 | Church of England articles - 1821 - Liczba stron: 234
...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. Rom. ix. 31, 32. d A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. John iii. 27. How... | |
 | Lady Darcy Maxwell, Rev. John Lancaster, John Lancaster - 1821 - Liczba stron: 406
...than this : but I am afraid of your seeking it the wrong way. Here is the danger, that you should seek it, not by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. See how exactly the apostle speaks : you do not seek it directly, but as "it were by works. I fear... | |
 | Willis Harris - 1821 - Liczba stron: 344
...law of righteousness;" have not found out God's way of saving sinners. And " wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law:"—they did not perceive that its works, or prescribed religious observances, were intended to... | |
 | David Russell - 1821 - Liczba stron: 342
...been distressed, and striving for relief, have found peace by the discovery that they were seeking it, " not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." They have been taught of God, that, whatever may have been their guilt, the blessings of the Gospel... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - Liczba stron: 480
...setting the traditions of the elders on a level with the commands of God, and seeking righteousness, not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. Some professing Christians would join their OWH works to the righteousness of Christ, as the ground... | |
 | J. B. Drayton - 1821 - Liczba stron: 240
...CHRIST and the new covenant in his blood, are entangled in a fatal error. They seek the blessing " not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Not ev'n Perdition's gulpb rent at his feet, Had Christian more appall'd : — Instant he waits A fiery... | |
 | Nick Harrison - 1998 - Liczba stron: 500
...is, therefore, no need to struggle for self-improvement first, for that is to seek the Holy Spirit "not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law" (Rom. 9:32). Nor is there any need to wait for Him, as some have thought — no need to wait, that... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - Liczba stron: 552
...freed from, sin. Neither had I the witness of the Spirit with my spirit, and indeed could not; for I "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... | |
 | Frederick A. Dreyer - 1999 - Liczba stron: 156
...with, not freed from sin." He lacked the witness of the Spirit and knew not how to obtain it. "For I 'sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.'"51 Belief was something Bohler urged on Wesley as an alternative to the BuSkampf. In Wesley's... | |
 | Dick Iverson, Bill Scheidler - 2000 - Liczba stron: 114
...law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone. As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone... | |
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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. 
