| Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...sin, and shame, and sorrow, to be lost ! POWER WITH GOD. A FRAGMENT FROM A DISCOURSE BY THE EDITOR. "As a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."— GIN. xxii. 28. THE GODLY MAN HAS POWER WITH GOD. Would that this truth were engraven indelibly upon... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...but I found him (Christ) 82 GENESIS 27 bless me. And be said unto him, What is thy name ? And he 28 said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called...Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and 29 with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, whom my soul lovetb ; I held him, and... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...this man is a sinner. John ix. 24. God of /imp/.] Thy name (mid the angel that wrestled with Jacob) kingdom to Israel f And he said unto them, It is not...for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Oe. xxxii. 28. And he (Jacob) erected there an altar, and called it, Elelohu Israel (i. ,-. God, the... | |
| William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...bid us break off — And we must "stand perfect and complete in all the will of God." JUNB 8.— '" And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he Baid unto him, What ia thy name ? And he said, Jacob." — Gen. xxxii. 26, 27. JACOB now, if not before,... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1832 - 556 pages
...have here Abraham, the father of the faithful. We have Jacob, of whom it is written, in God's word, " as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." (Gen. 32. 28.) Nay even in the four cases already mentioned as affording either objection to the Jews,... | |
| Richard Parkinson - Sermons, English - 1832 - 380 pages
...Jacob" (which signifies a supplanter), "but Israel" (which means a Prince); " for," #dds the angel, " as a Prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed V And when Naomi returned to her native country in the midst of affliction, she said to the men of... | |
| Thomas Watson - Sermons, English - 1833 - 794 pages
...argumentative in prayer; and he got not only a new blessing but a new name, v. 28, " Thy name ehall be called no more Jacob, but Israel ; for as a prince hast thou power with God, and hast prevailed." God loves to be overcome with strength of argument. Thus, when we come to God in prayer... | |
| John Fletcher - Methodist Church - 1833 - 636 pages
...wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day : and he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh : and he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me : and he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, bi|t Israel, for as a prince hast tliou power with God and... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1834 - 1038 pages
...let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, Whatts thy name? And he said Jacob. 28 And he said, ' Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,...power with God and ' with men, and hast prevailed. 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, k Wherefore K it that... | |
| Thomas Bilby - 1834 - 188 pages
...they called Israelites ?—C. After the new name given to Jacob; " Thy name shall be no more called Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast prevailed." Gen. xxxii. 28. T. How came the Israelites in Egypt? - C. They went with Jacob, when Joseph was governor.... | |
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