| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...and for ever." Heb. 13:8. To the same sense are those words, Heb. 1 1 : 40, rightly paraphrased ; " God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." As if the apostle had said, " God hath appointed the accomplishment of the promise of... | |
| George Bennet - Intermediate state - 1800 - 442 pages
...at that time will I cause the branch of righteousness to growup ..unto David." Jer. xxxiii. 14. . " God having provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect." Heb. xi. 40. Under the image of the small intercourse which the Jerusalem on earth had... | |
| Francis Randolph - Advent sermons - 1800 - 256 pages
...this dired assurance — All having obtained a good report through faith, received not the pro. raise, GOD having provided some better thing for us, that they without us might not be made perfect ; that is, they relied on the promise, but this promise was given only in,... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...earth. 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 4-0 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. CHAP. XII. DIVERS EXHORTATIONS. WHEREFORE, seeing we also are compassed about with so... | |
| Herman Witsius - Antinomianism - 1807 - 360 pages
...attend to the grace of this life, according to its extent, its degree, and other circumstances, God provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect, Heb. xi. 40. .U. It is II. Nevertheless, since the saving grace of unjustly M- (^ist... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...is there spoken of, as appears by the last verses of the foregoing chapter : " And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not...thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect." Mark i. 15. " Saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand : Repent... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1808 - 326 pages
...enumerates the saints, whose virtues have formed the leading subject of this discourse. These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not...thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect. What is implied in their not having received the promise ? Does it mean that they did... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...is there spoken of, as appears by the last verses of the foregoing chapter : " And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not...thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect." Mark i. 15. " Saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand : Repent... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...presence of that (now exhibited) Saviour, in whom all the promises of God are Yea and Amen : XI. 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they 'without us should not be made perfect. God having provided for us, in these latter times, better things, even the manifestation... | |
| Isaac Watts - Future life - 1811 - 466 pages
...saints of the Old Testament,) having obtained a g.ood report through faith, received not the promises, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect:" Now these had been dead for many generations, yet they received not the promises nor... | |
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