Such legalist criticism, if seriously meant, was hardly likely to discredit Tindal's book.
The legalist comes next, even him that hath no life but what he makes out of his duties.
Our judgement respecting the conflict between Peter and Paul at Antioch in particular will determine our whole conception of the legalist controversy, and consequently of the course of Church history during the first two centuries.
Churches of Macedonia were free from thelegalist contention, but that it did not at this period occupy the Apostle's mind.
In short, the Legalist tries to make God believe in him: Abraham and Paul are content to believe in God.
Their legalist teachers will not raise a finger to lighten the yoke (Luke xi.
But without this radical exposure of the legalist position it was impossible for him adequately to vindicate his gospel and defend his Gentile children in the faith.
This shocking inconsistency, notorious in contemporary Judaism, was to be observed in the conduct of the legalist zealots in Galatia.
The Legalist gets his religion at second-hand, mixed with undivine elements.
Launched against the legalist conspiracy, and followed up by the arguments of this and the Roman Epistle, it saved the Church from being overpowered by reactionary Judaism.
Neither legalist nor law-breaker understands the meaning of faith in Christ.
The attempt of the legalist party was in effect to force Christianity into the grooves of Mosaism, to reduce the world-wide Church of the Spirit to a sect of moribund Judaism.
The Apostle would fain lift his readers above the level of this legalist contention.
The legalist practically takes the same view of human nature as the sensualist.
To be Senior Legalist and to stroke the first boat on the river in the same term was an unusual combination: in the next Charles Dilke added to it the Presidency of the Union.
The legalist teaches that we must give up sin before we can get righteousness.
The legalist teaches that we must surrender earth in order to get heaven.
In the eyes of the strictlegalist there is no such thing as an inward state of human worth.
For it is to the letter of the Law, rather than to the spirit, that the strict legalist is bound to conform.
Goodness, as the legalist conceives it, is measurable in terms of correctness of outward conduct, and of that only.
Legalist thinking remained an important undercurrent for many centuries to come, but application of the equalitarian principle was from now on never seriously considered.
This process had gone furthest in Ch'in and was sponsored by the representatives of the Legalist School, which was best adapted to the new economic and social situation.
The basic principles of his administration had been laid down long before his time by the philosophers of the Legalist school, and were given effect by his Chancellor Li Ssŭ.
He objects to the term covenant: a covenant is a legal contract and could hardly have been chosen for the frame of his ideal by so pronounced an anti-legalist as Jeremiah.
One is of those who regard him as a legalist and throughout his career the strenuous advocate of the Book and the system it enforced.
I read the passage aright, he has been thinking not of the legalist only, who opposed and denounced his doctrine of grace and faith, but of the school or schools which rather would applaud it--and then distort it.
But his business here is to meet the legalist on the legalist's own ground.
The basic principles of his administration had been laid down long before his time by the philosophers of the Legalist school, and were given effect by his Chancellor Li Ss[)u].
