 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 426 pages
...practice of the very first principles of religion. For, " he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." And it is diligently seeking him that they hate and set themselves against. 4. Do not they judge heaven... | |
 | William BISHOP (Rector of Ufton Nervet.) - 1825 - 364 pages
...faith (or belief) it is impossible to please God : for he that cometh to him must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him"." This is so agreeable to common sense, that no argument can be required to make it clearer. The natural... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...Without faith it is impossible to please God ; for he that cometh to God,- must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." The perfections of God may be proved from the nature and reason of things, Rom. i. 20. " The invisible... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 650 pages
...prayer, which without it is but vain babbling. Whoever cometh unto God hereby, ' must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.' (2dly.) There is in it also a representation of our wills, affections, and desires of our souls, unto... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 610 pages
...and much more for a Christian, to work righteousness without believing in some degree ' that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him,' as well as the punisher of them that presumptnously sin against him. — ' For without faith it is... | |
 | Rev. Tomas Scott (Rector of Ashton Sandford, Bucks.), Thomas Chalmers - 1826 - 592 pages
...without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh unto God, must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Hence it must follow, either that none but the regenerate are capable even of that lowest exercise... | |
 | James Sherman - 1826 - 188 pages
...Athenians, who erected an altar to the unknown God. " He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Next to the belief of his existence this must follow. " There are three that bear record in heaven;... | |
 | 1827 - 438 pages
...consider that they do evil." " He that cometh to God, and will walk with him, must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him: God is with you while you are with him, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you." " Up, and be... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - 1827 - 506 pages
...and circumstances in which they lived and acted. " He who cometh unto God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." By placing this the most clear and simple of all kinds of faith at the beginning of his argument, it... | |
 | 1827 - 750 pages
..." without faith it a impossible to please God ; for he that comelh to God, must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Although there is some diversity of opinion, and not a little darkness, respecting the interpretation... | |
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But without faith it is impossible to please God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 
