 ray father; yet found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb. xii. " And Balaam said, Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." " And Pharaoh said to Moses, The Lord is righteous, I and my...  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 528by John Milton - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Jemima Shedd - 1839 - 244 pages
...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. — Heb. 12 : 16, 17. Esau, with tears, after selling his birthright, carefully sought for the blessing belonging... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1839 - 262 pages
...and what many have not seen. Seek. Seek first the kingdom of heaven; let it be sought with care. Esau found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Sell. Buy the truth and sell it not. Esau sold his birth-right to Jacob. The French government sold... | |
 | Charles Frederick Childe - 1839 - 448 pages
...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." The preceding remarks, according to the spirit of the epistle, have turned chiefly upon the subject... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1839 - 516 pages
...be sounding in me ; 'For ye know, how that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.' " Then began I with sad and careful heart to consider of the nature and largeness of my sin, and to... | |
 | Lucius Robinson Paige - 1840 - 388 pages
...'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.' HEB. xii. 17. IT has been the fancy of some, that Esau must be excluded from the enjoyment of happiness in the... | |
 | 1840 - 504 pages
...For ye know how that, afterwards, when be would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." ESAU'S PEN'ITENCE.» IN Esau, she (the Church) represents to us tbe nature and unhappy issue of a false... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...ever ready to Kfl inherited the blessing, he was its birthright for the pottage, rejected : for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor nnto blackness,... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1841 - 230 pages
...received it back, but could not, as it was the will of God that Jacob should be made lord, of all. "He found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb. xii. 17. BISHOP, an overseer, or inspector. The word was used among the Athenians to mean such as they sent... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1841 - 226 pages
...received it back, but could not, as it was the will of God that Jacob should be made lord of all. "He found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb. xii. 17. BISHOP, an overseer, or inspector. The word was used among the Athenians to mean such as they sent... | |
 | Asher Moore - 1841 - 236 pages
...same sense of the word repentance also occurs in the passage relating to Esau, Heb. xii. 17, " For he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." It was not personal reformation of character that this man sought, but a mere change or revocation... | |
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