 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - Počet stránok 436
...two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us !' In the history before us, God speaks generally to the heart. Christ does not say, in this case,... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - Počet stránok 498
...decree and oath], wherein it is impossible for God to falsify, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, Heb. vi. 17, 18. Now, as Abram literally set forward from the land of his nativity ; so, in a figurative... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1825 - Počet stránok 632
...to teach us some important parts of our duty, which we are too apt to overlook. — If indeed we " have "fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before " us " in the gospel ; if we have found " peace and "joy in believing," and " have tasted that the... | |
 | Josiah Hopkins - 1825 - Počet stránok 322
...immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us." b The express object according to this passage for which the Almighty condescended to confirm... | |
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1826 - Počet stránok 336
...know, that they are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity, and persuade them to fly for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before them in the gospel. THE GOSPEL SUSTAINS THE LAW. MATTHEW V. 17. " Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets... | |
 | Thomas Hannam - 1826 - Počet stránok 462
...also." John xiv. 19. He is theirs. This is a source of " strong consolation to the heirs of promise, who have fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before them ¡"who can say " my beloved, my Saviour, my Redeemer, is mine." Cant. ii. 16. He is theirs, whose riches... | |
 | Susan Huntington - 1826 - Počet stránok 422
...been favoured. My mind is weak, and I cannot direct and fix my thoughts as I once could. But I think I have. fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before me in the precious Gospel; and He, who is the foundation of that hope, will never forsake me." Then,... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - Počet stránok 608
...judgment of it to the church of God. 4. It is expressed by flying for refuge, Heb. vi. 1 1 . ' Who have fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before us.' Prov. xviii. 10. Hence some have defined faith to be 'perfugium animaj/ the flight of the soul... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - Počet stránok 420
...oath the same,) " in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us." (Heb. vi. 13, &c.) What is the ground of this strong consolation and hope ? Jlns. The promise... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1827 - Počet stránok 288
...as there is in it such a fulness of merit, it must excite the strongest confidence in them who flee to lay hold on the hope set before them in the gospel. 4. As nothing less than this infinitely meritorious sacrifice could have been sufficient for the redemption... | |
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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. " That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled... 
