| Samuel Whitman - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...they might have had opportunity to have returned: but now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly. Wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." What more then do we find required in the covenant of grace, than we find required and promised... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...Whenever he distributes favours, he gives like a God. " But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city" (Heb. xi. 16)—'" a continuing city" — " a city which hath foundations" — " a kingdom which... | |
| Archibald Bonar - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...XII. HEAVEN PREPARED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS. HUB. xi. 16. But now they desire a better country, that zV, an heavenly: "wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them cf city. THE change of his views and pursuits which every sincere lover of the Saviour experiences,... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...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,... | |
| Moses Lowman - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...he well understands of an heaven16. ly country ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly ; wherefore God is not ashamed to be 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 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...that say " such things declare plainly that they " seek a country, a better country; that " is, an heavenly ; wherefore God is not ** ashamed to be called their God, for " he hath prepared for them a city." Heb. xi. 13. The Apostle having thus proved, by an induction of particulars, that true religion... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...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... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...they might " have had opportunity to have returned; but now " they desire a better country, that is an heavenly : " wherefore God is not ashamed to be 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 - عدد الصفحات: 112
...is certain from the apostle Paul. " Now they desire," he observes, " a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be 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 Horne, William Jones - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...might " have had opportunity to have returned ; but now " they desire a better country, that is an heavenly : " wherefore God is not ashamed to be 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,... | |
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