| Abraham Booth - Election (Theology) - 1793 - 334 pages
...worthinefs, therefore, cannot be conne&ed in the . fame act, and for the fame end. The one muft neceffarily give place to the other, according to that remarkable text ; If by grace, then it is no more of works ; otherwife grace is no more grace. 'But if it be of works, then it is no more grace i otherivife work... | |
| Herman Witsius - Antinomianism - 1807 - 360 pages
...grace and works. For as the same Apostle argues concerning election, so may we respecting salvation. " If by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace," Rom zi. 6. 1 can with great pleasure, refer the learned reader to Leydekker's Dissertation on Gal.... | |
| Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...salvation. In election. Rom. xi. 5. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Ver. 6. And if by grace, then it is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. CXXIV. Calling is of grace. Gal. i. 15. God who separated me from my mother's womb, called me by his... | |
| Joseph Milner - Church history - 1809 - 446 pages
...no antecedent merit: And in this way the apostle to the Romans appears to argue, when he says :" And if by grace then it is no more of works. Otherwise grace is no more grace. Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt." All this is perfectly intelligible... | |
| Thomas Scott - Apologetics - 1809 - 388 pages
...Because the law ' worketh wrath : — therefore it is by faith, what it might ' be by grace.' ' And if by grace, then it is no more of ' works ; otherwise grace is no more grace.' (Rom iv. 1 4 — 16. xi. 6.) — For this reason all they whom God justifieth are considered as ungodly.... | |
| Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...place, fo him that worketh is the reward, not of grace, bnl of deb tj an d again , if it be by grace, , it is no more of works ; otherwise grace is no more grace f . The very notion of grace necessarily £ Roin. iii. 20, 28. Gal. ii. 16. f Rom. iv.4. ii/Q, the... | |
| Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...merit! " To him " that worketh is the reward not reckoned, of grace, " but of debt." " If by grace, it is no more of " works, otherwise grace is no more grace." He maintained that in this life every one is left to his own will : that is, given up to " his own... | |
| Robert ROBINSON (Baptist Minister.) - 1812 - 366 pages
...regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Therefore St. Paul calls it election of grace, and argues, if by grace then it is no more of works : otherwise grace is no more grace. — If it be asked, whether this decree does not weaken the interests of morality ? The scripture answers... | |
| George Lawson - Conversion - 1812 - 256 pages
...that grace which must save them ; or rather, that grace would be no grace, " for if it be of grace, it is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace." Grace is thespriag of our salvation, God's thoughts to us from eternity were thoughts of peace. Why... | |
| Wills - 1813 - 266 pages
...but that the remnant of them who embraced the gospel, were " according to the election of grace ; and if by grace, then it is no more of works ; otherwise, grace is no more grace." The privileges and performances of the Mosaic law, could not give them a ; title to the blessings promised... | |
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