 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...Faith is a sincere seeking righteousness and salvation, of Christ, and in Christ. Rom. ix. 31, 32. " Hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...favour by the fulfilling thereof, have not at all attained to the state of Righteousness. IX. 32, 33 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone ; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...their own righteousness as fatal to the Jews, Rom. ix. 3 1 , 32. " But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law...they sought it, not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law ; for they stumbled at that stumbling stone." Together with chap. x. Terse 3. " For... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 460 pages
...EXTRACT REV. JOHN WESLEY'S JOURJVdLJL. WHAT SHALL WE BAT THEN ? THAT ISRAEL WHICH FOLLOWED AFTER THE LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, HATH NOT ATTAINED TO THE LAW...WHEREFORE? BECAUSE THEY SOUGHT IT NOT BY FAITH, BUT AS IT HfcllK BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW. ROMANS IX. 30, 31. K g ' EXTRACT OF THE RET. JOHN WESLEY'S PREFACE... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 512 pages
...righteousness, have attained to righteousness. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, have not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 520 pages
...asserted as in the Iwq last verses but one of the foregoing chapter. "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore. ? I Jecause they sought it rtot by Lith, but as it were by the works of the law." And it is very unreasonable,... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...the certainty of such disrecommended and enforced. 475 appointment. Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law...they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the wor/cs of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling stone*. Surely such as tread in Israel's steps,... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1810 - 548 pages
...art not my wife, and 1 am not thy husband," Hosea ii. 1. And thus "Israel, which followed after the law 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." Thu»... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...which followed after the. law of 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... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 540 pages
...Israel, which followed after the law 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... | |
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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.... 
