 | John Gill - Baptists - 1810 - 626 pages
...this testament, are owing to the good will of the testator, and not to any merit in the legatees : For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect ; If ike inheritance be of the law, or to be obtained by the works of it, It is no more of promise;... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1810 - 548 pages
...xi. 6. (c) We have then no need of forgiveness of sins, contrary to Psalm xxx. 4. (d) " If they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect," Rom. iv. 14. (e) Humility, the greatest virtue of Christianity, is then banished out of the church,... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 540 pages
...he had' being yet uncircumcisecl. 1 3 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, iva/, not to Abraham, or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they which are of the law, be heirs, faith is mude void, and the promise made of none effect.... | |
 | John Gill - Baptists - 1810 - 620 pages
...good will of the testator, and not to any merit in the legatees : For if they rvhich are of the law te heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect ; If the inheritance be of the law, or to be obtained by the works of it, It is no more of promise... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...bondwoman and her son : for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my sony even with Isaac." " For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect." "Cast out the scorner," says Wisdom, "and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease/'... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 472 pages
...covenant he -will never subscribe to, though we should sign it with onr hearts blood, Rom. iv. 14, 16. " For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect. — Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised, and declares that the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to him, or to his seed, through the law, Rom. iv. 12, 13; and yet affirms, that as many as are of faith... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 462 pages
...doctrine sets aside the bounties of mercy and the benefits of the cross at once, for " if they that are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise of God of none effect." This is Antinomianism ; and wo to such Antinomians as make void either the... | |
 | John Smith - Bible - 1812 - 286 pages
...faith. Such a condition was consistent with the covenant's being a gracious covenant. — Says Paul, " The promise, that he should be the heir of the world,...through the righteousness of faith. For, -if they," who " are of the law, be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of" no " effect. Because the... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. 13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world,...through the law, but through the righteousness of failh. PARAPHRASE. of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had, being yet... | |
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For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 
