 | Abraham Taylor - Arianism - 1728 - 184 pages
...the prophecy of d Enoch, that Chrift fhould come to judgment j from the promife made to Abraham c, that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be blefled j from Jacob's f invocating the Angel that had redeemed him from all evil j and, to name no more, from... | |
 | World history - 1747 - 524 pages
...him; and GOD afTured him, that he would blefs, protect, and multiply him in an extraordinary manner ; and that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be blefled e : he readily obeyed, being doubtlefs well acquainted with the call, and taking Sarah his wife, and... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1772 - 490 pages
...not of debt, for this fignal act of obedience, by an oath, GOD gives and confirms the promife, '*' that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be blefled," ver. 17, 18. With what comfort may we fuppofe the good old man and his fon went down from the mount,... | |
 | Esq. J. Stephens - Christianity and other religions - 1777 - 392 pages
...prove him, and was ready to offer up his only fon, for a burnt facrifice, upon the altar, he promifed that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be blefled, and that a great and powerful nation fhould defcend from that fon. The Jewifh hiftory likewife fets... | |
 | 1785 - 580 pages
...poflerity, the inftitution confcquently general, which is proved by the teftimony and aflurance to Abraham that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be bleffed. 2d Query. Was the validity of the promife marked out by the fcriptures for the manifeftation... | |
 | George Whitefield, Josiah Smith - Methodist Church - 1794 - 312 pages
...grace, though not of debt, for this z€t of obedience, by an oath, God gives and co. the promife, " that in his feed all the nations of the " earth fhould be bleffed," verfe i7, i8. With what comfort may we fuppofe the good old man at fon went down from the... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Bible - 1801 - 624 pages
...and Gentiles into one church was not, in former ages wholly unknown ; for the promife to Abraham was, "that in his feed, all the nations of the earth fhould be blefled." The introduction of the gofpel and its glorious fuccefs among the Gentiles were often foretold by the... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1804 - 534 pages
...to that of ESAU for the conveyance of the blefling promifed to ABRAHAM. Thepromife ID-ABRAHAM was, that " in his feed all the nations -of the earth fhould be blefled." But it was no part of this prornife, that the blefling fhould be conveyed through the elder branch... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - Sermons, English - 1806 - 464 pages
...unifon with the declarations of this eminent Meflenger of God ; with the primeval covenant to Abraham, that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be blefTed; and with the correfponding promifes of the Moft High renewed from generation to generation,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Sermons, English - 1891 - 600 pages
...that land vpon which he then flept. 2. That hee would multiply his feede as the duft of the earth. 3. That in his feed all the Nations of the earth fhould be Blefled. . And laftly, That he would be with him and keepe him whitherfoeuer hee went, and bring him againe... | |
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GOD gives and confirms the promife, '*' that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be blefled, 