 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...evidently regarded by the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Of Abraham he says ; " by faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange...and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise : for he looked for a city, which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Then he adds,... | |
 | William Latta McCalla - Baptism - 1831 - 410 pages
...when he says, (( By faith he sojourned " in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwel" ling in tabernacles, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs " with him of the same promise ; for he looked for a " city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker " is God."(y) 3. You will,... | |
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 518 pages
...shepherd ; and by faith Abraham sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ; for they looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker was God. Heb. xi. 9, 10.... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...Wherein hit father, Ike,] See chap. zvii. 8 ; xxiii. 4 ; xxviii. 4 ; and xxxvi. 7- and com. By faith Abraham sojourned in the land of promise, as in a...and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. But now " they " (" Abraham and toe other patriarch-," Sec.), desire a better country, that is an heavenly... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Infant baptism - 1832 - 168 pages
...Hebrews, formerly quoted — that they founded their expectations on divine promise : — " By faith Abraham sojourned in the land of promise, as in a...and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise : for," — on the ground of that promise surely — " he looked for a city which hath foundations,... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...something beyond the present life ; how else was it fulfilled ? Accordingly the Apostle tells us that Abraham " sojourned in the land of promise, as in...and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise : for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Yea, says he, "... | |
 | Christian life - 1832 - 642 pages
...infallible testimony; we being informed by the apostle, he speaking of Abraham, says, " By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country,...and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise." And afterwards says, concerning the antedeluvians, and postdeluvian patriarchs, Abel, Enoch, Noah,... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 896 pages
...Pharaoh's daughter ? ' He had respect unto the recomJ pence of the reward.' How came Abraham to 'sojourn in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling...and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ?' ' He looked for a city which had foundations, whose builder and maker is God.' Thus the Hebrews... | |
 | Richard Watson - Bible - 1832 - 1030 pages
...promise of a heavenly inheritance. Hence St. Paul says, " By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ;" but this " faith" did not respect the fulfilment of the temporal promise ; for St. Paul odds, "... | |
 | American Sunday-School Union - Bible - 1832 - 230 pages
...Abraham sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles, (or tents) with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise." (Heb. xi. 9.) The Jews have found some difficulty in reconciling this promise of the land " for ever,"... | |
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By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 
