 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 pages
...AW, but under GR ACE . " ETERNAL LIFE by Jefas Chrifl GUI' LORD. " Gal. ii. 21. I do not fruftrate the GRACE of GOD: " for if RIGHTEOUSNESS come by the LAW, then Cbrift " is dead in vaiu. "• Chap. viii. n. But if the SPIRIT of Him that et raifed up Jefus from... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God ; for if righteousness come by the law, then Chrikt is dead in vain. CHAP. III. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. O FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1804 - 454 pages
...can do: What need, therefore, upon your scheme, was there of Christ ? And did he not die in vain ? For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in voj'n...Gal, ii. xxi. Now, can your faith in Christ be any more than a mere fancy, when, as it is evident,... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1805 - 514 pages
...call the doctrine of justification bit faiik »io/ig the article of a standing or falling church. ness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Gal. ii. 21.) Therefore it is evident \ve are not justified by the law, or by our works ; but to him who believeth,... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1807 - 428 pages
...the faith, which ZA of the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered him2 1 self up for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God ; for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. REFLECTIONS. Tt is a most generous and woithy spirit that was shewn by the apostle Paul on this occasion,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...life of nature, but of grace, wrought in me by the power of Faith in the Son of God. II. 21 / do not frustrate the grace of God : for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Howsoever other men may be joining Christ and the Law together, I, for my part, will not be so injurious... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1808 - 440 pages
...depart, he is in the utmost danger; tor thus the whole gospel is subverted, as the scripture says ; " if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain," GuI. iii. 1. and ii. 21. - * Christian, convinced of his error, and comforted with the hopes of the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 516 pages
...yourself to God by these means, then you have no need of Christ ; but he is dead in vain : Gal. ii. 21. " If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." If you can do this by your prayers and good works, Christ might have spared his pains, he might have... | |
 | Stephen Lowry - 1809 - 204 pages
...blessedness of the man to \yhom God imputeth righteousness without works; and Paul saith — "I .do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." It is witnessed by the law, and by prophets. The ceremonial law so clearly pointed to Christ, that... | |
 | Robert Hawker - 1810 - 214 pages
...merits of Christ Jesus, may be equally applied to the case of every beKever : « I do not, (says he,) frustrate the grace of God : for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.' My heart rejoiced in the consolation. ' God be adored, I cried, who hath brought me to this place,... | |
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I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God : for... 
