 | Daniel P. Pike - Theology, Doctrinal - 1855 - 210 pages
...profane person. He did not possess a right spirit at the death of his father. The Apostle also says, " he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Esau was seeking for repentance, and not a place for repentance. The word auteen rendered it being... | |
 | Alexander Penrose Forbes - Justification - 1857 - 250 pages
...says, "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." Here is a serious condition of things. A sinner has existed who, deeply aware of the misery of " having... | |
 | 1862 - 1672 pages
...17), where it is stated, that when Esan " would have inherited the leasing, be WM rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," on which both Clarke and Scott agree that the repentance •ought by Esau was not repentance for his... | |
 | William Henry Starr - Chicago (Ill.) - 1857 - 308 pages
...thing, in Christian communities, there can be no repentance upon a death-bed. Esau, we have seen, " found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." His birthright he had sold for a mess of pottage — the deed was done and past, and God took it not... | |
 | Edward Payson - Sermons - 1858 - 612 pages
...birthright; for ye know how that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, and found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. My friends, if you, through fear of losing your worldly pleasures, refuse to embrace the Saviour now,... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - Absolution - 1859 - 666 pages
...warning, " Sin no more, lest a worse thing happen unto thee;" and Esau's lost birthright, when "he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears ;" and the threatenings of Divine Wisdom, that there is a time when " they 'shall call upon Me, but... | |
 | English confessors - 1860 - 380 pages
...for ye know how that afterward, when he woulil have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.'" For two years and a half, as he informs us, that awful Scripture sounded in his ears like the knell... | |
 | 1860 - 978 pages
...and afterwards had to bear the punishment which their late sorrow could not remove. Richard. Esau " found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb. xii. 17 ; Gen. iivii. Mr. Weston. Yes, Esau did not profit by the example of holiness he saw in... | |
 | Mary E. Simpson - 1861 - 134 pages
...what they are doing. God has said, " My Spirit shall not alwaj strive with man :" we know that Esau found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears ; and we are told of Judas Iscariot, it had been better for that man if he had never been born. Joseph... | |
 | Edward Hadarezer Knowles - Bible - 1861 - 270 pages
...sold his birthright. For ye know how that, when he wished even after that to inherit the blessing, he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. WARNING. Terrible as were the sanctions of the Law, . That had A mountain palpable ; it burnt with... | |
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He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," sounded in the depths of his soul. 
