| Samuel Green (Baptist minister, Lion St. Chapel, Walworth.) - 1840 - 442 pagina’s
...future character. God had said, concerning this son of Abraham, " Behold, I have blessed him, and I will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly...shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation ;" * a declaration which was again and again repeated, t Accordingly, we find in the earliest and most... | |
| First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1840 - 548 pagina’s
...them. Thus when Abraham was importunate with God for Ishmael, how doth God tell him, Gen. xvii. 2. " And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee, behold I have blessed him :" he had external and corporeal good vouchsafed unto him ; and some think the chief blessing of the... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 pagina’s
...and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : Behold,...shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in... | |
| Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx - 1842 - 524 pagina’s
...kings shall come out of thee." And in relation to Ishmael, He says — " I have blessed him and made him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly :...shall he beget : and I will make him a great nation." Jehovah expresses the same promises, with some variations of phrase. To Abraham he declares — " I... | |
| 1843 - 912 pagina’s
...and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. X ! 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time *... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1843 - 580 pagina’s
...Abraham prayed unto God, — " 0 that Ishmael may live before thee!" For the answer was given, — " As for Ishmael I have heard thee. Behold I have blessed...princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation."2 The promise of the Lord was not forgotten, though Hagar and her son, 1 Isaiah Ix. 7. 2 Gen.... | |
| 1843 - 350 pagina’s
...and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : behold I have blessed him, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I make with ISAAC, which Sarah shall bear unto... | |
| 1844 - 504 pagina’s
...prayed with a father's heart, " 0 that Ishmael might live before thee!" the gracious answer was : " And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee ; behold I have...shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation." In her despondency these promises had failed to assure her of needed help. She had " cast the child... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1844 - 478 pagina’s
...vain that Abraham prayed unto God : " 0 that Ishmael may live before thee !" For the answer was given, "As for Ishmael, I have heard thee. Behold, I have...shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. "f The promise of the Lord was not forgotten, though Hagar and her son — types of their descendants... | |
| Robert Benjamin Lewis - 1844 - 414 pagina’s
...thy seed after thee. And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! And God said, As for Ishmael, I have heard thee. Behold, I have...shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. — (Gen. xvii. 20: xxv. 16.) Abraham's circumcision of every male child, at 'eight days old, was established... | |
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