 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 498 Seiten
...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 - 632 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 Seiten
...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." Heb. vi. 13—20. God does nothing in vain: and therefore, though mutual stipulation between the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 426 Seiten
...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: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast." If there be any man that... | |
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1826 - 336 Seiten
...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 - 462 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 608 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Susan Huntington - 1826 - 422 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 420 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
