| Edward Harley - 1730 - 332 pages
...hey which are of the Law be HKIRS, FAITH is made void, and the PROMISE made of none 1.1feft. 6 'And he BELIEVED in the LORD ; and he counted it to him for RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7 And he faid unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of the Land of Ur of the... | |
| Jonathan Dickinson - 1772 - 326 pages
...t» thy feed after the:. And it was more than fo long before this, that Abraham had this left imony given him in Gen. xv. 6. That he believed in the Lord: and be counted it to him for rightcoufnefs. Yea, he was a belie?er fo long bsfore, as hisfirft leaving... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 278 pages
...inherit from the great patriarch Abraham, from whom we are defcended; for of him it is recorded, " And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteoufnefs*." And therefore, * Genefis xv. 6. having Co bright an example continually1 before us, we cannot, without... | |
| Richard Watson - 1791 - 506 pages
...the flars, if thou be able to number them : And he.faid unto him, So ihall thy- feed be." Here again, he believed in the Lord ; and he counted it to him for rlghteaujnefs. Alfa Gen. xvii. i — 8, he repeats and efhbliiheth the fame covenant " for an pverlafting... | |
| Richard Watson - 1791 - 500 pages
...him and his Poiterity] unto all Generations for evermore." So, 332. Gen. xv. 6. " And he [Abraham] believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for Righteoufnefs [Пр"Т2 »? íi*a<«™»4», for Juftification, a Grant of Favour, the Dpnatuw of a Privilege ;... | |
| John Owen - 1797 - 252 pages
...certain that Abraham was juftified many years before ; when that teftimony was given concerning him — " he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteoufnefs." (2.) It is certain, that in the relation of the ftory here repeated by the Apoftle, not a word is fpoken... | |
| Thomas Gisborne - 1799 - 606 pages
...twice renewed to him in terms which foretold an innumerable multitude of dependents : and " Abram " believed in the Lord ; and He counted " it to him for righteoufnefs (f]"i At length about eleven years after his. arrival in Canaan he was rejoiced by the birth of his... | |
| Herman Witsius - 1803 - 476 pages
...who live under the New Testament, through faith. And then Moses declares concerning Abraham, " and he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness," C?en. xv. 6 ; "which the Apostle quotes for the same purpose, Rom. iv. 3. David likewise... | |
| 1804 - 828 pages
...and tell the ftars, tf thou be able to number them : And he faid unto him, fo ftall thy feed be. And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteoufnefs." Gen. xv. 1 6. Again, God had promifed, that, with the very Ifaac, whom he was afterwards called to... | |
| 1804 - 300 pages
...and tell thejiars, if thou be able to number them : and he faid unto him, So Jhall thy feed be. And he believed in the Lord ; and he counted it to him for righteoufrteft. Now the Apoftle makes this in Abraham's faith, which is different from ours, . the... | |
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