 | George Stanley Faber - 1827 - 340 pàgines
...possessed by Abel, led him to offer a sacrifice from the firstlings of his flock : for, says the Apostle, BY FAITH Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Consequently, the want of faith in a divine revelation, on the part of Cain, led him to offer a vegetable... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pàgines
...perdition ; but of them who believe to the saving of the soul.— Heb. x. 32. 35. 37—39. Col. i. 23. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, &c. By faith .Enoch was translated, that he should... | |
 | 1828 - 588 pàgines
...essential part, for he had no faith in the Redeemer. The Apostle particularly notices it, when he says, " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." In Abel's offering, we seo a striking reference to the sacrifice which prefigured the Atonement, but... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 242 pàgines
...offered, but the disposition of the offerers. Our text illustrates and explains the passage in Genesis, " By FAITH Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." Cain came before God as a righteous man ; Abel as a sinner. Cain brought an offering of acknowledgment... | |
 | William Owtram - 1828 - 428 pàgines
...to have been commanded by God : they adduce to the same purpose the assertion of an apostle, that " by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent " sacrifice than Cain :"* and nothing, they say, is 1 done " by faith," but what is done by the direction v of God himself.... | |
 | 1828 - 924 pàgines
...the state in which that heart is found by him. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted >" " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." In Abel, his sacrifice was symbolical of an inward faith and devotion to God, which led him to do well... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1828 - 476 pàgines
...explicit mention of the two brothers by St. Paul; who, in his Epistle to the Hebrews,'tells us, "'\>j faith Abel offered " unto God a more excellent sacrifice than €' Cain, by which he obtained witness that " he was righteous ; God testifying of his " gifts." Of these several... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pàgines
...ver. 5. The reason of this preference is stated in the Epistle to the Hebrews, where we read, that " by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice* than Cain :" xi, 4. Now the offering of Cain, as well as that of Abel, was an obvious indication of such a general... | |
 | 1829 - 396 pàgines
...principle. He is. essentially different from the unconverted. You see this difference in Abel and Cain. "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain ; Ly which he obtained witness that he was righteous ; God testifying of his gifts."f But Cain, through... | |
 | 1830 - 602 pàgines
...ascribes the entire difference to the possession or the non-possession of this efficacious principle. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous." And with respect to the general blessings comprehended... | |
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By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 
