 | John Gill - Baptists - 1773 - 678 pages
...Ifrael, which followed after the law of righteoufnefs, hath not attained ta t hi law of rigbteoufnejs. Wherefore? becaufe they fought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law1. The fame fuccefs attends all thoie who purfue the fame fcheme, and take the fame methods ; by... | |
 | John Fletcher - Justification (Christian theology) - 1775 - 500 pages
...Ifrael, which followed alter the law of righreoufuefs, hath not attained jo the law of righteoufned. Wherefore? Becaufe they fought it not by FAITH, but as it were by the works of the law \_opfafcd to Cbrtftl : for they tumbled at that (tumbling ftone. Rom.ix. 31,32. i. Abraham BELIEVED... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1777 - 528 pages
...they feek to enter in, .but they jhall not be Able, Luke xiii. 24. They feek falvation, but they feek it not by faith ; but, as it -were, by the works of the law. They pretend refpect to the law, and yet affront it by refufmg the only law -biding, law -fulfilling... | |
 | Jonathan Dickinson - Apologetics - 1784 - 406 pages
...them, though they follow after the law of rlghteoufnefs, t}iey do not obtain it ; becaufe they feek it, not by faith, but 'as it were by the works of the /aw.— Here then you fee, that good works have no place at all. We are to look after no recommending... | |
 | John Fletcher - Antinomianism - 1790 - 418 pages
...is of faith. But Ifrad, which J ''allowed after the Law of righteoufntfs, hath not attained to it. Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by faith ; but as it were by the faithlefs works, which they did in felf-righteous obedience to the letter of the law ; trampling under... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 500 pages
...which followed the Law of Righteoufnefs, has not attained to the Law of Righteoufnefs ;" Ver. 32, " Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by Faith, but as it were by the Works of the Law." And he is alfo in both Parts of the Epiftfe fpcaking of the fame fubjefts, Gentiles and Jews ; and... | |
 | Robert Macculloch - Bible - 1791 - 750 pages
...but did not Lord is upright, he is our rock, and there is no unrighteoufnefs in him. * attain to it; becaufe they fought it not by faith, ' but as it were by the works of the law: for they ' ltumbled at that flurflbiing-ftone*.' Falfe notions of the great promiled Meffiah, of the... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 506 pages
...Ifrael, which followed the Law of Righleoufnefs, has not attained to the Law of Righteoufnefs ;" Ver. 32, Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by Faith, but as it were by jhe Works Of t|le Law.» And he is alfo in both Parts of the Epiftle 'Peking of the fame fubjeib, Gentiles... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Religious poetry - 1793 - 384 pages
...righteoufnefs which is of faith : but Iliad, which followed after the law of righte. oufncfs, hath not attained to the law of righteoufnefs. Wherefore ? Becaufe they...by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. Chap. x. 3. Ifrael being ignorant of God's righteoufnefs, and going about to eltabliih their own righteoufnefs,... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - Faith - 1793 - 554 pages
...mifcarried, next verfe. Wherefore? how came it to pafs that they were fo wretchedly difappointed ? why, becaufe they fought " it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of " the law." They were refolved to hew it out o£ their own doings, though that would not do ; and they would not... | |
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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.... 
