 | Robert Riccaltoun - Presbyterian Church - 1772 - 496 pages
...Jewifh nation: they had a zeal for God, and fought It If fought after righteoufnefs ; but they fought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. And thus " being " ignorant of the righteoufnefs of God, and going about to eftablifh their own righteoufnefs,... | |
 | Richard Rawlin - Justification (Christian theology) - 1772 - 324 pages
...of righteoufnefs, ' hath not attained to the law of righteoufnefs. ' Wherefore ? becaufe they fought it not by ' faith, but as it were by the works of the law.' Where juftification is not fought in a way of believing, it can never be obtained ; but where fought... | |
 | Jonathan Dickinson - 1772 - 326 pages
...muftespect no better, than lofothw after the lata of right eoitfuefs, and nut atlain lo it, if wefeek it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, Rom. is. ^i, 32. I have already fhe-wa you, Chrifl did not undertake our redemption to the end that... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1773 - 630 pages
...of right eoufnefs , halh not attained, to the law of righteoufnefs. Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law : for they /tumbled at that ftumbling-ftone. It is one of the main differences betwixt the two covenants.... | |
 | John Gill - Baptists - 1773 - 678 pages
...rigbteou/nefs, and purfued it with great vigour and earneftnefs, did not attain unto it, becaufe they fought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law b-, and this is the cafe of every man that takes the fame courfe : nay, it is not only vain and fruitlefs... | |
 | John Fletcher - Justification (Christian theology) - 1775 - 500 pages
...law of righreoufuefs, hath not attained jo the law of righteoufned. Wherefore? Becaufe they fought it not by FAITH, but as it were by the works of the law \_opfafcd to Cbrtftl : for they tumbled at that (tumbling ftone. Rom.ix. 31,32. i. Abraham BELIEVED... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1777 - 528 pages
...they feek to enter in, .but they jhall not be Able, Luke xiii. 24. They feek falvation, but they feek it not by faith ; but, as it -were, by the works of the law. They pretend refpect to the law, and yet affront it by refufmg the only law -biding, law -fulfilling... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 500 pages
...Righteoufnefs, has not attained to the Law of Righteoufnefs ;" Ver. 32, " Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by Faith, but as it were by the Works of the Law." And he is alfo in both Parts of the Epiftfe fpcaking of the fame fubjefts, Gentiles and Jews ; and... | |
 | Robert Macculloch - Bible - 1791 - 750 pages
...upright, he is our rock, and there is no unrighteoufnefs in him. * attain to it; becaufe they fought it not by faith, ' but as it were by the works of the law: for they ' ltumbled at that flurflbiing-ftone*.' Falfe notions of the great promiled Meffiah, of the... | |
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But Israel, which followed after the law 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. 
