 | 1788 - 600 pages
...thee. 15 And fo, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promife. 1 6 For men verily fwear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife. 1 7 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to fhew unto the heirs of promife the immutability... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1791 - 212 pages
...8. 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... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - 538 pages
...happened about the .beguuiingoi the sixteenth century. t Usher de Christ. Ecc. success. & sta(u. •I an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all , strife." Other scriptures are alleged by them to the same purport. Men who held these things should be acquitted... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797
...the 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 pages
...becaufe 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 - 402 pages
...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... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pages
...hope, which they derive from it, the apostle says, from the 16th to the 20th verse of the context, For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them sJtn end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, the... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1797 - 582 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Skinner (bp. of Aberdeen.) - 1803 - 568 pages
...• See 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... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
