 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...that justification and righteousness are taken for one and the self same thing ; " for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily...righteousness should have been by the law ;" that is, justification had been by the law. Now as there is a double righteousness, so there is also a double... | |
 | James Ussher, Joseph Crabb - 1660 - 432 pages
...righteoufaefie that is in a man if and therer fore in- Gal. 3.1*. they are put for one and the fame thing: Ferif there bad been a Law given which could have given life , verily righteottfneffe had beenty tht Law •-, that is, justification had been by the Law. Again> ifrightewfneffebebythe... | |
 | Daniel Waterland - 1730 - 346 pages
...ialutem fempiternam aflcquerenrur. Shli. ibid. «. xviii. S. a. p fo8 .f Gal.iii. u. * ' jer, to fay ' Jf there bad been a Law given which could have given Life, verily Right eoufnefs Jbould have been by the Law : But the Scripture bath concluded all under Sin,tbat the... | |
 | John Fisher - 1741 - 352 pages
...to perform, nor give us any Promife of eternal Life upon our Performance. (For, as the Apoftle fays, if there bad been a Law given, which could have given Life, verily Righteoufnefs Jhould have been by the Law.} It being thus a Covenant of Works enjoining fIricT: Obedience,... | |
 | James Fisher - 1764 - 312 pages
...under a la%v that can give life, beflde the law of -fait k, mentioned Rom. iii. 27. which is falfe ;for if there bad been a law given, -which could have given life, verily right eoufnefs jhould have been by the law, Gal. iii. 2i. Qucft. 13. What improvement ought -we to... | |
 | James Hervey - 1767 - 464 pages
...the Flejb\ through the Corruption and Infirmity of human Nature. Therefore, in another Place He adds; IF there bad been a Law given, which could have given Life f. 84 A * Rom. viii. 3. To a$v>»lt>t xa »o/n», fays the Apoftle. Which reads flat in our Verfion,... | |
 | Richard Rawlin - 1772 - 324 pages
...had had a valid claim to all the bleffings, that were promifed in it ; as the Apoftle argues, that if there bad been a law given which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs Jhoutd have been by .the law, Gal. iii. 2i. But inftead of this, how muft we now drop... | |
 | Timothy Neve - 1781 - 264 pages
...plenitude of this teftimony, we may remain fatisfied with the apoftolical aflertion in the text, that if there bad been a law given which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs Jhould have been by the Jaw. But as both Jews and Gentiles are all under Jin* \ it is... | |
 | James Barr Walker - 1799 - 200 pages
...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...; no influence by which love and holiness could be produced in the heart.) But the Scripture, (that is, the revelation of law in the Scriptures,) hath... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 302 pages
...should we hence imagine that the law and the promise were in opposition : God forbid \ for if there had been a law given, which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law ; it was the most excellent system which could be for the purpose : but from the nature of man that... | |
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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. 
