 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...the same, or otherwise it will be sad for them ; but every one shall see first or last. But remember Esau, who found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. " 3. Against the ministers, their woeful yielding unto and joining with the malignant party and interest... | |
 | Missions - 1826 - 638 pages
...his guilt, that the pains of hell seemed to have seized him. He recollected and applied to himself the case of Esau, who found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Also the following awful passages of Holy Writ, Heb. vi. 4—6 ; Heb. x, 26, 27 ; 2 Peter ii. 21. These... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...for ye know how that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Now, the ending Esau's day of grace is to be reckoned from his selling of his birth-right ; For there... | |
 | Theology - 1820 - 336 pages
...are not salutary. Beau's case, who "when be would have inherited the blessing was rejected ; for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," merits consideration in this place. The opposers of universal salvation will find this an unfortunate... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Sermons, English - 1822 - 432 pages
...that one cannot be too earnest with Christians to beware of it, lest it happen to them as it .did unto Esau,* who found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Christians therefore should be very often put in mind, that the terms of salvation are already fixed,... | |
 | George Wilkins - English fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...sold his birthright, and afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.' ' Esau,' says Jeremy Taylor, ' had time enough to repent of his bargain, as long as he lived; he wept... | |
 | John Keble - Christian poetry, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...unto his father, Bless me, even me also, 0 my father. Gen. xxvii. 34. (Compare Hebrews xii. 17. He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.) s " AND is there in GOD'S world so drear a place " Where the loud bitter cry is rais'd in vain ? "... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - Sermons, English - 1827 - 516 pages
...reminds the Hebrews, that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. It may very easily be supposed that Esau, when he came to reflect upon his conduct, would soon and... | |
 | Charles Brooks - Christian life - 1828 - 424 pages
...For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. ESAU and Jacob were the twin sons of Isaac and Rebecca. Esau was the elder of the two, and was a man... | |
 | Maria Stevens - Christian life - 1832 - 234 pages
...by the blessing of his father, he lifted up his voice and wept. His cries however availed not: "he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." The blessing was irreversibly pronounced by Isaac, I have blessed him, yea, and he shall be blessed.... | |
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He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," sounded in the depths of his soul. 
