 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...of his goodness, and to prove to men and angels, that he has not called himself their God in vain. " But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." Not a city of inspection ! Many— (Eternal God ! will it be any of this company ? — ) will... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pages
...which hath foundations, whose builder and Maker is God."" Of others eminent for piety it is said, *' They desire a better country, that is, an heavenly...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city."' What must that abode be, which a God of love provides for those he condescends to own ! How... | |
 | Robert Hawker - 1831 - 732 pages
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 | 1831 - 982 pages
...of them, and embracing them, and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth ; " " both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, city." (Heb. xi. 13, 16.) And Moses also " had respect unto the recompence of the reward." (verse 26.)... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. //.-. xi. 13—16. GENESIS [AM 2*15. CHAPTER L. 1 AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1832 - 168 pages
...mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.!' The faith, and hope, and desire, of the patriarchs, are here represented as having for their... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...minduil of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city." This fine passage shows us that Jacob was a pilgrim, not only or principally because of his... | |
 | Charles Eyre - 1832 - 482 pages
...death, thus declaring plainly that they are not of this world, that they seek another country, that they desire a better country, that is an heavenly,...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city ; forbear then to think lightly of your brethren, who are on the road to glory, whose faces are... | |
 | Cornelius Ives - 1832 - 420 pages
...they " came out, they might have had opportunity " to have returned. But now they desire a bet** ter country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore " God is...called their God : " for He hath prepared for them a city." As to the truth of the Apostle's statement, that God, whose name is Jehovah, is not ashamed... | |
 | John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 pages
...conversation is in heaven. They are not of this world ; for they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. They are bending their steps to the country... | |
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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
