 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1808 - 326 pàgines
...patriarchs is worthy of regard. They that say such things declare plainly, that they seek a country, And truly, if they had been mindful of that country...out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they seek a better country ; that is an heavenly, Heb. xi. 14, 15, 16. That is to say, those... | |
 | Elias Smith - 1808 - 308 pàgines
...xxxix. 12, and cxix. 19-] For they that fay fuch things, declare plainly that they feek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had an opportunity to have returned ; but now they defire a better country, that is an heavenly ; wherefore... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pàgines
...upon their glorious home in heaven. XI. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country Jrom whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. It was not in respect of Mesopotamia, whence they came, that they accounted themselves strangers ;... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 520 pàgines
...came with them from Haran, and from Urof the Chaldees, by the 15th verse, where the apostle says, " and truly if they had been mindful of that country...they might have had opportunity to have returned." It was they that upon God's call left their own country. Two things may be observed in the text. 1.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 578 pàgines
...came with them from Haran, and from Ur of the Chaldees, by the 15th verse, where the apostle says, " and truly if they had been mindful of that country...they might have had opportunity to have returned." It was they that upon God's call left their own country. Two things may be observed in the text. 1.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pàgines
...pilgrims on the earth. For they that say auch things, declare plainly that they seek a country. Arid truly if they had been mindful of that country from...came out, they might have had opportunity to have relumed : But now they desire a better country, that is, an/ heavenly." So also the respect which a... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 574 pàgines
...earnestly seek, ntrptSa, a native country, not Chaldea. 15. for if they had remembered that from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16. But indeed they strongly desired a better country, even an heavenly. — After these express testimonies,... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1912 - 504 pàgines
...loss. They only are so, who live always in a sense of such wants as this world cannot supply. \ VERSE 15. •And truly if they had been mindful of that...they might have had opportunity to have returned. $1, The words an answer to an objection that might be raised. $2. The objection fully answered. §3.... | |
 | John Owen - 1812 - 584 pàgines
...xlvii. 9. 1 Chron. xxix. 15. " For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country; and truly if they had been mindful of that country...they might have had opportunity to have returned," Gen. xxiv.5—7. " But now they desire a better, that is an heav enly: wherefore The design of the... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 508 pàgines
...They only are so, who live always in a sense of such wants as this world cannot supply. ,r * VERSE 15. And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had ofifiortunity to have returned. $1. The Words an answer to an objection that might be raised, $C. The... | |
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And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he... 
