 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 lehte
...this was no positive proof of his title to it, much less possession of it, for he was rejected, and found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Souls that can take no pleasure in the world, nor in the church, are halting sinners: they halt, not... | |
 | John Willison - 1812 - 300 lehte
...Christ crucified, whom we have pierced with our sins, Zech. xii. 10. Q. Is it not said of J£nau, that he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears ? Heb. xii. 17. A. It is not said there, that Esau sought the grace of repentance from God to his own... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1912 - 504 lehte
...did not only sell it, but despised it," Gen. xxv, 31 — 34. This was the "profaneness" of Esau. §6. "For ye know how that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing." There is a peculiar force of persuasion and conviction, when we argue from men's own knowledge and... | |
 | 1833 - 638 lehte
...there is after a neglect of our privileges. Heb. xii. 16, 17: "Lest there be any foruicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright; for ye know how that nflenmrds, when he would have inherited the blessing, he found no place of repentance, though he sought... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1814 - 298 lehte
...springing up, troubles you, and thereby many be defiled y lest there be a.ayfomicater, or firophane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his...inherited the blessing, he was rejected : for he found no filace for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. The stating of this matter may be... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1815 - 290 lehte
...bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any foinigator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birth-right." After sermon, he desired the brethren of the church to stay, and told them what information he had... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 622 lehte
...having foolishly parted with his birthright, when he would afterwards have inherited the blessing, found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears? Is there any thing in these examples to encourage procrastination? If you had often attended a death-bed,... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 lehte
...temptations to apostasy. So the Apostle writes, Heb. xii. 16. " Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." I suppose, that both these characters are given of Esau. He was not a lewd profligate or fornicator,... | |
 | Samuel Seabury - 1815 - 320 lehte
...evil example, defile their conscience by sin against God. " Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birth-right. Fotfe know how that," &c. It is plain that the instance of Esau is no further introduced here, than... | |
 | 1822 - 440 lehte
...mistake respecting the meaning of a text of Scripture is pointed out. Edit. NOTE ON HEB. xii. 17. " For he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully tcitli tears." THE above declaration is made concerning Esau, who, having resigned his birth-right,... | |
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Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.... 
