 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pages
...confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth ; 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.""' Cherish the views these holy men professed. You, if a Christian indeed, are but a traveller... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 376 pages
...patriarchs, of whom he saith in the same place, " 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 " (Heb.xi. 16). And the Apostle, in writing to the Philippians, made high account of this, when... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...that he has not called himself their God in vain. " 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." Not a city of inspection ! Many— (Eternal God ! will it be any of this company ? — ) will... | |
 | William Mathers - Political science - 1831 - 214 pages
...things, declare plainly, that they seek a country ; 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. — 89. 40. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pages
...of them, and embracing them, and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth ; " " both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, city." (Heb. xi. 13, 16.) And Moses also " had respect unto the recompence of the reward." (verse 26.)... | |
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 610 pages
...faith of the elders, and of Enoch, Abel, and of Abraham, and these by faith sought a country that is heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared a city for them ; and such went under mockings, stonings, scourgings and imprisonings ; and wandered... | |
 | John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 pages
...conversation is in heaven. They are not of this world ; for 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, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. They are bending their steps to the country... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 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 hear how our Saviour argues with the Sadducees : " Now that the dead are raised, even Moses... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Infant baptism - 1832 - 168 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.!' The faith, and hope, and desire, of the patriarchs, are here represented as having for their... | |
 | Cornelius Ives - Sermons, English - 1832 - 420 pages
...might have had opportunity " to have returned. But now they desire a bet** ter country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore " God is not ashamed to be called their God : " for He hath prepared for them a city." As to the truth of the Apostle's statement, that God, whose name is Jehovah, is not ashamed... | |
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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. 
