 | Robert Barclay - 1803 - 176 pages
...Abraham Abraham our father juftified by works, when he had offered Ifaac his fon upon the altar? Seeft thou how faith wrought with his works ? and by works was faith made perfeft; and the fcripture was fulfilled, which faith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to... | |
 | William Giles - Christian life - 1804 - 280 pages
...importance of this truth that induced the apostle, James to ask, when writing to the Jewish converts, Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar ? He knew there was a connexion between the faith of which he then spoke and moral duties : that it... | |
 | Bible - 1804 - 300 pages
...their believing, without thefe works, which are the neceflary fruits and evidences of true belief. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead ? Was not Abraham our father juJlificd by workj, when he had offered. Ifaac his fan upon the altar ? See/I thou how faith wrought... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1804 - 828 pages
...as there is, in the bare aflent of any man to the truth of the fame, or any other propofition. " But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead ?" That is, Do you need any further evidence, that fuch a faith as the devils have, can avail yon nothing,... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...Thou belie vest that there is one God; thou doest well. The devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man ! that faith without works is dead ? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 pages
...Jefus Chrift. e Jam. a. 17, 2», :6. Evtn fo faith, if it hath not works is dead being alone ;—-Seeft thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect ?- -For ai the body without the fpirit is dead, fo faith without works is dead alfo. Gal. 5. 6. For... | |
 | John Reed - Baptism - 1806 - 374 pages
...in that hard and difficult cafe of offering up Ijaac, his only fen,. upon the altar. Thus, you "fee, how faith,. " wrought with his works and by works, was faith. *; made perfett" He became, eminently, the lather of them •who believe. Believers, of every nation, are to... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...what God has commanded^ " Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness — But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works...with his works, and by works was faith made perfect." 2. It shall be well ivhh the righteous in this world. Outward circumstances may be unpromising ; but... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 624 pages
...Thou believest that there is one " God ; thou dost well : the devils also believe, and " tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith " without works is dead ? Was not Abraham our fa" ther justified by works, when he had offered Isaac " his son upon the altar ? Seest thou how faith... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...scripture style, is said to be made perfect, or to bo finished. So the Apostle James says, James ii. 22. " Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect, or finished ?" (as the word in the original properly signifies.) So the love of God is said to be made... | |
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Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar ? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect... 
