 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825
...endured, he obtained the promise," viz. by the birth of Isaac. "For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife: wherein God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel,... | |
 | Robert Barclay - 1826 - 558 страници
...proves oaths used among men, when he writes, Heb. vi. 16. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. But there are as many contests, fallacies, and differences at this time as there ever were ; therefore... | |
 | 1826
...God, and the edification of our neigh, boars, 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... | |
 | 1827 - 488 страници
...do according to this word: and they sware. e 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1827 - 374 страници
...judicially, without any mark of censure or disapprobation: "Men Verily swear by the greater; and " an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife." Upon the strength of these reasons, we explain our Saviour's words to relate, not to judicial oaths,... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Scotland (Church of) - 1827
...your nay, nay; lest ye Jail into condemnation. e Heb. vi. 16. 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 blesseth himself in the earth, shall bless... | |
 | 1827
...in duration with the unchangeable system of Christianity—" Men verily swear by the Greater ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife."* To these divine precepts we may add the illustration of the purest examples on record. The most pious... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1827
...This happened about the beginning of the sixteenth century. t Usher de Christ. Ecc. success. & statu. 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... | |
 | 1827 - 499 страници
...so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife. 'Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828
...They suborned false witnesses against Stephen.—Acts vi. 11. 13. Men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation, is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly, &c. confirmed it by an oath.—Heb. vi. 13. 16—18. Jer. xxii.... | |
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Dr. Tillotson, in his sermon upon the lawfulness of oaths, taking a text which applies to all nations and all men, ' an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife, 
