 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 506 pages
...Ifrael, which followed the Law of Righleoufnefs, has not attained to the Law of Righteoufnefs ;" Ver. 32, Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by Faith, but as it were by jhe Works Of t|le Law.» And he is alfo in both Parts of the Epiftle 'Peking of the fame fubjeib, Gentiles... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - 1793 - 554 pages
...and can make nothing of it. So faith the Apoftle, of thofe here under cenfure, Rom. ix. 31. " Ifrael, which followed after " the law of righteoufnefs, hath not attained to the ' " law of righteoufnefs." They were hard in the purfuit (AJU'KUI') tugging at it all their days ; and yet it would never do.... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1793 - 384 pages
...heaven, faying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleafed. » Rom. ix. 31, ^2, 33. But Ifrael, which followed after the law of righteoufnefs, hath not attained to the law of iigh. teoufnefs. Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought h not by faith) but as it were by the works of the... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - 1794 - 738 pages
...Ifrael, who followed after the law of righ* teoufnefs, and attained not to the law of righteouf* nefs. Wherefore ? Becaufe they fought it not by * faith,...the works of the law: for ' they ftumbled at that fturubling-ftone; as it is writ* ten, * Behold, I lay in Zion a ftumbling-frone, and ' rock of offence:... | |
 | William Paley - 1796 - 448 pages
...the law of righteoufnefs, ** had not attained to the law of righteouf" nefs, becaufe they fought knot by faith, " but as it were by the works of the law, ** for they ftumbled at that ftumbling-ftone," he takes care to annex to this declaration thefe thefe conciliating expreffions :... | |
 | Oliver Heywood - 1796 - 272 pages
...Vain man, delift; fuch flatt'ring hopes forego; It flows, and flows, and will forever flow. " Ifrael, which followed after the law of righteoufnefs, hath...not attained to the law of righteoufnefs. Wherefore? OTI HX EX wrswr, becaufe they fought it not in the way of faith, but as it were by the works of the... | |
 | Oliver HEYWOOD - 1796 - 274 pages
...Vain man, deiift ; fuch flatt'ring hopes forego: Jt flows, and flows, and will forever flow. " Ifrad, which followed after the law of righteoufnefs, hath...not attained to the law of righteoufnefs. Wherefore? On »x EX «ri$-s«y, becaufe they fought it not in the way of faith, but as it were by the works of... | |
 | John Gill - 1796 - 498 pages
...contrary, so stout-hearted, and far from this way of righteousness, are men, that they seek justification, not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law, and go about to establish their own righteousness, and will not submit to the righteousness of Christ.... | |
 | John Wesley - 1797 - 514 pages
...righteoufnefs, have attained to righteoufnefs. But Ifrael which followed after the law of righteoufhefs, have not attained to the law of righteoufnefs. Wherefore...faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law.'' Sunday 9. I expounded in the evening to a fmall, but deeply-ferious company, on, " There is one Mediator... | |
 | John Owen - 1797 - 252 pages
...righteoufnefs, have attained to righteoufnefs, even the rightecufnefs which is of faith : But Jfrael, which followed after the law of righteoufnefs, hath not attained to the law of righteoufnefs j" that is, to righteoufntfs itfelf before God. Nothing feems to be more contrary to reafon, than what... | |
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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. 
