 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 pages
...opinion of this writer, the animal sacrifice—the words are remarkable.—By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which...witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts*—the words here translated a more excellent sacrifice, are in an early version rendered a much... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1825 - 442 pages
...intended a similar course of argument to be applied to him. For of Abel, as of Enoch, he says, that he " obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts."" But without pleasing God it is impossible to obtain witness from him that we are righteous ; and "... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...this preference is stated by the Apostle, ii. the following passage: " By faith, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which...that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ; and by it, he, being dead, yet speakethV Thus,in the first ages of the world, the atonement, in its... | |
 | 1871 - 592 pages
...between the sacrifice of Cain and Abel ? St. Paul says, in Heb. xi., it was " by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which...that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts," &c. But faith in what ? Are we not warranted in supposing his faith rested on the promise given to... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 640 pages
...had not respect.' The ground whereof the apostle declares, Heb. xi. 4. ' By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which...that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts.' In the observation of that first institution given to the church in the state of the fall, did Abel... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1826 - 356 pages
...in trouble. The most eminent servants of God have excelled in this grace. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which...that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and, by it, he, being dead, yet speakelh. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death.... | |
 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - 1826 - 170 pages
...transcribe the following interpretation of it by a New Testament. The text is " By faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testi" The word J"INtOn is sometimes used to signify a sin-offering. But in this place I should rather... | |
 | 1852 - 1174 pages
...cither pleasing or despising. In the epistle to the Hebrews it is said, " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous " (Heb. xi. 4). Righteous before he offered his gift, as his sacrifice testified ; for God accepted... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which...that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ; and by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death;... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1827 - 340 pages
...occupies a conspicuous place in the apostolic catalogue of recorded worthies. By faith, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which...that he was righteous ; God testifying of his gifts : and, by it, he being dead yet speaketh *. The word Faith, we have established, as employed by the... | |
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By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 
