| James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...own performance, will never attain it. Observe what the apostle speaketh upon this point : " Israelb which followed after the law of righteousness, hath...by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." This was their stumbling stone, as he there saith. Again, it is the nature of many peevish people amongst... | |
| Johannes Evangelist Gossner - 1799 - 202 pages
...down with his New Testament and lighted on the passage in Rom. ix. 30—33, " What shall we say then ? That the gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,...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 a stumblingstone... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...may be inferred from what St. Paul says of the Jews, Rom. ix. 30, Sec. " The Gentiles (saith he) who followed not after righteousness, have attained to...which is of faith ; but Israel, which followed after righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness." This, you will say, is strange ! What... | |
| 1804 - 438 pages
...left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. 30 What shall we say then ? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,...righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 31 But Israel, which followed "after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like, unto Gomorrha. 30 What shall we say then ? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,...righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Faith - 1805 - 258 pages
...righteousness, have attained to righteousness ; even the righteousness which is of faith: but Israel, •who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not...NOT BY FAITH, but as it were by the works of the law ; for they stumbled at that stumbling.stone.* Though we had not been elsewhere told, that in doing... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Faith - 1805 - 258 pages
...is of faith: but Israel, who followed after the laiv of righteousness, hath not attained to the laiv of righteousness: WHEREFORE ? BECAUSE THEY SOUGHT...NOT BY FAITH, but as it were by the works of the law ; for they stumbled at that stumbling.stone.* Though we had not been elsewhere told, that in doing... | |
| Samuel Barnard - Apologetics - 1806 - 336 pages
...lament the blindness of many of his brethren in the flesh, " But Israel, which followed after tite law of " righteousness, hath not attained to the law...they sought it " not by faith, but as it were, by the work of the " law : for they stumbled at that stumbling stone." Rom. ix. 31, 32. Again, " Brethren,... | |
| Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 388 pages
...were never profited by their most punctual observances of it. This is agreeable to Rom. is. 31, 32. " But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness...by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." And Chap. x. 4. " For Christ is the end of the Jaw for righteousness to every one that believethi"... | |
| Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...his law. But of their labours, we have the fruitlessness on record : " Israel," says the apostle, " which followed after " the law of righteousness, hath...faith, but as it were by the works " of the law."* Such may continue, for a while, to enjoy security in the fabric whieh they have reared. But when the... | |
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