 | Sinclare Kelburn - Sermons - 1821 - 392 pages
...thereby given them two immutable things to rely upon. The apostle has reasoned thus upon the subject: " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself: for men verily swear by lhe greater: nnd an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife.... | |
 | Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...instance to which the Apostle here refers, is the " oath which was sworn to our father Abraham." " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself." The record is found in Genesis xxii. 1C, " By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord." But this is not... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 620 pages
...that ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself; saying, Surely, blessing, I' will bless thee ; and multiplying, I will multiply thee.... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inkerit the promises, For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, be sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | Christopher Benson - Bible - 1822 - 472 pages
...shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, he confirmed it by an oath"." And " because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself," saying, " By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, that in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - Baptism - 1824 - 434 pages
...still farther established, from what the writer of the epistle to Heb. saith (chap. vi. 13, 18.) " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could...after he had patiently endured he obtained the promise ; wherein God willing more abundartly to show unto the heirs of salva~ t'nn the immutability of his... | |
 | Bible - 1824 - 474 pages
...That ye be not slothM, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1832 - 590 pages
...God, and to take effectual care of them through their pilgrimage here on earth. The aposlle says, " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely in blessing I will bless thee ; and so after he had patiently endured,... | |
 | 1825 - 630 pages
...days of our life." (Luke i. 68—75.) And, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, St. Paul tells us, that '.' when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." " Wherein—in which .thing, namely, the certainty of his purpose to bless ;—Cod, willing more abundantly... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825
...great Ibis man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils, ver. 3, 4. ь For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying 1 will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Heb. ģi. 13... | |
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying : — Surely blessing I will bless thee, And multiplying I will multiply thee. 
