...multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And fo, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promife. 1 6 For men verily fwear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife. 1 7 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to fhew unto the heirs of promife the immutability...

...Heb.\\. 13, 1 6, 17, 1 8. Becaufe he can fwear by no greater than himfelf, he faith, " As I live, &V." For men verily fwear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of ftrife : wherein God, willing more abundantly to fhew unto the heirs of promile the immutability qf...

...happened about the .beguuiingoi the sixteenth century. t Usher de Christ. Ecc. success. & sta(u. •I 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...

...Hebrews fpeaks of the cuftom of fwearing judicially without any mark of cenfure or diiapprobation ; 'Men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is to them an end of all ftrif«." But though a nation has an uadoubted right to require the fecurity of an oath upon occafions...

...fince he could fwear by no greater, he fware by himfelf : for indeed men fwear by a greater Being ; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction. Therefore God, being willing to fhew more abundantly to the heirs of promife the immutability...

...(iflting or deftring a Divint teftimony, for the confirmathn of the truth of our teftimony : Heb. vi. 16. " For men verily fwear by the greater ; and an oath for [confir" mation] is to them an end of all ftrife." The corruption of human nature by the fall has made...

...Hebrews fpeaks of the cuftorn of fwearing judicially, without any mark of cen^ure or difapprobation : " Men verily fwear by '* the greater ; and an oath, for confirmation, is M to them an end of all ftrife." Upon the ftrength of thefe reafons, we explain our Saviour's words...

...the honour of God, and the edification of our neighbour, as Appears from Heb. vi. 16. Men fwear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all ftrife." Other Scriptures are alleged by them to the fame purport. Men who held thefe things fhould...

...surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying J will multiply tbet For uien verily swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing to shew to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it...

...that tl when God made promife to Abraham, becaufc he could (wear by-no greater, he fvvare by himfeif. For men verily fwear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all itnfe : wherein God, willing more abundantly to ihew unto the heirs of promue the immutability of his...