 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 492 halaman
...the honour of God, and the edification of our neighbour, as appears from Heb. vi 16. Men swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." Other scriptures are alleged by them to the same purport. Men who held these things should be acquitted... | |
 | William Romaine - 1809 - 260 halaman
...see, how he meets thy doubts, and answers thine objections — " An oath for confirmation is among men an end of all strife : wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath : that by two immutable... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 halaman
...it as a known custom to terminate disputes in this .manner. " Men verily swear by the greater, arid an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." pe manifestly speaks of this practice ia .terms of approbation, Paul had the mind of Jesus Christ.... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 594 halaman
...Christ. See Ess. v. Sect. 6. 1 5 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 1 6 For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 halaman
...oath i but let your yea be yea ; and your ,uay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. c Heb. vi. 1C. For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 2 Cor. i. 23. [See letter b.] Isa. Ixv. 16. That he who blcsseth himself in the earth, shall bless... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 574 halaman
...himself, 14. Saying, surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multifUy thee. — 16. For men -verily swear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of all contradiction. — 17. for which cause, God willing more abunVOL. III. 3 IS SECT. 3. ON THE COVENANT... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 halaman
...capable of being believed, and we are obliged to believe others upon their oath : " For men swear hy the greater; -and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife," according to our text ; for we may not think that any man is so forgetful of God, that he would undertake... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 halaman
...the cuftom of fwearing judicially without any mark of cenfure or difapprobation : ' Men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all flrife." But though a nation has an undoubted right to require the fecurity of an oath upon occafions... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 566 halaman
...blessing I will bless tftee, and multiplying I will multifily thee. — !6. For men -verily swear 6y the greater ; and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of all contradiction. — 17. for tv/iicfi cause, God milling more abunclantly to shew to the heirs of promise,... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 586 halaman
...ESS. v. Sect. 6. is Kat B 1 5 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 1 6 For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation it to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise... | |
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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew 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 a strong consolation, who have fled... 
