| Timothy Dwight - 1825 - 574 ページ
...come forth out of thine own bowels, shall be thine heir : and again ; Look now toward heaven, and till the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Confiding in these promises wa? that act of Abraham, concerning which it is said, in the following... | |
| John McDowell - 1825 - 560 ページ
...that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered." Gen. xv. 5 ; "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, look now toward heaven, and tell the stare, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him so shall thy seed be." Gen. xvii. 2, 4,... | |
| Cotton Mather - 1825 - 298 ページ
...better and more regular capacity for prosecuting these intentions ? . My Reader — " Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them ;" yea, tell first the leaves of a Hyrcanian forest, and the' drops of the Atlantic ocean — then... | |
| 1825 - 724 ページ
...Genesis, when the promise of a numerous progeny was made to Abraham—" and he brought him tin i lj abroad, and said, Look now toward Heaven, and tell the STARS, if 1 1 IMH be able to number then* ; and He said to him, so shall tby seed be.'' This is al«o repeated... | |
| Robert Wilson (A.M.) - 1826 - 236 ページ
...lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto, him, saying, This shall not be thine heir ; but he that shall come forth...toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to sum them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed the LORD ; and he counted it... | |
| Jonathan Law Pomeroy - 1826 - 332 ページ
...horses, throughout the whole earth. It is said in the account which we have of God's promise to Abraham. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now...them; and he said unto him, so shall thy seed be. The spiritual seed of Abraham will probably, far out number his natural posterity; and to his spiritual... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 902 ページ
...one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be... | |
| 1847 - 798 ページ
...behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall No. 59, VOL. V. — New Series. 2 r. not be thine heir ; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir" (Gen. xv. 3, 4). As in his present account Sarai his wife could not be the mother of the promised heir... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1826 - 878 ページ
...case by an example, before we decide so hastily. God promised to Abraham, saying, " Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said, so shall thy seed be." Gen. xv. 5. This promise was repeated still more explicitly to Jacob. " And... | |
| Joseph Fincher - 1827 - 438 ページ
...no seed : and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. THE LORD'S ANSWER. GENESIS xv. 4 — 6. This shall not be thine heir : but he that shall come forth...brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward B heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed... | |
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