 • These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.  The Mercersburg Review - Page 1281872Full view - About this book
 | Elias Boudinot - Bible - 1815 - 600 pages
...obtained a good report, through faith received not the promises; (though actually made to them) God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be place you in your own land; then shall ye know I the Lord have spoken it and performed it, saitli... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Sermons, American - 1819 - 616 pages
...this word is supposed to include heaven. In Heb. xi. 39, 40, S/. Paul says of the Ancient saints, And these all, having obtained a good report through Faith,...some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. The promise here denotes, I apprehend, the good, or reward, promised to Faith... | |
 | Infant baptism - 1820 - 230 pages
...them, and that of Christians past. In the conclusion, lie declares that these saints had not received the promise, " God having provided some better thing for us,. that they without us should not be made perfect." I would wish to know to what church formally existing in the world, the patriarchs... | |
 | James Philip Hewlett (the elder.) - Sermons, English - 1821 - 460 pages
...received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them...God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." But, more particularly, the Gospel when received in the love and power of it,... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 pages
...was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,...without us should not be made perfect.' (Heb. xi. 33—40.) Claude also taught his little boys to write ; and they could sing sweetly many of the old... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...: where, fore God is not ashamed to be called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise. Rom. i. 16. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 560 pages
...God', concerning whom St. Paul affirms expressly, that " the fathers received not the promises : God having provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect':" therefore, certain it is, that their condition was a state of imperfection,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 562 pages
...God ; concerning .whom St. Paul affirms expressly, that " the fathers received not the promises: God having provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect':" therefore, certain it is, that their condition was a state of imperfection,... | |
 | James Clarke Franks - Bible - 1823 - 482 pages
...DISPENSATION. ITS OBJECTS ENLARGED UNDER THE GOSPEL. APPROPRIATE EXHORTATION. HEB. XI. 39, 40; XII. 1, 2. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,...some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,... | |
 | Week - 1823 - 308 pages
...the effects of their own ignorance, wanting those clear and powerful motives to love their God; God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect, Heb. xi. 40. Nevertheless, this prepared them for the times of grace; so that if any riper souls came forward... | |
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