 | 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... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Calvinism - 1810 - 418 pages
...other words, as not being righteous 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,... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 458 pages
...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.... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Traill - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 600 pages
...righteousness. The cause of Israel's missing righteousness, he gives verse 32. Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the lawi for they did not build and believe on Christ as a foundation, but stumbled at him as a stumkling-itone.... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1810 - 548 pages
...of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? because they sought n by faith, but as it were by the works of the law ; for the? stumbled at that stumblingstone." Thuğ Paul speaks, Rom. ix. 31, 33. How long was the free... | |
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What shall we say then ? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith ; but Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.... 
