 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 590 pàgines
...opportunities (and too many invitations) to return to it. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city ;" Heb. xi. 10. 13—16. This noble end ennobleth both the persons and conversations of believers.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 548 pàgines
...they might have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed, to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city," ver. 13 — 16. It was the sorest kind of uishment that the saints endured, that is mentioned,... | |
 | William Mathers - 1831 - 214 pàgines
...pilgrims on the earth ; for they that say suck things, declare plainly, that they seek a country ; but now they desire a better country — that is an...called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. — 89. 40. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 376 pàgines
...whose builder and maker is God;" as also did all the patriarchs, of whom he saith in the same place, " But now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city " (Heb.xi. 16). And the Apostle, in writing to the Philippians, made high account of this, when... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pàgines
...of his goodness, and to prove to men and angels, that he has not called himself their God in vain. " But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." Not a city of inspection ! Many— (Eternal God ! will it be any of this company ? — ) will... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pàgines
...which hath foundations, whose builder and Maker is God."" Of others eminent for piety it is said, *' They desire a better country, that is, an heavenly...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city."' What must that abode be, which a God of love provides for those he condescends to own ! How... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pàgines
...of them, and embracing them, and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth ; " " both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, city." (Heb. xi. 13, 16.) And Moses also " had respect unto the recompence of the reward." (verse 26.)... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pàgines
...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...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. //.-. xi. 13—16. GENESIS [AM 2*15. CHAPTER L. 1 AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1832 - 168 pàgines
...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...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.!' The faith, and hope, and desire, of the patriarchs, are here represented as having for their... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pàgines
...minduil 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...called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city." This fine passage shows us that Jacob was a pilgrim, not only or principally because of his... | |
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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
