 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law, ROMANS 4 1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?  Essays to Do Good - Page 60by Cotton Mather - 1825 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Mason - 1765 - 522 pages
...brings forth sin," James i. 15. But grace, conceived in the heart, brings forth holiness. " Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid: yea, we establish the law," Rom. iii. 31. How ? as a covenant of work to us? No ; that it was to our dear Surety. " Christ is the... | |
 | Martin Madan - 1780 - 452 pages
...condemned by the law of Mofes, is to make him aft inconfiftently with his owri declaration, Rom. iii. 31. Do we make void the law through faith?— GoD forbid ! yea — we eflablijh the law. It is to make him tranfgrefs the law, by defpifing that folemn fandlion, which equally... | |
 | 1796 - 612 pages
...understand by faith, considered, in ppposition to the law — and then endeavour to answer the inquiry, "Do we' make void the law through faith? God forbid! yea, we establish the law." Each of these topics the preacher ilfmtr*tes by a suitable •• induction of particulars; clearly... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1795 - 582 pages
...and fo he is dead to the law." K 2 Now, Now, does this doctrine deflroy our living to God ? Nay, " Do we make void the law, through faith ? God forbid ! Yea, we eftabHfh the law :" We efUblifh it as a covenant of works, while we believe in Chrift 'for righteoufnefs,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1801 - 138 pages
...the gospel, which was expressly intended to " magnify the law and make it honourable." " Do we " then make void the law through faith ? God forbid ; " yea we establish the law." A dead faith, a presumptuous confidence, selfish affections, and formal worship and obedience, is the... | |
 | 1842
...of the scripture doctrine of justification, and the language of St. Paul, Rom. iii. 31, " Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid : yea, we establish the law," — shall be given in the words, substantially at least, of a living metropolitan divine — ' Faith... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...God which shall justify the circumcision by fjiith, and uncircumcision through faith. 3 1 Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid : yea, we establish the law. CHAP. IV. Righteousness imputed by faith. WHAT shall we then say, that Abraham, our father as pertaining... | |
 | John Allen - 1802 - 1326 pages
...received from man, though he had never finned, but obeyed the law perfectly for ever, Rom. iii. 31.' Do we make void the law through faith, God forbid, yea, we fftablijh the law ; in all the demands and perfections of it, by the obedience and facrifice of the... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1803 - 476 pages
...which satisfaction was made by the mediator. This is the Apostle's meaning, Rom. iii. 3i. " Do wo then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea> we establish the law." And again, Rom. viii. 4. " That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled iu us." Which signifies... | |
 | William Mason - 1803 - 400 pages
...forth sin."... .James i. 15. But grace conceived in the heart, brings forth holiness. " Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: Yea, •we establish the law.".... Rom. iii. 3 1 . How ? as a covenant of works to us? No; that it was our dear surety. " Christ is the... | |
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