...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 ' (Heb. xii. 17). And when I tried to hope, so as to take the least encouragement, the words sounded...

...reference to the latter, " 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," he applied to himself. In his subsequent prayers und efforts to find mercy, that dreadful saying met...

...repentance ? Is it sorrow or grief simply ? Certainly not. Else had Esau repented, of whom it is said, " he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears ;" that is, he could not regain his position, could not change his father's mind. Eepentance is a change...

...the very sun that shineth in heaven did grudge to give me light." And still the dreadful words, " He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," sounded in the depths of his soul. They were, he says, like fetters of brass to his legs, and their...

...saying in his ears, " Ye know that when he would have inherited a blessing he was rejected ; for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Something that he had never felt before struck him as appalling in the awful fixedness of all past...

...the HOLY GHOST generally strives with man until death. He does not always, as the case of Esau shows, who " found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." I commend to VERENA, Mrs. Alexander's beautiful little child's hymn on this subject, in which are the...

...birthright. For ye know that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he teas rejected: for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." {HE story of Jacob and Esau (as given in Genesis xxvii.) is one of those deeply interesting and life-like...

...saying in his ears, " Te know that when he would have inherited a blessing he was rejected ; for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Something that he had never felt before struck him as appalling in the awful fixedness of all past...

...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.' " For two years and a half, as he informs us, that awful Scripture sounded in his ears like the knell...

...committed to confirm it. In the interview between Esau and his father Isaac, St. Paul says that the former "found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears" (Ueb. xii. 17)— ».«., no means whereby Isaac could break hi* bargain with Jacob. Locta PcnileiUvt....