 | Edward Cooper - 1810 - 540 pages
...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 wor/cs of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling stone*. Surely such as tread in Israel's steps,... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 548 pages
...of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? because they sought n by faith, but as it were by the works of the law ; for the? stumbled at that stumblingstone." Thu» Paul speaks, Rom. ix. 31, 33. How long was the free Sarah,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...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...by the works of the law ; for they stumbled at that stumbling stone," Rom. ix. 30 — 32. And this is the stone that the Arminians have stumbled at to... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 408 pages
...Israel, which followed " after the law of righteousness, hath not attained " to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because " they sought it not by faith,...the " works of the law : for they stumbled at that stum" bling-stone."J Was any true believer ever excluded from justification, because he had not pre*... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...claim, are said by the apostle Paul to have " attained unto righteouness ; but Israel did not attain it. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law. For they slum bled at that stumbling stone." It eeems necessary, therefore, to limit the meaning of the expression,... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 536 pages
...opposition to the works of the law, or obedience to a covenant of works, in the following words, " Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law."J To seek righteousness, as it were by the works of the law, is to do works, or attempt acts of... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...apostle's design in this and the fol•_. 1__ . • . I .1 1 „!__ * _ * _ fT f 1 _• »__ TEXT. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it, not by faith, but...the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone. S3 As it is written, Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of offence : and whosoever believed]... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 520 pages
...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...the law; for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone.' It is one of the main differences betwixt the two covenants. In the first, man's works were to be accepted,... | |
 | William Paley - 1812 - 586 pages
...Israel, which follow. ed after the law of righteousness, had not attained to the law of righteousness, because they sought it not by faith, but as it were...by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling stone," he takes care to annex to this declaration these conciliating expressions : " Brethren,... | |
 | 1812 - 292 pages
...Israel which followel 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 l»w : for they atu rout the stumbling stone." Look at the llth chapter and llth> verse, and see how... | |
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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. 
