 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 574 pages
...cries with which Esau importuned him to do so. And this is what is meant, when it is said, that Esau " found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Had he repented before God, he might have obtained pardon with God : as we also may do, through our... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 326 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." And what is all this to us ? Much every way. I compare your privileges with his privileges — your... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1834 - 384 pages
...; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame. xii. 17. Esau found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Matt, xxvii. 7. Gen. vi. 3. God saith, My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Ps. xcv. 8. Harden... | |
 | William Allen (of Peel.) - Sermons, English - 1835 - 426 pages
...family, and therein of offering up sacrifices and burnt offerings to God. When it is said that " he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," we are not to pervert the meaning of scripture, so as to understand that Esau was too wicked to repent,... | |
 | John Goodwin - 1835 - 568 pages
...Foryeknorv 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, 127 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.... | |
 | George Rogers - Universalism - 1837 - 204 pages
...words : " Fur ye know that afterward, when he would have received the blessing, he was rejected, and found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully •with tears." There is allusion here to the history of Jacob and Esau. The latter; when it was too late, tudulged... | |
 | Auguste Louis Philippe Rochat - Hezekiah, king of Judah - 1837 - 284 pages
..." 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." Heb. xii. 17. But here it is evident, that when it is said, " he found no place for repentance," the... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - Devil - 1837 - 224 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.' And this stuck always with me. Being loth and unwilling to perish, I began to compare my sin with others,... | |
 | Edwin Sidney - Clergy - 1839 - 580 pages
...and that I was so far fallen away that it was impossible to renew me again unto repentance. Now was the case of Esau, who found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears, particularly terrifying to me, and every threatening of Scripture seemed levelled at me at once. You... | |
 | John Howie - 1839 - 606 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' woful yielding unto and joining with the malignant party and interest at... | |
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He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," sounded in the depths of his soul. 
