 | 1829 - 516 pages
...four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect, for if the inheritance be of the law it is no more...of promise, BUT GOD GAVE IT TO ABRAHAM BY PROMISE," Gal. Hi. 16, 18. From this it is evident, that the seed spoken of was the seed of Abraham ; that: the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 574 pages
...donation and free gift of God settled on Abraham and his seed by promise." [423] Gal. iii. 19, 20. " It was added because of transgressions, till the seed...Mediator is not a Mediator of one, but God is one." The apostle's design in mentioning the law's being ordained in the hand of a Mediator, is to show the... | |
 | John Whitley - 1830 - 582 pages
...holy place f ." " Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it J." " Wherefore then serveth the law ? It was added because...it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator §." " How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1830 - 482 pages
...hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For i the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of Promise...Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law ? It v/a« added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise wai made; and... | |
 | Edward Fisher - 1830 - 432 pages
...to the former, as subservient unto it; to turn their eyes towards the promise, or covenant of grace, God gave it to Abraham by promise. " Wherefore then...because of transgressions, till the seed should come," Gal 3: 18, 19. So it was unto the promise given to Abraham, that this subservient covenant was added;... | |
 | John Platts - 1833 - 504 pages
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 | S. Lee - 1830 - 510 pages
...eternal life to a sinless obedience, but to nothing short of that. And at the 18th verse, it is said, — "For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...promise ; but God gave it to Abraham by promise." The inheritance of God's kingdom, and its blessings, therefore, are obtained by promise; not by the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 574 pages
...four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect ; for if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...of promise, but God gave it to Abraham by promise." Mr. Locke paraphrases it thus, "•This therefore, I say, that the law, which was not till four hundred... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold - 1830 - 492 pages
...preached,) we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed." " Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added, because...the seed should come, to whom the promise was made." Thus you see, that what men make an objection, is a part of the divine plan; what they account foolishness,... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - 1831 - 316 pages
...death, even so might grace reign, through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Wherefore, then, serveth the law ? It was added because...the seed should come, to whom the promise was made." Rom. v. 20, 21.' Gal. iii. 19. St. Paul says; "Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in... | |
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And this I say, That the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more... 
