| William Paley - 1815 - 552 pages
...faith without the deeds of the law," than he checks himself as it were, by subjoining this proviso : " Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid : yea, we establish the law." Whatever he meant by his assertion concerning faith, he takes care to let them... | |
| Robert Hall - 1815 - 260 pages
...the faith ot the gospel he denies with holy vehemence, and rejects the very idea with indignation. Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid : Yea, we establish the law ; Rom. iii. 31. See a sermon on this text, by the Rev. C. Evans, intituled, The Law... | |
| Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 416 pages
...many plants of righteousness, must grow on Calvary, and be nourished with the blood of its cross. " Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid ; yea, we establish the law." 3. We learn from this doctrine the importance of being wholly occupied in the duties... | |
| William Brown (M.D.) - 1816 - 542 pages
...df it in the human heart, by the agency of his blessed Spirit and Gospel. Hence the apostle adds, " Do we then make void the Law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the Law," and " We know that the Law is good, if a man use it lawfully." (Rom. Hi. 31 —... | |
| 1816 - 566 pages
...that he is " not without law to God, but under the law to Christ ;" and, with the apostle, he says, " Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid : yea, we establish the law." His obedience to the law now springs from new motives — from love and gratitude,... | |
| 1817 - 610 pages
..."Wherefore," says the apostle Paul, "the law is holy, and. the commandment holy, and just, and good." "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, we establish the law." Thus disposed toward the law, therefore, none can hope, by the provisions of the... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
..."that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law," he presently subjoins, ver. 31. " Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid ! Yea ¡гее establish the laze." In the serenth chap, when in ver. 6. he had advanced the bold assertion,... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1818 - 432 pages
...promises does in fact establish the law. To this effect are the words of the Apostle to the Romans ; " Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid ! yea, we establish the law." Moreover Jesus himself said ; w Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 632 pages
...obedience. This objection St. Paul foresaw, and thought proper to anticipate, in this passage of Scripture : Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid: yea, we establish the /are. As if he had said, From the doctrine of justification by faith without works, which... | |
| 1824 - 496 pages
...contradistinguished from the gospel, grace, or faith, it is not repealed, but established. Thus St. Paul, " Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid : yea, we establish the law." The moral law must be here understood, as the apostle did make void the ceremonial... | |
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