| William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the I .oui > ; and he counted it to him for righteousness, Gen. xv. 5, 6. VER. 4. T« ÎÈ i pya^ojttíw ó /лсгбос ov Xoyí£f TOÍ Now to him that worketh is the reward... | |
| Temple Chevallier - Bible - 1826 - 460 pages
...had paid tithes to Melchisedec, the general promise of increase was limited to his own son : " and he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness."k A new assurance of the Divine promise was given to him, when the covenant of circumcision... | |
| Temple Chevallier - 1826 - 460 pages
...and had paid tithes to Melchisedec, the general promise of increase was limited to his own son: " and he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness."k A new assurance of the Divine promise was given to him, when the covenant of circumcision... | |
| Joseph Fincher - 1827 - 438 pages
...and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord ; and He counted it to him for righteousness. THE PRAYER OF ABRAHAM. GENESIS xvii. 18. And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1827 - 548 pages
...mention is made in. Scripture, of " faith counted for righteousness."' So Gen. xv. 6 : " He (Abraham) believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness :" a text repeated, with but little variation, over and over in the New Testament. Rom. iv. 5 : "To... | |
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent. — Gen. ix. 21. Abraham believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness, &c. Abraham, my friend. He staggered not through unbelief. — Gen. xv. 6. Isa. xli. 8. Rom. iv. 20.... | |
| William Jones (of Nayland.) - Sermons - 1829 - 654 pages
...shews, that God is pleased with faith, and that without faith it is impossible to please him — " He believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness." Gen. xv. G. If you would know the justice of this, the case is plain. Man is in a state of alienation and forfeiture... | |
| Rev. Jonathan Dickinson - Religion - 1829 - 520 pages
...And it was more than so long before this, that Abraham had this testimony given him in Gen. xv. 6. " That he believed in the Lord : and he counted it to him for righteousness." Yea, he was a believer so long before, as his first leaving his father's house. " By faith Abraham,... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1829 - 520 pages
...justifieth the ungodly that worketh not," and imputes his faith to him for righteousness. Even so Abraham " believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness." (Gen. xv. 6.) " And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith, — that he might... | |
| John Fuller - 1829 - 448 pages
...unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake." Gen. xv. 6. " And he believed in the Lord ; and he counted it to him for righteousness." James ii. 21. " Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon... | |
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