| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1712 - 480 pages
...can, according to God's ordinary way of working, come to the Knowledge of the Truth, and be faved : For faith comes by Hearing, and Hearing by the Word of God, Rom. 10. 17. But yet they are not infeparable Concomitants of this State. Many enjoy the Ordinances and... | |
| Matthew Hole - 1732 - 382 pages
...them to hear Sermons, and bring them as foon as poffible to God's Houfe to be farther inftrufled : For Faith comes by Hearing, and Hearing by the Word of God, Rom. 10. 7. Sermons are appointed to lead them on to greater Perfection, that have been before initiated... | |
| John Bunyan - 1795 - 400 pages
...adamantine chains fhall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound." MKssIAH. (a) " Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God," Rom. x. 17. Chrift, as the Saviour of loft flnners, is the fum and fubftance of the Bible. " Search the fcript-ures,"... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 540 pages
...— And it imports thefe four things. i. The objective external revelation in a -divine tefUmony ; " Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God," Rom. x. 17. 2. It imports an internal revelation of what is outwardly revealed; for, " God reveals them to us by... | |
| John Mannock - 1815 - 352 pages
...increases and brings it to perfection in our souls, by pious" reading and spiritual instruction ; J^iii'i comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Rom. x. 17. What you now hear, take it as from God, to improve and enlighten your faith. Faith is as a light to... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...to them ; nor could they hear it preached, unless some were commissioned to preach the gospel ; (or faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God,' Rom. x. 14-, 15, 16, 17. And, for this cause, says he, thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received... | |
| John Mannock - Catechisms - 1825 - 286 pages
...he increases and brings it to perfection in our souls, by pious reading jmd spiritual instruction ; Faith ,comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Rom. x. 17. What you now hear, take it as from God, to improve and enlighten your faith. Faith is as a light to... | |
| 692 pages
...honour as a brother. ORIGINAL SERMONS BY THE REV. MATT. HENRY. DISCOURSE THE SECOND. Octoher 22, 1699. " Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." — Rom. x. 17. DOCT. 1. That the word of God is given to the children of men. God has heen graciously pleased to speak... | |
| John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 686 pages
...purchase in their behalf by Jesus Christ, to be made known to them by the word, that they might believe; 'for faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God;' Rom. x. 4.15. For if these things be not made known and revealed to all, and every one that is concerned in... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...They have not all obeyed the gospel ; for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report ? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Rom. vi. 17 : x. 12 — 17. Gal. iii. 1. Now what can we infer from such language of the Holv Spirit, but... | |
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