 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...highest evidence of his supreme love to his maker. God says to him. " Now I know that thou fearest me, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." Our Savior made obedience to him, the infallible test and highest evidence of true love to him. " If... | |
 | 1826 - 104 pages
...parents, the more acceptable they were to God ? " Now I know thou fearest God (as God is made to say) seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." It was on the same plan of piety that Jephtha sacrificed his daughter; and the priest, very piously,... | |
 | John Marsh - 1827 - 498 pages
...and lifted the knife to slay him, when the Angel of the Lord interposed and said, " Now I knowtiiou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." It was a glorious exhibition of faith ; for which God again confirmed to him, his exceeding great and... | |
 | John Marsh - 1828 - 674 pages
...son, and lifted tin; knife to slay him, when the Angel of the Lord interposed and said, " Now I know thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." It was a glorious exhibition of faith ; for which God again confirmed to him his exceeding great and... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1829 - 442 pages
...am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now J know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld...me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns : and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered... | |
 | James Marsh - 1830 - 608 pages
...succeed it. After this clear infallible testimony of his sincerity, the angel declared from heaven, "Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast...not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." And it is said concerning the followers of the Lam!), that " they loved not their lives unto the death."... | |
 | James Marsh - 1830 - 946 pages
...succeed it. After this clear infallible testimony of his sincerity, the angel declared from heaven, "Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast...not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." And it is said concerning the followers of the Lamb, that " they loved not their lives unto the death."... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...dispositions. " By faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac." " By this I know that thoufenrest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me." Heb. xi. 17. Gen. xxii. 12. The words of the Lord Jesus to the apostle of the Gentiles shows the holy... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 pages
...unequivocal token of your filial affection. ' Now I know that thou lovest me,' said he to Abraham, ' seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.' It requires the same kind of grace, if not the same degree of grace, to resign a child willingly to... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1830 - 558 pages
...speaks the language of the children of men: thus, Gen. xxii. 12. Now I know that thou fearest Qod, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from, me. God delights to call forth his champions to meet with great temptations, to make them bear crosses... | |
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Abraham, Abraham : and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. 
