 | Robert Trail - 1810 - 530 pages
...The glory of grace is the design of all the making of promises, and performance of all the promises : Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace...the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, Rom. iv. 1 6. It is by promise ; this promise is by grace, that it may be sure to all the seed. If... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Baptism - 1811 - 176 pages
...Gentiles through Christ — that the promise made to Abraham is sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but to that also which is of...Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, / have made thee a father of many nations — that they who are of faith are the children of Abraham,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 462 pages
...law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect; because the law worketh wrath. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace;...the end the promise might be sure to all the seed," Rom. iv. 13 — 16*. Thus you see we have made shift to bring even Moses himself on our side of the... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 472 pages
...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,...the end the promise might be sure to all the seed." Chap. xi. 6. " And if by grace, then it is no more of works ; otherwise grace is no more grace. But... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 476 pages
...if they which are of the law be heirs, faith i& made void, and the promise made of none effect.— Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace,...the end the promise might be sure to all the seed." Chap. xi. 6. " And if by grace, then it is no more of works ; otherwise grace is no more grace. But... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...grants us this right; in what way it comes, and how it is secured; namely, by a covenant of promise: " It is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed." But, then, " Should I lie against my right?" No: I should not. But I often have, and so have others... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...and v. 10, 13, 20, and vii. 7, 8, 10, 1 Cor. xv. 56, Gil. iii. 19, John ix. 41, and xv. 22. TEXT. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace;...the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us 'all. 17 (As it is written, " I have made thee a father of many nations") before him whom be believed, even... | |
 | John Smith - Bible - 1812 - 286 pages
...no " effect. Because the law worketh wrath ; for where there is no law, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace...the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all."* Abraham believed, and was circumcised ; and according to the gospel, " He that believeth, and is baptized,... | |
 | Micaiah Towgood - Dissenters - 1812 - 610 pages
...particularly ver. 16, 17- Therefore \t (ie the blessedness, or justification, of the Abrahamic covenant) is of faith, that it might be by grace ; to the end...the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (ie of believing gentiles as well as Jews,) as it is written (GEN. xvii, 5.) 1 have made thee a father... | |
 | Micaiah Towgood - Dissenters - 1812 - 684 pages
...particularly ver. 16, 17. Therefore it (ie the blessedness, or justification, of the Abrahamic covenaqt) is of faith, that it might be by grace ; to the end...to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the faw, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (ie of believing... | |
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Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all... 
