 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...WHICH IS BY FAITH. 1. Righteousness is by faith. Righteousness by faith is not a novel doctrine. " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice...which he obtained witness that he was righteous." The faith which makes us righteous before God, is a living, active faith, which produces universal... | |
 | Samuel Shuckford - 1808 - 462 pages
...better than Cain's, is another proof that sacrifices were appointed by some positive institution of GOD. By faith Abel offered unto GOD a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. The faith, of which several instances are given in this chapter, is" the belief of something declared... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 428 pages
...And Abel offered the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof;" compared with Heb. xi. 4. " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." This is the first explicit account of offering sacrifice. I may ask with propriety, how came Abel to... | |
 | Ezekiel Blomfield - 1809 - 690 pages
...without the shedding of blood there is no remission. The observation is confirmed by Hebrews zi. 4, 5, 6. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice...obtained witness that he was righteous ; God testifying ofhh gifts, and by it, he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...the fat thereof: and the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering. With Heb. xi. 4. By £iith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he unblameable and unreproveable in God's sight " ; but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased... | |
 | John Bevans - 1810 - 134 pages
...framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. 5. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...the just man should live by his faith, Hab. ii. 4. Hence it is said that, '' By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which...that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh," Hcb. xi. 4; Gen. iv. 4. And we are told, in the New Testament,... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 506 pages
...way and manner of the creation of all things, which faith discovers. VEtSE 4. By faith Abel nff~ered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he teas righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet sfieaketh. §1, Connexion.... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1811 - 472 pages
...Abel, and to his offering ; But unto Cain and his offering he had not respect." Compare Heb. xi. 3. " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." O how defective are the saints duties in the eye of the law ! The believer himself espies many faults... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 pages
...does the Bible afford you one. It appears plain to me, that Abel had his sacrifice to look to, when he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by his faith he has still a voice in the word of God. Noah had both his altar and sacrifice to... | |
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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. 
