 | Ralph Erskine - 1806 - 338 pages
...of righteoufnefs, hath not attained to the law of righteoufnefs. Wherefore ? becaufe they fought i: not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. Chap. x. 3, 1Crael being ignorant of God's righteoufnefs and going about to eftablifh their own righteoufnefs,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...day. Rom. ix. 31. Israel hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Ver. 32. Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. xi. 20. Because of unbelief the Jews were broken off. xiv. 23. He that doubteth is damned if he eat,... | |
 | Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - 1807 - 388 pages
...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." And Chap. x. 4. " For Christ is the end of the Jaw for righteousness to every one that believethi"... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1807 - 678 pages
...folfoweth the law of righteousness, could not attain unto righteousness. Wherefore ? because he sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." Are not these plain words ? that the gentiles, which followed no righteousness nor had any mind thereto,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...thereof, have not at all attained to the state of Righteousness. IX. 32, 33 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone ; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a sttimblingstone and rock... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 512 pages
...Christ. Rom. ix. 31, 32. " 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." See also the promises made, both in the Old Testament and New, to them that seek the Lord. To saving... | |
 | Robert Coutts - 1808 - 460 pages
...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."* Such may continue, for a while, to enjoy security in the fabric whieh they have reared. But when the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 578 pages
...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," &c. And in the 3d verse of this chapter, " For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going... | |
 | John Wesley - 1809 - 512 pages
...law of righteousness, have 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. Sunday 9, T expounded in the evening to a small, but deeply serious company, on, There is one Mediator... | |
 | John Wesley - 1809 - 460 pages
...from sin: Neither had I the witness of the Spirit with my spirit. And indeed could not : for HI sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the Law." 11. In my return to England, January 1738, being in imminent danger of death, and very uneasy on that... | |
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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. 
