 | Samuel Clarke - 1730 - 434 pages
...thofe things which are behind : After the example of the Patriarchs, Heb. xi. 15. who truly if they bad been mindful of That Country from whence they came...have had opportunity to have returned; But now they defire a better Country, that is, an Heavenly. Where, if We alfo have our converfation Now, we (hall... | |
 | 1737 - 468 pages
...confefled that they were ftrangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that fey a -f- country. 15 And truly if they had been mindful of that country,...out, they might have had opportunity to have returned : 16 But now they defire a better country, that is an heavenly : wherefore God is not alhamed to be... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 482 pages
...the apoftle, this cannot be the country from whence they firft came, Ur of the Chaldces, ver. i5. " And " truly, if they had been mindful of that country " from whence they came out, they might have had " an opportunity of returning thither." And therefore he concludes, that the country which they fought... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that fay fuch things declare plainly that they feek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country...they might have had opportunity to have returned. 1 6 But now they defire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not afhamed to be... | |
 | 1800 - 458 pages
...(i) does argue very forcibly, " Tba"t they who fay fuch things, declare plainly, tint *' they feefc a country. And truly if they had been mindful of <«...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,... | |
 | 1800 - 464 pages
...Apoftle (/) does argue very forcibly, " That they who fay fuch things, declare plainly, that " they feek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of "...country from whence they came out, they might have hard' 44 opporhiniiy to have returned: but now they defire a better rt country, that is, an heavenly."... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1801 - 374 pages
...ftrangers and pil" grims on the earth. For they, that fay " fuch things, declare plainly, that they " feek a country. And truly if they had. " been mindful of...had opportunity to have returned : but " now they defire a better country, that is, *' an heavenly6," Hence it appears, to adopt the language of the... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...in the world : Heb. xi. 14. — 16. " For they that fay fuch things, declare plainly that they feek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of...have had opportunity to have returned : But now they defire a better country, that is, an heavenly i wherefore God is not afhamed to be called their God... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins - 1804 - 404 pages
...came with them from Haran, and from Ur of the Chaklees, by the i^th verfe, where the Apoftle fays, " and truly if they had been mindful of that country...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;.... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country...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... | |
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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that... 
