 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 432 pages
...sinful. The apostle to the Hebrews speaks of it as a known custom to terminate disputes in this manner. " Men. verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." - He manifestly speaks of this practice in terms of approbation, that he would treat with kindness... | |
 | Edward Williams - 1809 - 604 pages
...the promife of none effeft. Is " the law againft the promifes of GOD ? GOD fbr" bid. 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 fhew unto the heirs of promife the immutability... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 492 pages
...the honour of God, and the edification of our neighbour, as appears from Heb. vi 16. Men swear by a greater, and 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... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pages
...it as a known custom to terminate disputes in this .manner. " Men verily swear by the greater, arid an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." pe manifestly speaks of this practice ia .terms of approbation, Paul had the mind of Jesus Christ.... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...i but let your yea be yea ; and your ,uay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. c Heb. vi. 1C. For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 2 Cor. i. 23. [See letter b.] Isa. Ixv. 16. That he who blcsseth himself in the earth, shall bless... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 594 pages
...Christ. See Ess. v. Sect. 6. 1 5 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 1 6 For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 574 pages
...himself, 14. Saying, surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multifUy thee. — 16. For men -verily swear by the greater ; and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of all contradiction. — 17. for which cause, God willing more abunVOL. III. 3 IS SECT. 3. ON THE COVENANT... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 pages
...capable of being believed, and we are obliged to believe others upon their oath : " For men swear hy the greater; -and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife," according to our text ; for we may not think that any man is so forgetful of God, that he would undertake... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...the cuftom of fwearing judicially without any mark of cenfure or difapprobation : ' Men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all flrife." But though a nation has an undoubted right to require the fecurity of an oath upon occafions... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 566 pages
...blessing I will bless tftee, and multiplying I will multifily thee. — !6. For men -verily swear 6y the greater ; and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of all contradiction. — 17. for tv/iicfi cause, God milling more abunclantly to shew to the heirs of promise,... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
