 | William White - 1813 - 532 pàgines
...infant. But to revert to the subject of the Abrahamick Covenant: it may be well to consider, whether the promise — " I will be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee," can be said to have involved any spiritual benefit; unless this extended to the favour... | |
 | Elihu Thayer - 1813 - 390 pàgines
...fulfilment of this promise. There is no good thing promised in the bible, which is not implied in this promise, " I will be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee." In this promise, the church, in all ages, has had great support and comfort. In this sense... | |
 | James BOWDEN (Minister at Tooting.) - 1814 - 634 pàgines
...attended your entrance on life: how the love of God presented you with an exceeding great and precious promise, " I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee." What a sweet assurance, an abundant grant! It is the charter of our Zion ; it is the inheritance... | |
 | Greville Ewing - 1824 - 268 pàgines
...one of that family ; and even now did not intend to perform to the believing parent the unabolished promise, " I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee." Unless we meet with a believer, we have no warrant to dispense any ordinance ; but when... | |
 | 1868 - 346 pàgines
...them in my heavenly Father's hands with perfect confidence," she said to her pastor. " I can trust his promise, ' I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee ;' and I can leave to his wisdom the time and means of its fulfilment. Only I have one request... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pàgines
...walked with him and obeyed his voice. When Abrani was separated from his kindred, and received the promise — " I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee," his posterity was marked oct as the line in which the favours of God were to run. " Salvation... | |
 | Abraham Booth - 1829 - 470 pàgines
...posterity of that illustrious patriarch were not, as such, interested in the covenant of grace by virtue of that promise, " I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee ;" it must be vain and presumptuous for Christian parents to imagine, that their children... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1832 - 168 pàgines
...which authority is to decide? — What idea might be affixed, by such a supposed reader, to the other promise, " I will be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee," is not perhaps so easily determined. But whatever it might be, the same question would... | |
 | Francis Russel Hall - 1832 - 248 pàgines
...Spiritual seed, was in substance the Covenant God makes with all those who shall be saved. For the promise, " I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee," is one of the promises of the (c) Gospel Covenant : and therefore when the Covenant was... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1835 - 642 pàgines
...one of that family, and even now did not intend to perform to the believing parent the unabolished promise, ' I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thec.' Unless we meet with a believer, we have no warrant to dispense any ordinance ; but when... | |
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They all are, like him, justified freely by God's grace. They all, like him, have Jehovah for their God, according to the promise, " I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. 
