| Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...Phil. iii. 3 — 7. After the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. Acts xxvi. 5. If there had been a law given, which could have given...righteousness should have been by the law. But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1822 - 444 pages
...a mediator of one ; but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God ? God forbid ; for if there had been a law given which could have given...righteousness should have been by the law. But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by faith of Jesus Christ, might be given... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...justification by it. See Gal. iii. 21. " Is the law then against the promises of God ? God forbid : for if there had been a law given, which could have given...verily righteousness should have been by the law." Rom. iii. 20. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for... | |
| Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...that doeth them shall live in them. Is the law then against the promises of God ? God forbid : for if there had been a law given which could have given...verily righteousness should have been by the law. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.... | |
| 1883 - 1030 pages
...the inner springs of action, tnd to give energy to the will and control the passions. ' If there bad been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.' But to give life is beyond the province of law, whether human or Divine. ' To save that which is lost '... | |
| Charles Wesley - 2001 - 422 pages
...rigour of the law, St. Paul proveth in his epistle to the Galatians, saying thus: 'If there had been any law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law'.'96 And again he saith, 'If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain'.'97 And... | |
| Robert Farrar Capon - 2002 - 536 pages
...works, it would have been saved an hour and twenty minutes after Moses came down from Mt. Sinai. "For if there had been a law given which could have given...righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to... | |
| Alonzo T. Jones - 2002 - 220 pages
...attaining unto the promises. The divine reason here given as to why the law is not against the promises is that "if there had been a law given which could have given life." then "verily righteousness should have been by the law." And if righteousness had been by the law.... | |
| Charles Grandison Finney - 2003 - 1386 pages
...not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law, then, against the promises of God? God forbid, for if there had been a law given which could have given...verily righteousness should have been by the law. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith."... | |
| 230 pages
...centers in the person of Jesus Christ. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given...righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to... | |
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