...heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them n citv. 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered • up...received the promises offered up his only begotten »on ; 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able...

...faith," says St. Paul, " Abraham, when he was tried, " offered up Isaac : and he that had re'' ceived the promises, offered up his only" begotten son :...was said, that " in Isaac shall thy seed be called : ac" counting that God was able to raise him ** up even from the dead; from whence " also he received...

...wherefore God is not ashamed to he called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city. с 17 By failli Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and...received the promises offered up his only begotten sont 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be. called: 19 Accounting that God was able...

...explains this matter. In the eleventh chapter to the Hehrews, St. Paul says ; ' By faith, Ahraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac ; and he that had received the promises, offered up his only hegotten son, of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed he called : accounting that God was...

...Hebrews, speaking of this very command, " says, By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up " Isaac, accounting that God was able to raise him up even...dead, from whence also he received him in a figure; " EN nAFABOAH*, in a parable: a mode of information either " by words or actions, which consists in...

...reason) be given to these words, but that which I am pleading for. Agreeably we read, Heb. xi. 17. " By faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac...he that had received the promises, offered up his onlybegotten son." His faith was signally operative; not a dead faith ; and therefore sincere. This...

...exceeding abundantly above all that he could ask or think ; hence, says the apostle, " he offered up Isaac, of whom it was said, that, in Isaac shall thy seed...dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure." So let us all believe and act upon the truth, that he is able to save to the very uttermost, all that...

...and the worthiness of the great act of obedience in offering up his son Isaac. Heb. xi. 17 — 19 : " By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac...dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure." Job again, who, I think, with the most judicious interpreters, was of the patriarchal age, and his...

...when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that received the promises offered up his only-begotten son, of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy...God was able to raise him up, even from the dead." Had the patriarch, on this trying occasion, conferred with sense, he must have become " weak in faith,"...

...Moriah (Gen.xxii.): both of which events are put together, as types of the resurrection, Heb. xi. 19 : " less " the redeemed, according to the sure word of...look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwel Isaac typifies the heir, the possessor of the land : and that he may do this completely, and the type...