 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...Pilgrims, on the Earth; and we feek and defire a better Countrey, that is a heavenly ; and we look for a City, which hath Foundations, whofe Builder and Maker is God. a Except ye fee Signs and Wonders, ye will not believe; but blefted are they that have not feen, and... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1721 - 542 pages
...Tabernacles with Ifaac and, Jacob, the Heirs with him of the fame Promife; he adds immediately after, For he looked for a City which hath foundations, whofe Builder and, Maker is God; and a little after, God is not afbamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a City,... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1730 - 434 pages
...this prefent World, as mowed plainly that they fought a better country, that is, an heavenly ; Looking for a City which hath foundations, whofe Builder and Maker is God. They endured by Faith, as feeing Him 'who is Invifible ; and often were tortured, not accepting Deliverance,... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1743 - 500 pages
...Blame, to have had Refpect, in all this, to the Recompence of Reward, Heb. xi. 26 ; and Abraham, that he looked for a City which hath Foundations, whofe Builder and Maker is God, ver. 10, .and- the Martyrs of old, that they endured what they did, in hopes of obtaining a better... | |
 | John Jackson - 1745 - 140 pages
...Promife, as in aftrange Country -with Ifaae and Jacob, the Heirs with him of the fame Promife, look d for a City which hath Foundations^ whofe Builder and Maker is God, ver. 9, 10. That is evidently, they look'd for not an earthly but an heavenly City or State ; not in... | |
 | United Brethren in Christ - 1754 - 828 pages
...ijaa'f and Jacob, the heirs with worthy :) they wandered in defarts, him of the fame promife. For he looked for a city which hath foundations : whofe builder and maker is God. By faith Mo/et, when he was come not the promife ; and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 482 pages
...country,"that is, " an heavenly," and with blefled Abraham, the father of the faithful, they "• look for a city which hath foundations, whofe " builder and maker is GOD," as it is faid of that good patriarch at the tenth verfe of this chapter. It is very frequent, not only... | |
 | Charles Chauncy - 1762 - 70 pages
...appearing/thegofpcl day. And hence the author -of the epi{lle to the Hebrews declares, | that.Abraham" looked for a city which hath foundations, whofe builder...fame city is here meant which the apoftle John calls " the new Jerufalem," and faw-in his vifions, " coming down from God out of heaven." Nor could Abraham... | |
 | John Tillotson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1772 - 410 pages
...feveral times in fcripture reprefented to us under this notion of a city. It is faid of Abraham, that lie looked for a. city -which hath foundations ; whofe builder and maker is God, Heb. xi. 10. It is called likewife the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufaletn, Heb. xii. 22.... | |
 | John Muirhead - 1782 - 706 pages
...country, dwelling in tabernacles with Ifaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the fame promife : For lie looked for a city which hath foundations, whofe builder and maker is God*." Though New Teftament believers are not always bound to leave their native country literally : Yet one... | |
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For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whofe builder and maker is God. 
