 | Samuel Chapman Loveland - 1818 - 244 pages
...so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly, to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | 1820 - 230 pages
...after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife ; wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - 1821 - 392 pages
...con- "'• 17elusion there are but these two certain, the one a sentence of judicial decision given by authority thereto appointed within ourselves ; the...The former of which two ways God himself in the law prescribeth, and his Spirit itwas"which directed the very first Christian churches in the world to... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - 1821 - 392 pages
...because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself: for men verily swear by lhe greater: nnd an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 320 pages
...because he could swear by no greater, he " sware by himself; for men verily sware by the great*' er : and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end " of all strife. Wherein God willing more abundantly " to shew unto the heirs of promise theimmiitability of " his counsel... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1822 - 376 pages
...'"• ir elusion there are but these two certain, the one a sentence of judicial decision given by authority thereto appointed within ourselves; the other, the like kind of sentence given by a-more universal authority. The former of which two ways God himself in the law prescribeth, and his... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | 1849 - 700 pages
...for the fact of thcir universal occurrence. (Heb. vi. 16.) " for men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." Fallen as man is, numberless are the instances which show demonstratively that man was made for religion.... | |
 | 1823 - 886 pages
...judicially without any mark of censure or disapprobation : ' Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." But though a nation has an undoubted right to require the security of an oath upon occasions of real... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
