 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 604 pages
...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." Agreeably to this account, if we look into the story of those friends and favourites of heaven,... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...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." Agreeably to this account, if we look into the story of those friends and favourites of heaven,... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1819 - 166 pages
...that is, an heavenly. Wherefore. *.L»ke xx, 37, 38, Sc« WJUTBT on the place... God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city." (Heb. xi. 16.) — In short, if God is the eternal, indivisible sum of all good, whenever he promises to be the portion... | |
 | John Sargent - 1820 - 506 pages
...assistance, I preached on Heb. xi, 16: — '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.' On repeating the text a second time, I could scarcely refrain from bursting into tears. For... | |
 | Thomas Robbins - 1820 - 186 pages
...testified of them, in the same chapter, " 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 cjty." He that had prepared a cily for the ancient saints, is the same holy Saviour that said to his... | |
 | 1820 - 190 pages
...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 I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...assistance, I preached on Hebrews xi. l6. " But now they seek 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." On repeating the text I could scarcely refrain from bursting into tears, for the Mount and St.... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...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. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 pages
...assistance, I preached on Hebrews xi. lo. " But now they seek 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." On repeating the text I could scarcely refrain from bursting into tears, for the Mount and St.... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 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 these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promite. Rom. i.... | |
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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. 
