 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...Christ. Rom. ix. 31, 32. " Hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? 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. To saving... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the " law of righteousness. Wherefore ? because they " sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works " of the law."* Such may continue, for a while, to enjoy security in the fabric whieh they have reared. But when the... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 460 pages
...freed from sin: Neither had I the witness of the Spirit with my spirit. And indeed could not : for HI 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 on that... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law," &c. And in the 3d verse of this chapter, " For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 512 pages
...after the law of righteousness, have not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law. Sunday 9, T expounded in the evening to a small, but deeply serious company, on, There is one Mediator... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 458 pages
...we are able to furnish ourselves. For if God so clothe the grass of' the jield, hmo much more will he clothe those that believe on him ? Righteousness,...wilderness ; and while the wilderness of the Gentiles is encouraged to rejoice and blossom as the rose, the case with them .is the very reverse — Rejoice... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Ver. 32. Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone. Phil. iii. 4. Though I might also have confidence in the... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 540 pages
...the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone ; av xai av Ti ow epovfiev ', crtt ra LYI &G)xovTa SixaioavvYiv... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Calvinism - 1810 - 418 pages
...perfons; which the Gentiles, who fubmitted to the gofpel, were. And wherefore? Becaufe they fought it not by faith, but as it "were by the works of the law? For they jlumbled at that jl ambling jlone* Yet Paul in the fame chapter, and in the moft folemn manner,... | |
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But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. 
