 | Andrew Fuller - Sandemanianism - 1812 - 226 pages
...that they are ?) But still the one is opposed to free justification, the » John v. 42, 43, other not. To him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt; and faith and repentance corresponding exactly with the manifestation of divine grace, as freely justifying... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1812 - 630 pages
...obtain his acceptance with God unto eternal life ? See Rom. iv. 4. ' To him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt : But to him that worketh not, but believcth on him that justifieth the ungodly, that is, the man who has no works of righteousnesss answerable... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...what saith the scripture ? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 4 Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. PARAPHRASE. 1 V\ HAT then shall we say of Abraham our father, according to the flesh1, what has he... | |
 | Missions - 1832 - 644 pages
...Bible can fall into such gross mistakes. Let Paul's words conclude this part of the subject : " Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of...debt ; but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousmess. Eren as David also describeth... | |
 | 1819 - 492 pages
...it written, " He that believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God ;" or to this other, " Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of...of debt; but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted to him for righteousness." But these passages,... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - Atonement - 1814 - 390 pages
...con. ply with an exhortation of the prophet Isaiah, "cease to do evil; learn to do well." This saying, --To him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but ot debt," means the working of the unregenerate. For if God should annex a reward to such works, it... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Presbyterian Church - 1815 - 340 pages
...Romans : " Therefore it is by faith, that it m ba -b^- grace." " Tp him that worketh. is the i. 'ward not reckoned of grace, but of debt ; but to him that worketh not, but believeth in him that juftifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted to him fot righteoufnefs." , Faith indeed... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 524 pages
...therefore, that he was not justified by works. Then he advances another argument from two opposites. " To him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt." (?) But righteousness is attributed to faith through grace. Therefore it is not from the merit of works. Adieu,... | |
 | William Butcher (rector of Ropsley.) - 1816 - 272 pages
...the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." Let us consider them with attention. 1. " Now, to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt." If any man refuse salvation by grace, and insist upon it, owing to his own meritorious performances,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...righteousness be ours ; but of his own providing, that that the righteousness may be his. *• Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt," Rom. iv. 2, 3, 4. If I work for justifying righteousness, and that way get righteousness, my justification... | |
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Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 
