| Edward Mitchell - Sermons, American - 1833 - 230 pages
...sufficient to establish any thing, we may be asked, why then did he swear ? We find the answer given. That by two immutable things in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. (Heb. vi. 18.) The promise is renewed to Isaac, in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1833 - 230 pages
...abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us ; which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast." " Now to him that is of power... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1833 - 574 pages
...abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath : that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. THE multiplying of oaths is a dreadful snare to the consciences of men ; and a light method of administering... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Holy Spirit - 1834 - 244 pages
...abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast'. This is the great charter of the... | |
| Francis Close - Sermons, English - 1834 - 462 pages
...the Father's hand I These exceeding great and precious promises God hath " confirmed by an oath, that by two immutable things in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us : which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedAnd has God declared of these promises,... | |
| Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 pages
...abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that... | |
| Methodist Church - 1834 - 544 pages
...to show unto the heirs o'f promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath : that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,' Heb. vi, 13-18. Now turn to the texts numbered 1st and 2d ; there you find the promise, or counsel... | |
| Ezra Stiles Ely, Abel Charles Thomas - Future punishment - 1835 - 302 pages
...abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath : that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us," Heb. vi. 13—18. That the language of the promise conveys the idea of universality, you will not be... | |
| Christian biography - 1835 - 434 pages
...is also confirmed by an oath. And, " because he could swear by BO greater, be sware by himself: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us." Number 89. — His, in the resemblance it bears to his own. Christians are "partakers of the divine... | |
| Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...blessings of the covenant are secured to believers by the word and the oath of the God of truth; "that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible...for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us : which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that... | |
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