 | Music - 1824 - 579 pages
...follow at thy call ; The joy prepar'd for sufFring saints, Will make amends for all. 280. A Pilgrim. 7s. But now they desire a better country, that is, an...called their GOD ; for he hath prepared for them a city — HEB. xi. 16. CHILDREN of the heav'nly King, As ye journey sweetly sing ; Sing our SAVIOUR'S... | |
 | Greville Ewing - 1824 - 257 pages
...living." The Apostle also supposes it to include eternal blessedness in the world to come. Heb. xi. 16'. " Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city." Which city is the heavenly Jerusalem, chap, xii. 22. This covenant, which was confirmed of God... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 493 pages
...Prov. viii. 21. Abraham looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, &c. They desire a better country, that is, an heavenly...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city, &c. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 493 pages
...Prov. viii. 21. Abraham looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, &c. They desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:...called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city, &c. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1824
...consecrated to the service of GOD, they conduct themselves as strangers and pilgrims upon earth, and hence " desire a better country, that is, an heavenly, wherefore...called their GOD ; for he hath prepared for them a city." (Heb. xi. 16.) Towards this city they are travelling through the wilderness of this world, where... | |
 | American Bible Society - Foreign Language Study - 1824 - 429 pages
...they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac : and he that had received the promises... | |
 | 1824
...strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly, that they seek a country : — that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, Heh.si. c. for he hath prepared for them a city." — "But without faith it is impossible... | |
 | John Bunyan, William Mason - 1814 - 542 pages
...own country from whence they came out, they had leisure to have returned ; but they desired a better, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, and hath prepared for them a city. Now Tender-Conscience was greatly pleased and Rarities... | |
 | William Malkin - 1825
...plainly that they seek a country ; and truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to...called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. — 'Ver. 35. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better... | |
![The harmony of the law [of Moses] and the gospel with regard to the doctine ...](http://bks6.books.google.co.in/books?id=4ugGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The harmony of the law [of Moses] and the gospel with regard to the doctine ...") | Thomas William Lancaster, Moses (the lawgiver.) - 1825
...manifest * " that they seek a country. And truly, if they had " been mindful of that country, from whence they " came out, they might have had opportunity to...called THEIR GOD : for he hath " prepared for them a city a." When God declares himself emphatically to be a God to Abraham b, the expression must necessarily... | |
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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
