 | Thomas Hannam - 1826 - 462 pągines
...John xiv. 19. He is theirs. This is a source of " strong consolation to the heirs of promise, who have fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before them ”"who can say " my beloved, my Saviour, my Redeemer, is mine." Cant. ii. 16. He is theirs, whose riches... | |
 | Abraham Booth - 1827 - 380 pągines
...full of glory." " He that believeth hath everlasting life," in the promise and earnest of it. Having " fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them ;" those two immutable things, • John viii. 35. Gal. iv. 30. f Rom- vi- 23J Luke xxii. 29. Thus the... | |
 | James Haldane Stewart - 1828 - 500 pągines
...one part of the text are described as " the heirs of promise;" and in the other as those " who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them in the Gospel." There is a particular encouragement in this two-fold description. In the first, believers... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1829 - 514 pągines
...coming? the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, and those only .will be saved who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them in the gospel. This portion of history may he profitably compared with James ii. Heb. xi. and 2 Pet.... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pągines
...of my Lord on leaving this earthly abode? None find peace anil hope in that hour, but those who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them in the Gospel. The world retires then, and leaves its wretched votaries in poverty and despair. But... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 pągines
...things immutable, in which it is impossible for God to lie, may they have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to " lay hold on the hope set before them." " My sheep," said Jesus, " hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me ; and I give unto them... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1831 - 666 pągines
...were relieved by the promise of the seed of the woman. Christians are spoken of as those " that have fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before them ;" which representation implies great fear, and sense of danger, preceding. To the like purpose, Christ... | |
 | 1831 - 584 pągines
...shall stand when he appeareth ? Those who have cast their anchor upon the rock of ages, those who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them, even Jesus Christ ; and whose lives and dispositions are such as accord with the precepts of the Gospel,... | |
 | 1832 - 510 pągines
...of lively gratitude for what our gracious God has already done for these people. Many of them have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them ; and these good beginnings are doubtless sure indications, that He who has made of one blood all the... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 562 pągines
...if he left so much as one of them to perish". But " he cannot lieb :" and, therefore, all who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them, may have the most abundant consolationc," in an assured expectation that " he will perfect that which... | |
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On the other hand, such as have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them, are commanded to .be joyful in their King. 
