 | Elisha Bates - 1829 - 358 pages
...promises, both in the Old and New Testaments, is conditional : " If thou <loest well, shalt not thou be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Gen. iv. 7. " " Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; a blessing, if ye obey the... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pages
...had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted (or have the excellency ;INI?) ? and if thou does not well, sin (nxan) lieth... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 604 pages
...nation ; but sin is a reproach to any people ;" ver. 34. And yet you make the avoiding it a reproach. " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door ;" Gen. iv. 7. " Be sure your sin will find you out;" Numb, xxxii. 23. " Sin when it is finished bringeth... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 590 pages
...nation ; but sin is a reproach to any people ;" ver. 34. And yet you make the avoiding it a reproach. " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door ;" Gen. iv. 7. " Be sure your sin will find you out;" Numb- xxxii. 23. " Sin when it is finished bringeth... | |
 | Margaret Woods - 1830 - 522 pages
...tend to increase our faith, and stimulate us to press forward in the right path. 23d, 5th Mo.—11 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door."* The mode in which this question is asked, implies, If thou doest well, thou shalt be accepted. This... | |
 | Alexander Nicoll - 1830 - 408 pages
...had been rejected, the word n^ttf! was rightly rendered sin in our version of the Old Testament: " if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well sin lieth at the doorV I maintained, that it ought, agreeably to the usual principles of interpretation, to be rendered,... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...fell. 6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thon doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 630 pages
...said to the leader of your sect, " Why art thou wrath ? And why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." (Gen. iv. 6.) Have you not as much need to pray as those that you hate and reproach for praying? Have... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 632 pages
...said to the leader of your sect, " Why art thou wrath ? And why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou do well^ shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." (Gen. iv. 6.) Have you not as much need to pray as those that you hate and reproach for. praying? Have... | |
 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...reinstated in the privileges he was entitled to as the firstborn — .find the LORD said unto Cain, why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted? Jlnd if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall... | |
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And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. 
