 | Jonathan Dickinson - 1784 - 406 pages
...confiftently with the perfections of the divine nature ; but the former is true, and therefore the latter. If there had been a law given, which could have given...verily righteoufnefs jhould have been by the la-w, Gal. iii. 21. But this was impoflible in the cafe of fallen man, as being utterly- inconliftent with... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1793 - 384 pages
...remilfio? of fins. f Gal. iii. 2i, 22. Is the law then againlt the promifes of God ? God* forbid : for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteemfnefs fhould have been by the law. Bat the fcripture hath concluded ail under fin, that the... | |
 | Sir Adam Gordon - 1795 - 462 pages
...evident, by this argument of St. Paul in the third chapter of the Gal. 2 1 verfe, For if there had teen a law given, which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs Jhould have been by the law. And again, in the - fecond chapter and laft verfe, he confirms his aflertion in thefe words, If righteoufnefs... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1795 - 518 pages
...Abraham by promife :" and why ? Even becaufe it was not poffible to have it by the law, ver. 2i. " For if there had been a law given, which could have given life, then verily righteoufnefs fhould have been by the law :" but fo it is, that no law was given, which... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 738 pages
...(he obedience of faith. 9 Gal. iii. 11. Is the law then again ft the piomifes of God ! God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given lite, verily /ighteoufjief ihould have been by the law. 10 Matth. v. 17, 18. Think not that I am come... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 666 pages
...end ? tion fince the fall; Gal. Hi. 21, 22. Is the law then againft the promifes of God ? God forbid! for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs would have been by the law ; but the fcripture hath concluded all under fin, that the nromite by faith... | |
 | James Barr Walker - 1799 - 200 pages
...sin and, death," etc. And mark again — " Is the law then against the promises of God 1 God forbid : for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law, (that is, while the law showed the soul to be unholy and... | |
 | George Redford - 1843 - 188 pages
...Lord Jesus Christ. If there had been any possibility of a sinner's restoring and saving himself — " if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness (justifying) should have been by the law," Gal. iii. 21 ; but then there would have been... | |
 | Hermann Andreas Pistorius - 1801 - 360 pages
...happinefs, through faith in a divine guide, be annulled by this intervening ordinance ? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have...verily righteoufnefs Jhould have been by the law. But this actually would have been the cafe, could the intervening law, as it gave moral inftructions,... | |
 | David Hartley - 1801 - 362 pages
...happinefs, through faith in a divine j;uide, be annulled by this intervening ordinance ? "Gid forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have...verily righteoufnefs Jhould have been by the law. But this actually would have been the cafe, could the intervening law, as it gave moral inftructions,... | |
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Is the law then against the promises of God ? " God forbid : for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. 
