...followed after the law of righteousness, had not attained to the law of righteousness, because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling stone;" he takes care to anne* to this declaration, these conciliating...

...express,t " Israel hath not attained to the law of righteousness : Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone, as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling-stone,...

...law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it, not by" faith, but as it were by the works of the law," &c. And in the 3d VITSP of this chapter, " For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going...

...of righteousness, hath not at" tained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Be" cause they sought it not by faith, but as it were by " the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stum" bling-stone."J Was any true believer ever excluded from justification,...

...law of righteousness, bath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law : for they stumbled at the stumbling stone ; as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone,...

...by faith, St. Paul observes, the Jews " attained not the law of righteousness, because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Law:" " they stumbled at that stumbling-stone and rock of offence," which lay in Sion ; they went about "...

...is, therefore, no need to struggle for self-improvement first, for that is to seek the Holy Spirit "not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law" (Rom. 9:32). Nor is there any need to wait for Him, as some have thought — no need to wait, that...

...from, sin. Neither had I the witness of the Spirit with my spirit, and indeed could not; for I "sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." 11. In my return to England, January 1738, being in imminent danger of death, and very uneasy on that...

...freed from sin." He lacked the witness of the Spirit and knew not how to obtain it. "For I 'sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.'"51 Belief was something Bohler urged on Wesley as an alternative to the BuSkampf. In Wesley's...

...law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone. As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone...