 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 pages
...Jesus Christ alone fulfils, is a third character of dignity. " When God made promise to Abra^ ham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely, blessing, I will bless Ihee," chap. ri. 14'. " The priests," under the law, " were made without an oath : but this with an... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 340 pages
...but absolute. (l For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater He swore by Himself, saying, SURELY blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. — For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of _ all strife.... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 416 pages
...upon Himself the whole charge of their salvation. These promises were not conditional but absolute. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater He swore by Himself, saying, SURELY blessing I will bless theef and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | 1837 - 714 pages
...withdrawn or withholden, it is inconceivable how an unwavering confidence can be placed in its character. ' God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his council, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God... | |
 | John Murray - 1813 - 438 pages
...if we consult our luminous commentator, the apostle Paul, we shall hear him affirm, Hebrews, vi, " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, " Saying, surely blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee.... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pages
...which shall crown patient perseverence in search of honor, immortality, and eternal life. " For 4' when God made promise to Abraham, because " he could swear by no greater, he sware by him" self, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, " and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so»... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 pages
...people that are in such a case, yea, happy " is that people whose God is the Lord." When " God gave promise to Abraham, because " He could swear by no greater, He sware by himself ;" when he would bless his people, because He could give them no greater, He gave himself. They are... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pages
...epistle to the Hebrews, Ch. vi. 13, 14. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swearby no greater, he sware by himself, saying: Surely, blessing...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." For certain; therefore, this was the oath of God Almighty, the one -living and true God, and the Creator... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...the joyful expectation that God would fulfil the promise he had made. And to this we are told, that because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely, blessing I will bless tjiee, and multiplying 1 will multiply thy seed, &c. Thus adding his oath to his promise — that by... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1815 - 644 pages
...shall all the families of the earth he blessed." Gen. xxii. 18. The apostle tells us", " Because God could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, surely blessing I will bless thee," &c. Keb.'vi. And Zecharias, tft6 father of John the baptist, in his solemn hymn of praise for the advent... | |
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 
