 | 874 pages
...great pain, and causes much heaviness in their heart. They feel now as St. Paul did, when he said, ' Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.' Sin is no subject of pleiisantry or mocking to the godly person ; for it grieves him and leads him... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...as to them. It is, therefore, a most important and desirable event- Paul viewed it in this light ; " Brethren, my heart's desire, and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." He says again, " I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, that blindness... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pages
...Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence : and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For 1 bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ( 3 For they... | |
 | 1825 - 422 pages
...awaited them ! could he but persuade them to embrace that Saviour, whom they had despised and crucified ! Brethren, my heart's desire, and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. I could wish, that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 972 pages
...written.— Isa. XXfiil. Ifi. Ashamed Marg. " confounded." 2K2 The righteousness] ROMANS. CHAP. X B1 p where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : 27 Thou oughtest therefore 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 472 pages
...Gibeonites....Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.' Rom. x. 2. 'I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.' Thirdly, a too fiery zeal. Jonah iv. 1 — 3. Luke ix. 54. ' wilt thou that we command fire to come... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1826 - 360 pages
...known that there was no pro- ' priety in the passionate expression which begins the tenth chapter : " Brethren, my heart's " desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that " they might be saved." It is evident, therefore, that the thing which " Israel sought in vain" was the honour of remaining... | |
 | 1832 - 442 pages
...them that heard him. Thus he gives utterance to the earnest concern he felt for the salvation of his brethren — " my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel, is, that they might be saved." Again, " I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence ; and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for...have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness,... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. k ROM. x. 2: For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 1 COH. ii. 8: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have... | |
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Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 
