| John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...righteousness." (This was a little before God established his covenant with him, and is related, Gen. xv. 6.J '; And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of...not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also : and the father of circumcision, (ie of them that are circumcised,) to .them who are... | |
| Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 560 pages
...without which they wijl be utterly ineffectual to you. THE NATURE OF THE SACRAMENTS. -Rom. ir. 1 1 . — And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of...of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised. THIS text discovers the nature of a sacrament, in the description the apostle gives us of circumcision,... | |
| English literature - 1812 - 528 pages
...for righteousness, was so reckoned not when he was in circumcision, but in wtcireumcision; and that he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the...of the faith which he had, yet being uncircumcised. Thirdly, the apostle when asserting justification /'"•• faith, without the deeds of the law (Rom.... | |
| Joseph Bellamy - Congregational churches - 1812 - 556 pages
...uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal, (not of Mr. M.'s external covenant, but) of the righteousness of the faith which he had, yet...being uncircumcised ; that he might be the father, (not of those, graceless men, that enter into Mr. M.'s graceless covenant, but) of ail them that believe... | |
| John Smith - Bible - 1812 - 286 pages
...divine grace, they may be a mean of promoting the Redeemer's kingdom. SERMON I. ROMANS, iv. 11 — 12. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of, the faith, which he had, being yet uncircumcised : that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not... | |
| Joseph Bellamy - 1812 - 702 pages
...uncireumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal, (not of Mr. M.'s external covenant, but) of the righteousness of the faith ^which he had, yet...being uncircumcised ; that he might be the father, (not of those graceless men, that enter into Mr. M.'s graceless covenant, but) of all them that believe... | |
| John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of failh. PARAPHRASE. of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had, being yet uncircumcised", that he might be the father of all those who believe, being uncircumcised,... | |
| John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in 11 circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all who believe in uncircumcision, that 12 righteousness... | |
| Moses Mather - Theological anthropology - 1813 - 258 pages
...was that such faith as Abraham had, would justify and save all such as have it. See Rom. iv. 11. " And he received 'the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, being yet uncircumcised." This, instead of being abolished, is the great truth which runs through the... | |
| Missions - 1841 - 712 pages
...expressly pronounced by the apostle to have been both a sign and a seal of spiritual blessings. " Abraham received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, being yet uncircumcised." It was a sign denoting " the putting oft' the body of the sins of the flesh... | |
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