 Wherein God, willing more 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 God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled...  The Philosophical and Theological Works of ... - Side 311af John Hutchinson - 1749Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1819 - 488 sider
...thou shall swear, the Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness0. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife''. SECT. 2. In these acts the strictest regard to truth is. required by the all-seeing God. Thus saith... | |
 | 1834 - 614 sider
...endured for a while, he obtained the promise. For verily men awear by the greater, and au oath /or confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the h«ira of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath : That by... | |
 | 1820 - 230 sider
...multiply thee, and so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to...all strife ; wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. That by two... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 320 sider
...because he could swear by no greater, he " sware by himself; for men verily sware by the great*' er : and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end "...all strife. Wherein God willing more abundantly " to shew unto the heirs of promise theimmiitability of " his counsel confirmed it by an oath, that, by... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - 1821 - 392 sider
...because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself: for men verily swear by lhe greater: nnd an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 sider
...multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation is to...all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath : that by two... | |
 | 1849 - 700 sider
...sufficiently accounts for the fact of thcir universal occurrence. (Heb. vi. 16.) " for men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." Fallen as man is, numberless are the instances which show demonstratively that man was made for religion.... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 sider
...And though they say, The Lord liveth ; surely they swear falsely. Heb. vi. 16. For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Ueut. xxLx. 10. 12. Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes,... | |
 | 1823 - 886 sider
...the custom of swearing judicially without any mark of censure or disapprobation : ' Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." But though a nation has an undoubted right to require the security of an oath upon occasions of real... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 sider
...custom of swearing judicially, without any mark of censure or disapprobation : '' Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." Upon the strength of these reasons, we explain our Saviour's words to relate, not to judicial oaths,... | |
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