...birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. THE design of the writer of this epistle is to preserve the Hebrew Christians from apostacy, and to...

.../17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, lie was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. * 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned withfii-L', nor unto...

...birth-right: for ye know how that, afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."* There is something truly terrifying in the idea of a person deeply regretting his past misconduct,...

...been living without the Christian principle. He had not honoured his church birthright. For a time, " he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." But at length he discovered that it was not to be found by tears. " On September 3, 1820, walking across...

...sold his birthright, when he would afterwards have inherited the blessing, he was rejected ; for " he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." At the recollection of a better f text, the words of that disciple, (blessed above all men,) whom Jesus...

...certainly uses it for general edification ; besides, when it is said of Esau, as it is in the text, that he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears, it does not signify that he could not repent, that the power of repentance was withheld from him by...

...regenerating grace. Where there is no grace, there may, notwithstanding, be a flood of tears, as in Esau, who "found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." There may be great flashes of joy, as in the hearers of the word, represented in the parable of the...

...grace. Where there is no grace, there may, notwithstanding, be a flood of tears, as in Esau, " who found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," Heb. xii. 18. There may be great flashes of jov: as in the hearers of the word, represented in the...

...sold his birthright; and afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully, with tears? Minister. He certainly lost, or rather sold his birthright; in consequence of which, he lost the blessing...

...says he, " how " that afterward, when he would have in" herited the blessing, he was rejected: for " he found no place of repentance, though " he sought it carefully with tearsV In like manner, our repentance may come too late; when every blessing we have received has been...