 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...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 ; for he hath prepared for them a city." Finally. Forget not the Admonition of the Saviour : " Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation."... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...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: for he hath prepared for them a city." Our Saviour also allowed him to be in glory ; and even represented heaven by a union and intimacy... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they 16 desire a better country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac : and he that had 17 received the promises... | |
 | Burton W. Carr - Religions - 1829 - 316 pages
...look forward ; and what the apostle says with regard to the patriarch will apply to all his people; "wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." — What an intimation of his goodness is here! He would be ashamed of the relation into which... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 544 pages
...out, they might have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city;" ver. 13 — 16. It was the sorest kind of banishment that the saints endured, that is mentioned,... | |
 | James Parsons - Sermons, English - 1830 - 554 pages
...out, they might have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city."* And in the same manner, the emblem is adopted by the apostle as the appropriate representation... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 590 pages
...opportunities (and too many invitations) to return to it. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city ;" Heb. xi. 10. 13—16. This noble end ennobleth both the persons and conversations of believers.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 618 pages
...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, for he hath prepared for them a city." And the heavenly inheritance in the heavenly Canaan, or land of rest, which Christ has entered... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 630 pages
...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, .for he hath prepared for them a city." And the heavenly inheritance in the heavenly Canaan, or land of rest, which Christ has entered... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 606 pages
...best of worldly things will no longer satisfy them ; but they " desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city m." Now they are soundly persuaded that " there is a God, and that he is the rewarder of them... | |
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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
