| James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...justification and righteousness are taken for one and the self same thing ; " for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law ;" that is, justification had been by the law. Now as there is a double righteousness, so there is... | |
| John Tillotson - 1748 - 470 pages
...difpenfation, confiding in the purification of the body, Gal. iii. 21. he calls it a law unfit to give life .t If there had been a, law which could have given life, verily. right eoufnefs. had been by thi law. And the Apoftle to the Hebrews, chap. viii. 6, 7, 8, we. finds... | |
| William Warburton - 1765 - 452 pages
...ftate, contradict the GOSPEL, which hath ? The Apoftle's anfwer will ferve me, — God forbid: Fer if there had been a LAW which could have given life, verily rig&teoufnefsjbould have been by the LAW '. That is, if the genius of the Law had produced fuch a Difpenfation... | |
| James Barr Walker - 1799 - 206 pages
...— " Is the law then against the promises of God ? God forbid : for if there bad been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law, (that is, while the law showed the soul to be unholy and condemned to spiritual death, it provided... | |
| James Barr Walker - 1799 - 200 pages
...— " Is the law then against the promises of God 1 God forbid : for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law, (that is, while the law showed the soul to be unholy and condemned to spiritual death, it provided... | |
| 1805 - 590 pages
...was of absolute necessity that Christ should die, the just for the unjust to bring sinners to God. If there had been a law which could have given life, verily righteousness should have come by the law. (3.) When Abraham was tried, he withheld not his son, his only son ; and so God spared... | |
| William Jones - 1801 - 302 pages
...imagine that the law and the promise were in opposition : God forbid \ for if there had been a law given, which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law ; it was the most excellent system which could be for the purpose : but from the nature of man that... | |
| Thomas Haweis - 1803 - 344 pages
...It makes no provision for failure : "The wages of sin, of every sin, is death." (Rom. vi. 23.) Now " if there had been a, law which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by this law." (Gal. iii. 21.) Such obedience as this would have given a legal claim to life : we should... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - 1803 - 408 pages
...by becoming in any degree holy and obedient, then they may be faved without Chrift and the gofpel. " If there had been a law which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs mould have been by the law ; and if righteoufnefs come by the law, then Chrift is dead... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...one. 21/5 the law then against the promises of God ? God forbid : lor if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. 22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might... | |
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