 | Apologetics - 1800 - 458 pages
...declare plainly, tint *' they feefc 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 ddire a better " country, that is, an heavenly." ' If the land of Canaan had bceri all their view,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1801 - 374 pages
...declare plainly, that they " feek a country. And truly if they had. " been mindful of that country, from " whence they came out, they might have " had..." now they defire a better country, that is, *' an heavenly6," Hence it appears, to adopt the language of the Church, that " alf thefe fathers, " martyrs,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...things, declare plainly that they feek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity...they defire a better country, that is, an heavenly i wherefore God is not afhamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city." There... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - Theology, Doctrinal - 1804 - 462 pages
...things, declare plainly, that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of the country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now, they desire a better country ; that is, an heavenly. Wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...things, declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned : 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly ; wherefore God is not ashamed to be... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins - 1804 - 404 pages
...Chaklees, by the i^th verfe, where the Apoftle fays, " and truly if they had been mindful of that country " from whence they came out, they might have had " opportunity to have returned." It was they that up.. on God's call left their own country. Two things may be obferved in the text;.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1808 - 326 pages
...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 seek a better country ; that is an heavenly, Heb. xi. 14, 15, 16. That is to say, those holy men could... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...upon their glorious home in heaven. XI. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country Jrom whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. It was not in respect of Mesopotamia, whence they came, that they accounted themselves strangers ;... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 540 pages
...things, declure 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. heavenly." So also the respect which a godly person hath to heaven,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 520 pages
...Chaldees, by the 15th verse, where the apostle says, " and truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned." It was they that upon God's call left their own country. Two things may be observed in the text. 1.... | |
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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... 
