 | John Gill - Baptists - 1810 - 626 pages
...this testament, are owing to the good will of the testator, and not to any merit in the legatees : For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect ; If ike inheritance be of the law, or to be obtained by the works of it, It is no more of promise;... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 502 pages
...and the Truth, and the Life. John xiv. 6, • <- » * r 433 SERMON XXXI, The Case of the Law Stated. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect. Rom. iv. 14, <• 444 SERMON XXXII, Rahab and Jericho. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, a'er... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1810 - 548 pages
...xi. 6. (c) We have then no need of forgiveness of sins, contrary to Psalm xxx. 4. (d) " If they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect," Rom. iv. 14. (e) Humility, the greatest virtue of Christianity, is then banished out of the church,... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 540 pages
...he had' being yet uncircumcisecl. 1 3 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, iva/, not to Abraham, or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they which are of the law, be heirs, faith is mude void, and the promise made of none effect.... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 472 pages
...covenant he -will never subscribe to, though we should sign it with onr hearts blood, Rom. iv. 14, 16. " For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect. — Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...bondwoman and her son : for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my sony even with Isaac." " For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect." "Cast out the scorner," says Wisdom, "and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease/'... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 462 pages
...that you have quoted plainly prove, for they say, that " God gave it to Abraham by promise ;" and " if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect ;" and again, " they which are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham," this is plainly proved.... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised, and declares that the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to him, or to his seed, through the law, Rom. iv. 12, 13; and yet affirms, that as many as are of faith... | |
 | John Smith - Bible - 1812 - 286 pages
...faith. Such a condition was consistent with the covenant's being a gracious covenant. — Says Paul, " The promise, that he should be the heir of the world,...through the righteousness of faith. For, -if they," who " are of the law, be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of" no " effect. Because the... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. 13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the...through the law, but through the righteousness of failh. PARAPHRASE. of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had, being yet... | |
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For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 
