 | New Church gen. confer - 1879 - 622 pages
...have been no redemption. If the patriarchs who " all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth," secured to themselves a better country, that is, an heavenly,... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1814 - 514 pages
...propriety be applied to them,. They all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but haying seen them afar off; and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth, Heb. xi. 13. So in particular did Moses himself, by whom the law... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1815 - 644 pages
...from Abel to Abraham and Sarah, says, " These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth, J> Heb. xi. Then the apostle proceeds to shew that they sought... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 598 pages
...apostle speaks of those who died in faith, not having received the promises, or the blessings promised, but having seen them afar off", and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, Heb. xi. 13. Again, as we receive the blessings of the covenant by faith, so to enter into covenant... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 600 pages
...apostle speaks of those who died in faith, not having received the promises, or the blessings promised, but having seen them afar off", and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, Heb. xi. 13. Again, as we receive the blessings of the covenant by faith, so to enter into covenant... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - 1815 - 598 pages
...me a people : for these (Abel, Enoch, &c.) all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them, afar off, and were persuaded of them and embraced them. — By faith Abraham offered up Isaac; accounting that God was able to raise him up, evenfrom... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...of all who are walking iu the same way, These all died in faith ; not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Brethren! it is the utmost wish of my heart, and my most earnest... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 606 pages
...foundations, whose builder and maker is God. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded...them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1816 - 482 pages
...whom, speaking in general, he says, " 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 con" fessed that they were strangers and piN ** grims upon earth. For they that say " such things declare... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 664 pages
...their way ? Was it by faith, or sight ? They advanced only on the ground of divine assurances; and they were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims upon earth. Do not, therefore, allow yourself even to wish for the by-path,... | |
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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. 
