 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
 | Thomas Charlton Henry - 1829 - 356 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."* There is something truly terrifying in the idea of a person deeply regretting his past misconduct,... | |
 | 1871 - 582 pages
...living without the Christian principle. He had not honoured his church birthright. For a time, " he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." But at length he discovered that it was not to be found by tears. "On September 3, 1820, walking across... | |
 | William Hancock - 1830 - 198 pages
...one morsel of meat, sold his birthright, and afterwards, when he would have inherited his blessing, found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears (Heb. xii. 16, 17.)—these, together with every alarming denunciation against hypocrites and apostates, from... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 600 pages
...his birth-right ; and 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." Heb. xii. 16, 17. VOL. VI. 65 514 PRACTICAL SERMONS. 7. Are you careful to see to it that the grounds of your... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 668 pages
...is said of Esau 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 b ." It seems then that repentance in this life may be too late.' Answ. It is true that Esau's time... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 614 pages
...his birth-right; and 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." Ileb. xii. 16, 17. 6. Inquire, whether you improve this day as one who doth not depend upon ever having... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Southey - 1830 - 562 pages
...sold his birthright, when he would afterwards have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for " he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." At the recollection of a better •f text, the words of that disciple, (blessed above all men,) whom... | |
 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...certainly uses it for general edification ; besides, when it is said of Esau, as it is in the text, that he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears, it does not signify that he could not repent, that the power of repentance was withheld from him by... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1830 - 586 pages
...regenerating grace. Where there is no grace, there may, notwithstanding, be a flood of tears, as in Esau, who "found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." There may be great flashes of joy, as in the hearers of the word, represented in the parable of the... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1831 - 238 pages
...For ye know how that afterward, when he mould have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears 1 . THE account, which the Scripture gives of Esau, conveys a solemn warning to a class of characters... | |
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