...confidence of the child in the parent — sincere, cordial, implicit. This was the faith of Abraham. " By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed, and he went out, not knowing whither he went." This...

...call of God, exhibited a lovely example of faith and obedience. " By faith," says the apostle Paul, " Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed, and he went out, not knowing whither he went." The...

...; — and Canaan became recognised as the type of heaven. It is said, therefore, of Abraham, that " when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, he obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went....

...day of destruction arrived—but he was safe. Of Abraham, the father of the faithful, it is added, " By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out not knowing whither he went."h "...

...believing what God had declared. Had he not believed the declaration of God, he would not have done this. " By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." v....

...framed by the word of God' ; so that things which are seen were not made of things that do appear. 2. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed* ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. Note....

...the examples which the Apostle has seen fit to associate in our context. For instance, Abraham : " By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive as an inheritance, obeyed : and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith...

...were strangers." St. Paul says, in the same chapter of Hebrews to which I have already referred, " By faith, Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ;" and in faith he died, " seeing the promise afar...

...I might preach him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. Go, i. 16. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place, went out, not knowing whither he went By faith Abraham offered up Isaac. Accounting that God was M...

...told, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, (xi, 8,) ' by faith,' that is, by trust in the goodness of God, ' Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should afterwards receive as an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.'...