 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 568 pages
...declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to...returned : But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly." — The respect which a godly person hath to heaven may be compared to the respect which... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...plainly, that they seek a coun" try. And truly, if they had been mindful of that " country from whence they came out, they might " have had opportunity to...returned; but now " they desire a better country, that is an heavenly : " wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their " God : for he hath prepared for them... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1818 - 490 pages
...plainly, that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to...returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly.' Hence it appears, to adopt the language of the Church, that all these fathers, martyrs,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...plainly, that they seek a coun" try. And truly, if they had been mindful of that " country from whence they came out, they might " have had opportunity to...; but now " they desire a better country, that is an heavenly : " wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their " God : for he hath prepared for them... | |
 | John Venn - Sermons - 1818 - 424 pages
...td have the blessings of this life, " he might have had opportunity to return ; hut now he desires a better country, that is, a heavenly ; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called his God, for he hath prepared for him a city.*' .En- * But did not God afterwards give the desctndants... | |
 | Missions - 1820 - 190 pages
...declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to...returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly ; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to...returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...patriarch : — " He looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God," — " But now they desire a better country, that is a heavenly ; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city."* And also Paul's contrast between the " Jerusalem... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 pages
...mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might * Chap. «. 8. have had opportunities to have returned. But now they desire a better country , that is, an heavenly : wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1823 - 610 pages
...plainly that they seek a country. And, truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to...returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a... | |
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For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an... 
