 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.  Assistant of Education - Page 1261823Full view - About this book
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...ilotk, and of tbe fat thereof; and the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering. With Heb. xi. 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ; and by it he, being... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - Atonement - 1814 - 390 pages
...was a righteous man. And his bringing his offering to God in faith was a proof of his righteousness. "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts." The sacrifice of... | |
 | Samuel Seabury - Sermons, American - 1815 - 316 pages
...guilt. This account seems to be confirmed by the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, who says, " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness, that he Was righteous ; God testifying of his gifts. "J In the language... | |
 | Theology - 1816 - 458 pages
...Good works are the works of a justified man. ' The Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering.' ' By faith, Abel offered Unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain ; by which, he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts.' ' Christ, of God,... | |
 | 1816 - 442 pages
...Good works are the works of a justified man. ' The Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering.' ' By faith, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain ; by which, he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts.' ' Christ, of God,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...Christ, whose righteousness it is by which the sinner stands just before God. — And hence it is said, " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." Heb. xi. By faith he did it ; but faith in respect to the righteousness that justifies ; for we are... | |
 | William Owtram - Atonement - 1817 - 424 pages
...sacrifices to have been commanded by God : they adduce to the same purpose the assertion of an apostle, that " by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent " sacrifice than Cain :"* and nothing, they say, is done " by faith," but what is done by the direction of God himself. IV.... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - Unitarianism - 1818 - 238 pages
...of the forest is mine, and mine are the cattle upon a thousand hills:" Plalm 1. 9. And Heb. xi. 4, " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness, that he was righteous, God testifying of HIS GIFTS." These sacrifices... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1818 - 320 pages
...the character of obedience, being founded upon the knowledge and recognition of the Divine will. " By faith Abel offered " unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. " Without faith it is impossible to please " Him." The offerings of superstition are to an " unknown... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1818 - 490 pages
...broad line of distinction between the two essentially differing sacrifices of the children of Adam. By FAITH Abel offered unto God a more excellent . sacrifice than Cain : or, as one of the old English translations with somewhat greater accuracy expresses the sense of... | |
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