 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...Danger of neglecting trembling. When the Jews inquired of ouf Lord, ffr/iat shall we efo, that we might work the works of God? He answered, This is the work of God, that ye believe in Him whom he hath sent. St. John inculcates the same truth, M'hen he says, This is the... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...and cannot be distinguished from it.* When the Jews asked Jesus, " What shall we do, that we might work the works of God ?" he answered, " This is the work of God, that ye believe on him w/iem he hath sent."\ The plain meaning of the question put by the Jews is this :... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...part only of mankind ?' 1 ' When some of the Jews asked Jesus, " What shall, we do, " that we might work the works of God ?" ' he answered, " This " is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." ' If God had decreed that the Jews should not believe, it could... | |
 | George Pretyman - Calvinism - 1811 - 614 pages
...justified by the law of Moses ( t). " When some of the Jews asked Jesus, " What shall we do, that we might work the works of God ? " he answered, " This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent (u). " If God had decreed that the Jews should not believe, it... | |
 | Missions - 1809 - 618 pages
...labouring he afterwards explains, ' of believiag on him.' Hence, in answer to their question, ' What shall we do that we may work the works of God ?' — he says, " This is the work of God, — That ye believe on him whom he halhseat ;'and which he continues... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1818 - 490 pages
...which He requires us to do. When the Jews asked our Saviour, " What they should do that they might work the works of God ?" He answered, " This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him, whom He hath sent." — And St. John expressly says, " This is his commandment,... | |
 | Owen Felltham - Christian life - 1820 - 552 pages
...both are meant. And, therefore, when at one time, the people came to our Saviour and asked him, what shall we do, that we may work the works of God ? he...be even the whole work of the evangelical law. And whea the young man, in the Gospel, asked him at another time, what he should do to inherit eternal... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1824 - 896 pages
...have admitted. VOL. vj n. c ' When some of the Jews asked Jesus, " What ' shall we do, that we might work the works of ' God ? " he answered, " This is the work of God, ' that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." If ' God had decreed that the Jews should not be' lieve, it could... | |
 | Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1824 - 588 pages
...works is faith in Christ : as he himself saith John vi. 29. For when the Jews asked him saying, " What shall we do that we may work the works of God," he answered, " This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." But we, when we hear this or preach of it, pass over it in a... | |
 | 1824 - 890 pages
...hope which he has set before us in his Gospel. When some of our Lord's hearers inquired of him, " What shall we do, that we may work the works of God ? " he replied, " This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." And indeed, to believe... | |
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This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent; " declaring thereby faith to be even the whole work of the evangelical law. 
