 | William Mason - Devotional calendars - 1765 - 510 pages
...may incessantly flow. " Thus wisdom is justified of all her children," Matt. xi. 19. AUGUST 11. — Now I know thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. — Gen. xxii. 12. So spake Jesus to his friend of old. What ! did not God know that Abraham feared... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1815
...offered. And what sacrifices did he offer ? Ans. see Gen. xx. 12. Now I know that thou fearest me, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me ; he had but one dearly beloved son, and he offered him to God ; and then said God, I know thou fearest... | |
 | Missions - 1807
...God says, "Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing 'unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." So we must manifest that, we fear him — by our conduct. But saints also obey the voice of his servant.... | |
 | George Burder - 1835
...Abraham's faith is proved, 'even the faith that works by love.' ' Now I know,' saith the Lord, ' that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.' And may we not say, Now we know and are sure ; we cannot admit a doubt of it ; that God loves sinful... | |
 | Herman Witsius - Covenant theology - 1803 - 470 pages
...justified by his works. For, when he offered up his son to God, then God said to him, " now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me," Gen. xxii. 12. And James insists upon it, that this last justification is so necessary to believers,... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1803
...clouds, saying ** Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any tiring to him, for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me." Hereupon the joyful patriarch offered a ram, which was caught by its horns in a thicket, in stead of... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Sermons - 1804
...upon a cross, that we might be recovered to eternal life? " Now, know I," saith God to Abraham, " that thou fearest God, seeing thou " hast not withheld thy son, thine only son> " from me." But Abraham owed his son td God; God owed us nothing. Abraham had received his son from God by an extraordinary... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805
...he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God» seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from, me I thou hast given me the highest proof of thy faith and obe» dience, and sAottm to me, and to all... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1805
...the children of men: thus", Now I know that thou fearest God, s Psal. Ixxviii. p. b Gen. xxii. 12. seeing thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only Son from me. God delights to call forth his champions to meet with great temptations, to make them bear crosses... | |
 | Herman Witsius - Antinomianism - 1807 - 344 pages
...ago been imputed to him. And hence, his God speaking after the manner of men, said, " Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me," Gen. xxii. 12. compare Deut. viii. 2. 2 Chr. xxxii. 31. That the justification upon which James insists,... | |
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