| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 pages
...offering had produced in him, He reasoned with him on the subject and said, Gen iv. 7, "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted; and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door: " the meaning of which seems to be this, " If thou wast not a a transgressor, thy acceptance would be insured... | |
| John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...numberless other passages appears to have been also the case after the fall. Gen. iv. 7. if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, or, the punishment of sin watcheth for thee. Exod. xxxii. 32, 33. blot me, I pray thee, out of thy... | |
| Elisha Bates - Society of Friends - 1825 - 340 pages
...general strain of scripture promises, both in the Old and New Testament, is conditional. "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Gen 4. 7. "Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a eurse: a blessing if ye obey the commandments... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1825 - 588 pages
...inevitable consequences of vice, and happiness the sure result of obedience and virtue. " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door:" Gen. iv, 7. " Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him ; for they shall eat the fruit... | |
| Abigail Mott - Child rearing - 1825 - 104 pages
...brother's offering was more acceptable than his own ; was it not said to him, " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." The royal Psalmist, when speaking of the goodness of the Lord, of which he appears to have been very sensible,... | |
| James Thomas Law - Apostles' Creed - 1825 - 386 pages
...though at first perhaps obscurely, to the guilty Cain. " If thou doest well," said the Lord unto him, " shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, (ie the punishment of sin will surely await thee) '"." " Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied,... | |
| Theology - 1825 - 600 pages
...on that topic," (p. 45.)he proceeds to review the text relating to Cain. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, SIN LIETH AT THE DOOR :" where the clause in capitals is rendered by Archbishop Magee, " a sin-offering lieth at the door,"... | |
| Thomas William Lancaster - Bible - 1825 - 494 pages
...1. ver. 8. of the most learned and able expositors of the original text. " If thou doest well, shall thou not be " accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at " the doorb." Of the expositors to whom I refer, it is the decided judgment, that the word which is here... | |
| William Magee - Atonement - 1825 - 548 pages
...and the acceptance of Abel's. The words in the present version are, ifthou doest ivellr shall tfwu not be accepted? — and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door* — which words, as they stand connected in the context, supply no very satisfactory meaning, and have... | |
| 1871 - 592 pages
...the seed of the serpent could bring would come up as a memorial before Him. Verse 7 : "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door," &c. As previously shown, it is the motive that is looked at here. In the same 4th verse of the llth... | |
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