 | John Platts - 1827 - 686 страници
...the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. HEB. xi. 4 : By faith Abel offered unto God a more...he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts : and by it he being dead yet speaketh. ' HAB. ii. 4 : Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 страници
...came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. HEB. xi. 4 : By faith Abel offered unto God a more...he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. JUDE, 11: Woe unto them I for they have gone in the way of Cain,... | |
 | Richard Ramsden - 1827 - 380 страници
...them consider, whether these blessings be to them present realities. V. THE FAITH OF ABEL. HEBREWS XI. 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent...he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh. IN the story of the two brothers Cain and Abel, of whom the younger... | |
 | 1827 - 460 страници
...heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." " 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent...he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ; and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh." " 12 Not as Cain who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.... | |
 | 1827 - 524 страници
...cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice...he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ; and by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith, Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1827 - 346 страници
...particular faith of Abel, who occupies a conspicuous place in the apostolic catalogue of recorded worthies. By faith, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice...was righteous ; God testifying of his gifts : and, by it, he being dead yet speaketh *. The word Faith, we have established, as employed by the Apostle... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1827 - 558 страници
...faith of our first parents in the great atoning sacrifice Christ, of whom these-were a type. Heb. 11.4! By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice...he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh. (i) Matt. 13. 47. Again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net,... | |
 | John Crombie - 1827 - 640 страници
...The inspired author of our text answers the question in the fourth verse of the preceding chapter: " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice...that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts." Thus, while Cain rested his confidence upon his own sincerity, and upon the worth of the offering which... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 страници
...right manner, according to the thereof: and the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering. With Heb. xi. 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more...by which he obtained witness that he was righteous 5 Cod testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead, yet speaketh. w Job ix. 20. If I justify myself,... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 страници
...unquestionably that assigned by the inspired author of the epistle to the Hebrews, when he says that" by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice...which he obtained witness that he was righteous;" but the question is, what was the faith which Abel had, and which Cain wanted ? According te some it... | |
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from observing what the Apostle to the Hebrews tells us, (Heb. xi. 4.) " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. 
