 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1829 - 412 pages
...consequences of vice, and happiness the sure result of obedience and virtue. " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door:" Gen. iv, 7. " Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him ; for they shall eat the fruit... | |
 | Edward Dowling - Election (Theology) - 1829 - 264 pages
...unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." This extract, without any comment, seems sufficiently to explain itself, the latter part whereof intimates... | |
 | Elisha Bates - Society of Friends - 1829 - 360 pages
...Scripture promises, both in the Old and New Testaments, is conditional : " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Gen. iv. 7. "Behold ! I set before you this day a blessing and a curse : — a blessing, if ye obey... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 1012 pages
...unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? I If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee 'shall bt his desire, and thou shall rule over him. 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother... | |
 | Elisha Bates - 1829 - 358 pages
...promises, both in the Old and New Testaments, is conditional : " If thou <loest well, shalt not thou be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Gen. iv. 7. " " Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; a blessing, if ye obey the... | |
 | Margaret Woods - Quakers - 1830 - 522 pages
...and stimulate us to press forward in the right path. 23d, 5th Mo.—11 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door."* The mode in which this question is asked, implies, If thou doest well, thou shalt be accepted. This law,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 590 pages
...any people ;" ver. 34. And yet you make the avoiding it a reproach. " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door ;" Gen. iv. 7. " Be sure your sin will find you out;" Numb- xxxii. 23. " Sin when it is finished bringeth... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...of your sect, " Why art thou wrath ? And why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." (Gen. iv. 6.) Have you not as much need to pray as those that you hate and reproach for praying? Have... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 574 pages
...Prophesy, p. 74, 75, and Owen on Heb. xi. 4, p. 18. [344] Gen. iv. 7. " If thou doest well, shalt not thou be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Cain was not accepted in his offering, because he did not well — Bfcause, 1. He was a wicked man,... | |
 | Alexander Nicoll - Apologetics - 1830 - 408 pages
...n^ttf! was rightly rendered sin in our version of the Old Testament: " if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well sin lieth at the doorV I maintained, that it ought, agreeably to the usual principles of interpretation, to be rendered,... | |
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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. 
