| Ralph Erskine - 1795 - 518 pages
...us. This victory of faith you fee expreffed, verfe 19. " And being not weak in faith, he confidered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadnefs of Sarah's womb." Thus it is with true faith in the divine promife ; whatever the man beholds... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 738 pages
...rejoice with joy unfpsakabU, and full of glory. Rom. iv. 18,— -21. Abraham againft hope believed ii hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was fpoken, So fliall thy feed be. And being not weak in tail:-, he conlidered not his own body DOW dead,... | |
| 1805 - 590 pages
...made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but of one. And to thy seed which is Christ. Rom. iv. 18. Who against hope believed in hope that he might become...according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. As Isaac, who was born after the promise, and his numerous posterity, represented the ultimate objects... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...believed Holy Ghost, wbieVis given unto 1 8 Who against hope in hope, that he might become die faiher of many nations ; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy* seed be. 19 And, being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 488 pages
...their existence, and brings them forward to the Yiew of the mind as present realities. Thus " Abraham believed " in hope, that he might become the father of many nations."— These nations, though they had no present existence, yet the faith of the patriarch was so firm in... | |
| 1804 - 438 pages
...become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. *• 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his...years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith., giving glory... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were : 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become...according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And, being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1806 - 338 pages
...he might become the father ef many nations ; according to that which was fpoken, So fhall thy feed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not...he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadnefs of Sarah's womb. He ftaggered not at the promifc of God through unbelief; but was ftrong in... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 pages
...cxercifed to difcern both good and evil. Rom. 4. 19, 20. And being not weak in faith, he conlidered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadncfs of Sarah's womh ! He daggered not at the promife ot God through unbelief; but was ftrong in... | |
| Samuel Austin - 1807 - 344 pages
...the dead, and calleth those things which be not, as though they were ; who against hope believed ir> hope ; that he might become the father of many nations ; according to that which is written, so shall thy seed be." Here the promise is shewn to extend to a ^ secondary object. This... | |
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