| J. B. Drayton - 1821 - 240 pages
...CHRIST and the new covenant in his blood, are entangled in a fatal error. They seek the blessing " not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Not ev'n Perdition's gulpb rent at his feet, Had Christian more appall'd : — Instant he waits A fiery... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...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; for they stumbled at that stumbling stone; as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone,... | |
| Thomas Young - Bible - 1822 - 348 pages
...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 : for they stumbled at that stumblingstone." (ix. 30,31,32.) And again: "For I * ID opposition to the... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 312 pages
...Israel of old followed after the law of righteousness, but did not attain it, " because they sought it not by' faith, but as it were by the works of the law." Is not this too much your case ? Be not mistaken ; prayer is good as the means of obtaining grace ;... | |
| William Paley - Bible - 1822 - 282 pages
...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 annex to this declaration these conciliating... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 330 pages
...Israel of old followed after the law of righteousness, but did not attain it, " because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." Is not this too much your case ? Be not mistaken ; prayer is good as the means of obtaining grace ;... | |
| Ellet Joseph Waggoner, E. J. Waggoner - Religion - 2011 - 164 pages
...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. For they stumbled at that {109} stumbling-stone;-stone; as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a Stumbling-stone... | |
| 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
...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... | |
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