 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 460 pages
...WHAT SHALL WE BAT THEN ? THAT 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 HfcllK BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW. ROMANS IX. 30, 31. EXTRACT OF THE REV. <JOHH WESJLEY'S PREFACE TO HIS... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 520 pages
...Jews, Rom. ix. 31, 32. " But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought it, not by £ath, but as it were by the works of the law ; for they stumbl?d at that stumbling stone." Together... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...Jews, Rom. ix. 31, 32. " But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought it, not by fuith, but as it were by the works of the law ; for they stumbled at that stumbling stone." Together... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...which followed after the. law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Ver. 32. Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but...the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone. Phil. iii. 4. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 540 pages
...law of righteousness,hathnotattaincd to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they »ought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the...law : for they ' stumbled at that stumbling-stone ; pa, c o'a av , xai ¿c Го/iíOppa av 3u Tt OW SfOVfiev ; ótt ^rç étíoxoiTa •'':>:..xarsTiaSe... | |
 | Robert Trail - 1810 - 612 pages
...attained to the law of righteousness. The cause of Israel's missing righteousness, he gives verse 32. Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law ; for they did not build and believe on Christ as a foundation, but stumbled at him as a stumbling-stone. A most... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Calvinism - 1810 - 418 pages
...perfons; which the Gentiles, who fubmitted to the gofpel, were. And wherefore? Becaufe they fought it not by faith, but as it "were by the works of the law? For they jlumbled at that jl ambling jlone* Yet Paul in the fame chapter, and in the moft folemn manner, declared,... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 458 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.... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...righteousness which is of faith: But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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What shall we say then ? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith ; but Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.... 
