 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their...  The Western Journal - Page 3391851Full view - About this book
 | Jean Calvin, John Allen - Reformed Church - 1816 - 580 pages
...it brings him to a sense of his guilt. This is what Paul means, when he speaks of men's " conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another" (i) before God. A simple knowledge might remain in man as it were in a state of concealment. Therefore... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 536 pages
...His many faultftmay have an influence injurious to the success of science. Who but a fanutick science also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. would wish that this influence should not be averted? Independence and prudence are always associated,... | |
 | John Henry Livingston - Church discipline - 1816 - 192 pages
...these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves; which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or excusing one another," Bom. ii. 14, 15. Those, who affect a distinction between moral laws, and what... | |
 | 1816 - 558 pages
...themselves : which sheweth the work of the law written in their hearts ; their conscience also hearing them witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. So that the gentiles themselves are to he judged hy their sincerity, and not condemned for involuntary... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1790 - 620 pages
...these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and...mean while accusing, or else excusing one another." Yet the very contrary of this rational and apostolical doctrine is expressed in your eighteenth article,... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - Calvinism (anti) - 1817 - 626 pages
...do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not Hie law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another." — V. 13, 14, 15. He applies this reasoning... | |
 | Samuel Chapman Loveland - Congregational churches - 1818 - 250 pages
...those, and those only, "who do by nature the things contained in the law," whose "consciences bear witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another." Experience is too plain to admit that every idle word is brought, even to the bar of conscience, that... | |
 | Samuel Chapman Loveland - Congregational churches - 1818 - 244 pages
...those, and those only, "who do by nature the things contained in the law," whose "consciences bear witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another.'7 Experience is too plain to admit that every idle word is brought, even to the bar of conscience,... | |
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and...mean while accusing or else excusing one another." — Romans ii, 14, 15. It is quite clear from the preceding passage, that the heathen, or gentiles,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...are a law unto themselves : which show the work of the law written in their luarts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing, one another." Human* ii. 14, 15. VOL. 1\. i own virtue. And indeed, it is very improbable that we, who by the strength... | |
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