly....called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city m." Now they are soundly persuaded that " there is a God, and that he is the rewarder of them... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 548 páginas
...they might have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed, to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city," ver. 13 — 16. It was the sorest kind of uishment that the saints endured, that is mentioned,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 544 páginas
...they might have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city;" ver. 13 — 16. It was the sorest kind of banishment that the saints endured, that is mentioned,... | |
 | James Parsons - 1830 - 554 páginas
...they might have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city."* And in the same manner, the emblem is adopted by the apostle as the appropriate representation... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 590 páginas
...opportunities (and too many invitations) to return to it. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city ;" Heb. xi. 10. 13—16. This noble end ennobleth both the persons and conversations of believers.... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 páginas
...of his goodness, and to prove to men and angels, that he has not called himself their God in vain. " But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." Not a city of inspection ! Many— (Eternal God ! will it be any of this company ? — ) will... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 376 páginas
...whose builder and maker is God;" as also did all the patriarchs, of whom he saith in the same place, " But now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city " (Heb.xi. 16). And the Apostle, in writing to the Philippians, made high account of this, when... | |
 | William Mathers - 1831 - 214 páginas
...pilgrims on the earth ; for they that say suck things, declare plainly, that they seek a country ; but now they desire a better country — that is an...called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. — 89. 40. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.... | |
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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... 
