 | Ralph Erskine - 1805 - 534 pàgines
...part ; and fuch a way to heaven and eternal life, as led the whole Jcwilh nation to mifs it, while they fought it not by faith, but as it -were' by the works of the law: for they flumbled at that fiumbling-ßone, Rom. ix. 33. I doubt not but thrfe afts 1720 and ijzz were through... | |
 | Samuel Pike - 1807 - 512 pàgines
...hefollo-ws after the law of righteousness, he does not attain to the law of righteousness ; because he seeks it not by faith, but as it were by the -works of the Aw, Rom. ix. 31, 32. Thus, you see, how far a person may proceed in practical, devotional, and... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1807 - 678 pàgines
...folfoweth the law of righteousness, could not attain unto righteousness. Wherefore ? because he sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." Are not these plain words ? that the gentiles, which followed no righteousness nor had any... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pàgines
...thereof, have not at all attained to the state of Righteousness. IX. 32, 33 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a sttimblingstone and rock... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 514 pàgines
...Christ. Rom. ix. 31, 32. " Hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore I Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." See also the promises made, both in the Old Testament and New, to them that seek the Lord.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 578 pàgines
...of righteoujness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Where* f<?re ? Because they sought it not by faith, but as. it were by th.e works of the law." And it is very unreasonable, upon a$Y«ra.l accounts, to suppose that, the apostle, by their... | |
 | John Wesley - 1809 - 512 pàgines
...law of righteousness, have not attained to the law of righteous' ness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law. Sunday 9, I expounded in the evening to a small, but deeply serious company, on, There is... | |
 | John Wesley - 1809 - 460 pàgines
...from sin: Neither had I the witness of the Spirit with my spirit. And indeed could not: for " I sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the Law." 11. In my return to England, January 1738, being in imminent danger of death, and very uneasy... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1810 - 418 pàgines
...being righteous perfons; which the Gentiles, who fubmitted to the gofpel, were. And wherefore? Becaitfe they fought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law? For they Jtumbled at that Jlumbling Jlone.* Yet Paul in the fame chapter, and in the mod folemn manner, declared,... | |
 | William Jones - 1810 - 458 pàgines
...being the gift of God, they who trust not in God for it will be left destitute.—The Jews, who sought it not by Faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law, going about to establish their own righteousness, have reduced themselves to a miserable condition.... | |
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wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law: for they 
