| Moses Lowman - 1816 - 428 ページ
...seek a country, says the Apostle, and this country he well understands of an heaven16. ly country ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. When God appeared to Moses, and sent him to deliver the children of Israel out of the bondage... | |
| Charles Daubeny - 1816 - 482 ページ
...piN ** grims upon earth. For they that say " such things declare plainly that they " seek a country, a better country; that " is, an heavenly ; wherefore...for " he hath prepared for them a city." Heb. xi. 13. The Apostle having thus proved, by an induction of particulars, that true religion has ever been... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1816 - 606 ページ
...better country, that (2) Gen. xxxv. 22. (a) Gen. xxx*iii. 13—18. (4) Gen. xlii. (r) Gen. xlvii. 9is, an heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." (rf) For they would have been stupid beyond all comparison, so steadily to follow promises,... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 ページ
...himself to make them happy after this life, according to what the author to the Hebrews observes, " wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city," Ileb. xi. Iti. This way of arguing was of great force againtt the Sadducees, who denied the... | |
| 1817 - 842 ページ
...whence they came out, they might hâve had opportunity to hâve returned : 16 But now they désire a better country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be <al ici! their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham, whenhe was tried. ofl'ered... | |
| James Milligan - 1818 - 304 ページ
...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 is an...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,... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 604 ページ
...mindful of that " country from whence they came out, they might " have had opportunity to have returned ; but now " they desire a better country, that is an...called their " God : for he hath prepared for them a city." Agreeably to this account, if we look into the story of those friends and favourites of heaven,... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 ページ
...mindful of that " country from whence they came out, they might " have had opportunity to have returned; but now " they desire a better country, that is an...called their " God : for he hath prepared for them a city." Agreeably to this account, if we look into the story of those friends and favourites of heaven,... | |
| Enoch Pond - 1818 - 112 ページ
...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...; 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 to be the portion... | |
| George Burder - 1818 - 332 ページ
...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 more than the... | |
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