 | 1826 - 600 pages
...next verse : ' And the Scripture was fulfilled, which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness ; and he was called the friend of God.' We may conclude, perhaps, from all this, that God did require both a righteousness and piety which... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1826 - 858 pages
...soul ? " And the Scripture was fulfilled," which saith, " Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness :" and he was called the friend of God. " Ye see then, how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." Ye see that by works a... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1828 - 476 pages
...perfect ? And the scripture was "fulfilled, which saith, Abraham believed " God, and it was imputed unto him for " righteousness, and he was called the " friend of God." The same character of a saving faith is maintained throughout the whole of the New Testament: and its visible... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1828 - 508 pages
...Homilies, p. 39. 23. And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness ; and he was called the friend of God. As this verse has been fully discussed in its connexion with the twenty-first, it would only be a superfluous... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1828 - 46 pages
...made perfect, and the scripture was fulfilled, which saitft, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God. You see, then, hmu by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. The Romanists triumph here,... | |
 | Rev. Jonathan Dickinson - 1829 - 520 pages
...23d verse, " And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God." There can be nothing more pertinent, natural, and easy, than the application of these words to the... | |
 | John Fuller - 1829 - 448 pages
...perfect ? And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed in God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.' ' As the body without the spirit is dead ; so faith without works is dead also.' Working and moving... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...faith made perfect : and the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God." James ii. 14 — 26. The question' to be resolved in the decision of every man's doom at the day of... | |
 | 1830 - 136 pages
...they enjoy his favour? F. Assuredly. It is repeatedly said, " Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God." E. But Abraham was a good man, and not like many of the wicked characters that we read of in the Bible.... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 610 pages
...exceeding respect and affecJam. ii. »j. tion toward God : Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God ; it was a great evidence Rom.k.is, of his friendship, that against hope he believed in "'*2' hope,... | |
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Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness : and he was called the friend of God. 
