 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1817 - 530 pages
...of righteousness, hath not at" tained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Be" cause they sought it not by faith, but as it were by " the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stum" bling-stone."J Was any true believer ever excluded from justification,... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...followed after the law of righteousness, had not attained to the law of righteousness, because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling stone;" he takes care to anne* to this declaration, these conciliating... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Christian literature, American - 1817 - 630 pages
...express,t " Israel 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, for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone, as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling-stone,... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 480 pages
...law of righteousness, bath 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 : for they stumbled at the stumbling stone ; as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone,... | |
 | Isaac Milner - Sermons, English - 1820 - 466 pages
...by faith, St. Paul observes, the Jews " attained not the law of righteousness, because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Law:" " they stumbled at that stumbling-stone and rock of offence," which lay in Sion; they went about "... | |
 | Isaac Milner - Sermons, English - 1820 - 462 pages
...by faith, St. Paul observes, the Jews " attained not the law of righteousness, because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Law:" " they stumbled at that stumbling-stone and rock of offence," which lay in Sion ; they went about "... | |
 | Nick Harrison - Religion - 1998 - 500 pages
...is, therefore, no need to struggle for self-improvement first, for that is to seek the Holy Spirit "not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law" (Rom. 9:32). Nor is there any need to wait for Him, as some have thought — no need to wait, that... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 552 pages
...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 on that... | |
 | Frederick A. Dreyer - Religion - 1999 - 156 pages
...freed from sin." He lacked the witness of the Spirit and knew not how to obtain it. "For I 'sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.'"51 Belief was something Bohler urged on Wesley as an alternative to the BuSkampf. In Wesley's... | |
 | Dick Iverson, Bill Scheidler - Christian heresies - 2000 - 114 pages
...law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone. As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone... | |
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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.... 
