 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 618 pages
...greatly confirmed, we have strong consolation and great hope? The apostle tells us, verses 13, 14, " For, when God made promise to Abraham, because he...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." This promise is chiefly fulfilled in the great increase of the church of God by the Messiah, and particularly... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 630 pages
...greatly confirmed, we have strong consolation and great hope? The apostle tells us, verses 13, 14, " For, when God made promise to Abraham, because he...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." This promise is chiefly fulfilled in the great increase of the church of God by the Messiah, and particularly... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1830 - 300 pages
...exhortation to " give all diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end," the apostle says ; — " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and \nultiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.... | |
 | 1830 - 400 pages
...See Psalm Ixxxix. 29 — 33. Isaiah liv. 7—10. Mai. iii. 6. Moreover he bound himself by an oath. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself. And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, by myself have... | |
 | 1832 - 460 pages
...Canaan for an inheritace, Exod. vi. 8. The Apostle Paul, referring to this oath in Heb. vi. 13, says, " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself; for men verily swear by a greater ; and aa. oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife,"... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 618 pages
...we might have stronger consolation still, he hath bound himself by his oath. Hebrews vi. 13, &c. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, heswareby himself; saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | Ellet Joseph Waggoner - 1999 - 174 pages
...they come to him, and find pardon, peace, and righteousness. THE OATH OF GOD. There is more to this. "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself." This was an oath for the confirmation of the promise, which was in itself immutable. Moreover, the... | |
 | J. Dwight Pentecost - 1999 - 212 pages
...promise to Abraham [and the promise was a spoken word], because he could swear by no greater, he s ware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee" (6:13-14). The writer to the Hebrews said when God gave His word to Abraham He affirmed the word with... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - 2000 - 264 pages
...of redeemed souls— saved under his Spirit-filled ministry. III. My Anchor Holds JOE HENRY HANKINS "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he...greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing ! will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 2000 - 110 pages
..."For 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 show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of the counsel, confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for... | |
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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. 
