 | Burton W. Carr - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...look forward ; and what the apostle says with regard to the patriarch will apply to all his people; "wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." — What an intimation of his goodness is here! He would be ashamed of the relation into which... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." Our Saviour also allowed him to be in glory ; and even represented heaven by a union and intimacy... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...(and too many invitations) to return to it. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city ;" Heb. xi. 10. 13—16. This noble end ennobleth both the persons and conversations of believers.... | |
 | James Parsons - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city."* And in the same manner, the emblem is adopted by the apostle as the appropriate representation... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." And the heavenly inheritance in the heavenly Canaan, or land of rest, which Christ has entered... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...have had opportunity to have returned : but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city;" ver. 13 — 16. It was the sorest kind of banishment that the saints endured, that is mentioned,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...worldly things will no longer satisfy them ; but they " desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city m." Now they are soundly persuaded that " there is a God, and that he is the rewarder of them... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...ashamed to be called their God. Heb. xi. 16. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. If it had not been for this, God's being their God, spoken of so much, and as so great a thing,... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...God."" Of others eminent for piety it is said, *' They desire a better country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city."' What must that abode be, which a God of love provides for those he condescends to own ! How... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...of whom he saith in the same place, " But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city " (Heb.xi. 16). And the Apostle, in writing to the Philippians, made high account of this, when... | |
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But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
