| Ralph Erskine - 1795 - 518 pàgines
...their falvation may be free, as well as lure. See thefe two joined, Rom. iv. 16. " Therefore ic is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promife might be fure to all the feed." Indeed, if the' promife were not free, falvation could not... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 666 pàgines
...gives immutability to this covenant. It is not built upon works, but grace: " There' « fore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the pro« niife might be fure to all the feed," Rom. iv. 16. Tins covenant : is not founded as the firtt... | |
| 1802 - 374 pàgines
...Because the law worketh wrath; for where no lav/ is, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace ; to the end the promise rright be sure to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pàgines
...pitched upon as the great mean of communion betwixt God and finners ; Rom. iv. 1 6. " Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promife might be fure to all the feed." And the ftronger faith is, it fpreads out the more wants, and... | |
| William Huntington - 1802 - 686 pàgines
...glorious harveft ; and in all thefe the earneft of the future inheritance. Well may Paul fay, // is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promife might be Jure to all the feed. Matters thus fettled between Father, Son, and Spirit ; revealed... | |
| William Huntington - 1803 - 590 pàgines
...is made void, and the promife made of none effeft ; becaufe the law worketh wrath, "therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace ; to the end the promife might be fur e to all the feed. Rom. iv. 13 — 16. Thus you fee we have made fhift to bring... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1803 - 516 pàgines
...Lord." " I am aftonifhed," fays St. Auguftine, " that, notwithftanding the Apoftle declares, It is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promife might be lure, men can choofe rather to rely on their own debility than on the ftrength of... | |
| 1804 - 476 pàgines
...Because the law worketh wrath : for where no law is, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the law, but to that als« which... | |
| James Alexander Haldane - 1805 - 822 pàgines
...to the nature of the inheritance, let them attend to the declaration of the Holy Ghoft, that " it is of faith that it might be by grace ; to the end the promife might be fure to all the feed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that alfo which... | |
| Thomas Baldwin - 1806 - 352 pàgines
...to Abraham nor to hisjfotf through the law, but through the righteoufnefs of faith. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promife might be fure to all the feed."* " And if ye be Chrift's, then are ye Abraham's feed, and heirs... | |
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