 | Stephen Charnock - 1699 - 226 pages
...moment? What is the end of this oath ? Compare it with, For men verily srcear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. JVherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Robert Barclay - 1737 - 614 pages
...proves Oaths, ufed among Men, when, he writes, Heb. Vt. 16. For Men verily fwear by the greater, and an Oath for Confirmation is to them an End of all Strife. But there are as many Contejls, Fallacies and Differences at this Time, as there were ever : Therefore... | |
 | John Hutchinson - 1749 - 498 pages
...as 'tis beautifully exprefled by St. Paul, Heb. vi. 1 6. For Men verily fwear by the greater : and an Oath for Confirmation is to them an end of all Strife. Wherein God •willing more abundantly to Jhew unto the Heirs of the Promife, the immutability of his... | |
 | Martin Madan - 1772 - 106 pages
...my Father's Houfe: And David fware unto Saul. Heb. vi. 15. For Men, verily fwear by tbe greater, and an Oath for Confirmation, is to them an End of all Strife. 3 Jer. iv. 2. And thou /halt fwear the Lord liveth, in Truth, in Judgment, and in Righuoufnefs. APPENDIX.... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - 538 pages
...happened about the .beguuiingoi the sixteenth century. t Usher de Christ. Ecc. success. & sta(u. •I an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all , strife." Other scriptures are alleged by them to the same purport. Men who held these things should be acquitted... | |
 | 1806 - 504 pages
...blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying J will multiply tbet For uien verily swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing to shew to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1804 - 376 pages
...that fweareth in the Earth, fhall fwear by the God of Truth. For Men verily fwear by the greater ; and an Oath for Confirmation is to them an End of all Strife. d The Lord fware, and will not repent : And becaufe he could fware by no greater, he fwarc by himfelf.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...founded not only open the word, but equally upon the oath, of God. "Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife, Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | William Paley - 1806 - 502 pages
...judicially, without any mark of censure or disapprobation : " Men verily swear by the greater, and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all Strife." Upon the strength of these reasons, we explain our Saviour's words to relate, not to judicial oaths,... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
