 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...and this enmity runs in the blood ; and it is transmitted with it from generation to generation : " As then he that was born after the flesh persecuted...that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now." Gal. 4 : 29. Mark, so it was, and so it is still. " Cain's club is still carried up and down crimsoned... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pages
...promised to Abraham in that everlasting covenant which God made with him. Hence saith the apostle, As then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted...that was born after the spirit, even so it is now. IV. The remonstrance of Sarah and the ejection of Ishmael. The derision and contempt with which Ishmael... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...be sure to find it. Nor let them wonder or be offended at this, for from the beginning it was so. " He that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit." And every believer must bear the cross ; if not Abets cross, yet Isaac's ; if not martyrdom, yet mocking.... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...than she which hath an husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted...that -was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. so Nevertheless, what saitli the scripture ? Cast out the bondwoman and her son : for the son of the... | |
 | William Huntington - Arminianism - 1802 - 522 pages
...servants, " Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father yc will do," John viii. 44. " But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was bom after the Spirit, even so it is now," Gal. iv. 29. ? Thirdly, Corrupt nature, which is the worst... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...than she which hath an husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted...that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what saith the Scripture ? Cast out the bond-woman and her son : for the son of the... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...than she which hath an husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then, he that was born after the flesh, persecuted...that •was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless, what saith the scripture ? Cast out the bond-woman and her son : for the son of the... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 444 pages
...reflection in Gal. iv. 29. for as then (speaking of Isaac and Ishmael) he that was born after tJieJiesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now. God's favourites arc often the world's laughing stock : but let then) not think that any strange thing... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1805 - 504 pages
...was, Sarah sazo him mocking. And as he that was born after the flesh did then in this manner persecute him that was born after the Spirit*, even so it is now. And thus are reproaches mentioned amongst the sufferings of Christ in the gospel, and not as the least;... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - Baptists - 1807 - 546 pages
...wonderfully pre-~ served from their enemies than he. Speaking of Ishmael and Isaac, the apostle observes, " As then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted...that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now ; " and so it wil'. be as long as a spark of the old haired to God and godliness continues in the world.... | |
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But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 
