 | Edward Harley - 1730 - 332 pagina’s
...come forth out of thine own Bowels fhall be thine Heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and faid, Look now toward Heaven, and tell the STARS, if thou be able to NUMBER them : and he faid unto him, So fhall thy SEED be. 1 1(tm. iv. f what faith the Scripturet Abraham BELIEVED GOD,... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 764 pagina’s
...come forth out of thine own Bowels fhall be thine Heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and faid, Look now toward Heaven, and tell the STARS, if thou be able to NUMBER them : and he faid unto him, So (hall thy SEED be. theLoRD ; and he counted it P tuie? Abtllh r ««?VE» GOD. and... | |
 | Jonathan Dickinson - 1757 - 422 pagina’s
...was more than fo long before this, that Abraham had this Teftimony given him in Gen. xv. • 6. That he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for Righteoufnefi. Yea, he was a Believer fo long before, at hisfirft leaving his Father's Houfe. Jij/... | |
 | William Mason - 1765 - 522 pagina’s
...great reward ; then gives him the comfortable promise of the seed that should spring from him. Abraham "believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness ; and he offered a sacrifice, as the Lord commanded." But, alas, how soon did his bright sun of comfort disappear,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 278 pagina’s
...inherit from the great patriarch Abraham, from whom we are defcended; for of him it is recorded, " And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteoufnefs*." And therefore, * Genefis xv. 6. having Co bright an example continually1 before us,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 506 pagina’s
...the flars, if thou be able to number them : And he.faid unto him, So ihall thy- feed be." Here again, he believed in the Lord ; and he counted it to him for rlghteaujnefs. Alfa Gen. xvii. i — 8, he repeats and efhbliiheth the fame covenant " for an pverlafting... | |
 | John Owen - 1797 - 252 pagina’s
...certain that Abraham was juftified many years before ; when that teftimony was given concerning him — " he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteoufnefs." (2.) It is certain, that in the relation of the ftory here repeated by the Apoftle,... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pagina’s
...mine heir. And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir ; And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now...them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And Abram believed in the Lord ; and he counted it to him for righteousness. And the Lord said unto him,... | |
 | William Mason - 1803 - 400 pagina’s
...then gives him the comfortable promise of the seed that should spring from him. Upon which, Abraham " believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness;" and he offers a sacrifice as the Lord commanded. But, alas, how soon did his bright sun of comfort disappear!... | |
 | 1804 - 300 pagina’s
...heaven and tell thejiars, if thou be able to number them : and he faid unto him, So Jhall thy feed be. And he believed in the Lord ; and he counted it to him for righteoufrteft. Now the Apoftle makes this in Abraham's faith, which is different from ours, . the... | |
| |
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he» said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD ; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 
