| James Marsh - 1830 - 946 Seiten
...most grateful to them, is present, under view, within sight; and (as the apostle Rom. 8. 24.) Hope that is seen is not hope, for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for it ? But those whose more refined spirits, having received the first-fruits of the Holy Spirit of God,... | |
| Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...heirs through hope,' he tells us in another place ; and at the twenty-fourth verse of this chapter, ' we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope.' .Certainty shuts out hope : and since being children makes us only heirs through hope, it is plain,... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 574 Seiten
...justifying faith is often in the New Testament called by the name of hope ; as in Rom. viii. 24, 25, " For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hppe ; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for ? But if we hope for that we see not, then do... | |
| Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...heirs through hope,' he tells us in another place ; and at the twenty-fourth verse of this chapter, ' we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope.' Certainty shuts out hope : and since being1 children makes us only heirs through hope, it is plain,... | |
| John Platts - 1833 - 504 Seiten
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| Algernon Sydney Thelwall - 1831 - 152 Seiten
...Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen...seeth, why doth he yet hope for ? But if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." Rom. viii. 23—25. [It is a sad and most humiliating... | |
| John Davenant, Josiah Allport - 1831 - 642 Seiten
...hoped for. For the present possession of any thing is enjoyment, not hope. Whence the Apostle, Hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he hope for it ? Rom. viii. 24. Neither is it said that this prize is only offered to us, and proposed... | |
| Cyprian (st, bp. of Carthage.) - 1832 - 212 Seiten
...patience. The glory we aim at is not present, but future ; as the apostle hath well reminded us, saying, " We are saved by hope ; but hope that is seen is not...seeth, why doth he yet hope for ? But if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." Wherefore 'tis plainly necessary that we should... | |
| William Burkitt - 1832 - 908 Seiten
...first-fruits of the Spirit, do groan and wait fora much better state than what they do at present enjoy. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man eecth, why (loth he yet hope for ? 25 But it' we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience... | |
| Thomas Greenwood - 1832 - 64 Seiten
...triumphant state of the church in heaven : for faith is but " the evidence of things not seen ;" and " hope that is seen, is not hope ; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for ?" It clearly designates the maturity of the church militant, which St. Paul thus intimates must be... | |
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