 | George Pretyman - Calvinism - 1811 - 614 pages
...said this, ' Let us do evil, that good may come (z),' because he had said, 'The (z) Rom. c. 3. v. 8. ' The law entered, that the offence might abound ; but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (a)\ which is true, for this reason, because men receiving the law, who most proudly presumed... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 408 pages
...the race of men, as far as made known to them, even to this day. " The law worketh wrath :" nay, " the law entered, that the offence might " abound: but where sin abounded, grace did much " more abound."1 To speak of the possibility of man's doing what no mere man, out of the innumerable millions... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...particulars, in which we should otherwise have remained ignorant, or have been hewildered in error. " The (i law entered, that the offence might abound ; but " where sin abounded grace did much more abound." ' We should scarcely have discovered this end, which God proposed, in giving the law, by abstract... | |
 | Universalism - 1812 - 292 pages
...disobediance, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound : but...as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord." The Apostle well knowing... | |
 | John Murray - Sermons, American - 1812 - 444 pages
...so by the 'righteousness of God, the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. Moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound, but...as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto life eternal, by Jesus Christ our Lord ; for God hath concluded them... | |
 | Joshua Spalding - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 340 pages
...the design of the giving of the law. Rom. v. 20, 21. " Moreover, the law entered that the of" fence might abound : but where sin abounded, " grace did...sin " hath reigned unto death, even so might grace " reign through righteousness unto eternal life, " by Jesus Christ our Lord." And these, indeed, were... | |
 | John Buckworth - 1812 - 340 pages
...remarking that a remedy is provided adequate to our disease: — nay more than adequate ; for, where sin abounded, grace did much more abound ; that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life*." In drawing to a conclusion, we shall briefly attempt... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1812 - 630 pages
...against wilful sin, while we hope to be justified by faith. If we are justified by f tilth jit Chri$t, what shall we say then ? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound ? God forbid ; Rom. vi. 1, 2. III. Besides this same apostle assures us, " tb,at we are chosen, adopted, and forgiven,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...of this and of the next chapter, and finally concludes with these strong and striking expressions: "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound....as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord." In the second Epistle to... | |
 | 1813 - 594 pages
...to God by the death of his Son — by whom we have now received the atonement," Romans v. 10, 11. " What shall we say then, shall we continue in sin that grace may abound ? God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,... | |
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Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound : that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. 
