...the necessity of the separation of Abraham from Lot, I ask your attention to Gen. xiii. 14-18, — "And the Lord said unto Abram, AFTER THAT LOT WAS...land which thou seest, to thee will I give it and to thy seed forever," &c. My attention, some years since, was first called by my friend Dr. Darragh,...

...birthright, the Lord vouchsafed again to make the following declaration to Abram. The Lord said, " Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where...to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever" " For ever ! " The future kingdom of his seed, which he was called upon to contemplate from the sanctuary...

...Unto thy seed will I give this land," Gen. xii. 7. Some years after the promise was thus amplified, " All the land which thou seest to thee will I give...and I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth," Gen. xiii. 15, 16. "Look now toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them ; and...

...thee, and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.. . . Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where...I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth.... Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars if thou be able to number them; and He said unto him, So...

...stood the alone head of his family and household, God appeared to him for the third time, and said to him, " Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place...to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever," &c. In reference to this third appearance of Jehovah to the patriarch, it is to be observed : 1. That...

...this land," v, 7. More fully and definitely, after Lot separated from Abraham, was it again given, " Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where...to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever," xiii. 14, 15. Again, in chap. xv. '7, "I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to...

...object of homage in the present instance. So of the ensuing narrative, Gen. xiii. 14-18 : "And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from...to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever." " Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, and built there an altar unto...

...every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated...and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to ti]ee mill 3 Jjioe it, and to thy seed forever. &пЬ 3 mill make thn seeb oe the îmst of tfye curtí)...

...of Canaan still, and God renewed to him and to his seed for ever, the gift of that land, saying to him, " Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place...thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And 1 will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth,...

...tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. 14 If ey arose early on the morrow : 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I...