 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...be good, and hope to be saved ; but they attain not their desires. What is the reason ? " They seek it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law." Rom. ix. 31. Avoid this rock, on which so many split ; and remember that the first business in religion... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 486 pages
...lily, being the gift of God, they who trust not in God for it will be left destitute.-— The Jews, who sought it not by Faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law, going about to establish their own righteousness, have reduced themselves to a miserable condition.... | |
 | Alexander Fraser - 1802 - 498 pages
...: *f But Ifrael 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. — For they, being ignorant " of God's righteoufnefs, and going about to *' eftablifh their own righteoufnefs, have... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 pages
...law 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." Turtles were accepted on the altar ' at Jerufalem, when bullocks were reje£ted on thefe at Dan and... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works cf the law for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone ; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay inSion a... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1803 - 486 pages
...law of righteoufnels, 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 : for they ftumbled at that ftumbling ftone " To the lame purpofe it is, that, Gal. iv. 24, 25. he compares to... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1803 - 408 pages
...rcjected the law of faith, and followed after righteoufnefs, and obtained it not, becaufe they fought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. They, being ignorant of God's righteoufnefs, went about, or attempted, to eftablifh their own righteoufnefs.... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but...the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone ; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of offence : and whosoever... | |
 | William Jay - 1805 - 486 pages
...of righ" teoufnefs, hath not attained to the law of righteouf" nefs. Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by " faith, but as it were by the works of the law, for " they ftumbled at that ftumbling-ftone ; as it is writ." ten, behold I lay in Zion a ftumbling-ftone, and... | |
 | 1805 - 298 pages
...righteousness, but do not, and cannot, cannot, attain to the law of righteousness : Wherefore? Because they seek it, not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law ; for they stumble at that stumbling stone. — It may also be noted that one error is ill supplied by another.... | |
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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. 
