...sold his birthright, and afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears . . . see that thou refuse not him that speaketh; for if they escaped not who refused him that spake...

...For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected : for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." * And in a fourth, St. Peter writes, with respect to professors of the faith, that if, after they have...

...and when God proceeds to reckon with you for your negligences and ignorances, you be like Esau, who " found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." There may be others among you, who do not rise so high in the scale of morals and religious knowledge...

...house, where he both rested himself and entertained his distinguished friends. Heb. xii, 17- ' For he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.' The place of repentance, note, here intended, was to be in the mind of Isaac, with reference to his...

...For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." A critical examination of this verse will convince us, that it has no reference to Esau's repentance,...

...For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Now the words, " lest there be any fornicator," do not seem to be applied by the Apostle to Esau, but...

...who, "afterwards," as he describes, " when he would have inherited the blessing, was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."* III. But, further, we are here informed that even for this gift of repentance we must also be beholden...

...righteous, I and my people are wicked; I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. " And Balaam said, Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his. " And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord ; yet honour...

...words of his father, he cried with an exceeding bitter cry, and said, Bless me, even me also, O my father; yet found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Heb. xii. " And Pharaoh said to Moses, The Lord is righteous, I and my people are wicked; I have sinned gainst the...

...For ye know how that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." In this last respect, Esau's repentance is an image of that despair, which will seize the wicked when...