 | Thomas Secker - 1792 - 718 pages
...be was able to perform*: and the event juftified his faith. Encouraged by this, he now a fecond time againft hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations^-. For that power, which nad quickened the barren aged womb, could alfo quicken the lifelefi dud. It was... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1793 - 384 pages
...and full of glory. Rom. iv. r3,— zi. Abraham againfI hope, believed in hope, that he might became the father of many nations ; according to that which was fpoken, So fhall thy feed be. And being not weak in faith, he confidered not his own body now dead, when he wss... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 738 pages
...rejoice with joy unfpsakabU, and full of glory. Rom. iv. 18,— -21. Abraham againft hope believed ii hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was fpoken, So fliall thy feed be. And being not weak in tail:-, he conlidered not his own body DOW dead, when he... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pages
...not, And to seeds, as of many; but of one. And to thy seed which is Christ. Rom. iv. 18. Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. As Isaac, who was born after the promise, and his numerous posterity,... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 488 pages
...their existence, and brings them forward to the Yiew of the mind as present realities. Thus " Abraham believed " in hope, that he might become the father of many nations."— These nations, though they had no present existence, yet the faith of the patriarch was so firm in... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were : 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations ; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And, being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead,... | |
 | 1804 - 300 pages
...itfelf, be beyond the fphere of what we call moral virtue. 3. Abraham believed in hope ngainJl hope, to become the father of many nations, according to that which was fpoken. He could find nothing about himfelf, whereon to found his hope cf becoming a father : but on the contrary,... | |
 | Samuel Austin - 1807 - 344 pages
...the dead, and calleth those things which be not, as though they were ; who against hope believed ir> hope ; that he might become the father of many nations ; according to that which is written, so shall thy seed be." Here the promise is shewn to extend to a ^ secondary object. This... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...dead, and, by his mighty word, is able to make those things to be which are not. IV. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spvken, So shall thy seed be. Who, when there was no cause or reason at all, in nature, why he should... | |
 | Edward Williams - 1809 - 604 pages
...believed, even GOD who quickeneth the dead, and calleth « thole things which be not as though they were. Who againft" ' hope believed in hope, that he might...' nations according to that which was fpoken, " So mall thy feed " be:" and b:ing not weak in faith, he confidercd not his own « body now dead, when... | |
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Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be. 
