 | Richard Baxter - 1791 - 212 páginas
...Becaufe he can fwear by no greater than himfelf, he faith, " As I live, &V." For men verily fwear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of ftrife : wherein God, willing more abundantly to fhew unto the heirs of promile the immutability qf... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 páginas
...cuftom of fwearing judicially without any mark of cenfure or diiapprobation ; 'Men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all ftrif«." But though a nation has an uadoubted right to require the fecurity of an oath upon occafions... | |
 | 1798 - 408 páginas
...he could fwear by no greater, he fvvare by himfelf. (Gen. xxii. 16. 17.) For men verily fwear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife (or contradiction,) wherein God, willing more abundantly to (hew unto the heirs of promife the... | |
 | 1799 - 404 páginas
...fince he could fwear by no greater, he fware by himfelf : for indeed men fwear by a greater Being ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction. Therefore God, being willing to fhew more abundantly to the heirs of promife the immutability... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1797 - 582 páginas
...to the honour of God, and the edification of our neighbour, as Appears from Heb. vi. 16. Men fwear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife." Other Scriptures are alleged by them to the fame purport. Men who held thefe things fhould... | |
 | 1806 - 504 páginas
....himself, saying, surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying J will multiply tbet For uien verily swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing to shew to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it... | |
 | 1803 - 556 páginas
...to Abraham, becaufc he could (wear by-no greater, he fvvare by himfeif. For men verily fwear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all itnfe : wherein God, willing more abundantly to ihew unto the heirs of promue the immutability of his... | |
 | John Skinner (Bp. of Aberdeen) - 1803 - 564 páginas
...Dr. Randolph's excellent Sermon on the character of Abraham. f Gal. iii. 8. u men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath for " confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife: " wherein God willing more abundantly to mew to " the heirs of promife the immutability of... | |
 | John Skinner (bp. of Aberdeen.) - 1803 - 568 páginas
...Dr. Randolph's excellent Sermon on the charaScr of Abraham. t Gal. iii 8. " men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath for " confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife : *' •wherein God willing more abundantly to (hew to " the heirs of promife the immutability... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 páginas
...hope." It is founded not only open the word, but equally upon the oath, of God. "Men verily swear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife, Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
