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A Practical Exposition of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans
A Practical Exposition of St Paul's Epistle to the Romans Author:Robert Anderson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION III. Chapter i. 18—32. GOD'S WRATH AGAINST ALL MANNER OF SIN; AND AN AWFUL DESCRIPTION OF THE GENTILE WORLD. St. Paul, in speaking of the gospel ... more »of Christ, says, in the seventeenth verse, that " therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." But in vain does t gospel exhort men to seek righteousness and salvation in Christ alone, as apprehended by faith, unless all men shall be previously convicted as guilty of unrighteousness. i And accordingly, this the apostle now begins to prove, concluding his argument at the twentieth verse of the third chapter. Attend, then, in this part of the epistle, to the manner in which he establishes this mournful but most important truth, viz. that " all have sinned; - and you will be fully prepared to join in the conclusion which he draws; viz. that " by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in God's sight." 3 The portion which I have now selected for our meditation is the remainder of the first chapter, beginning at the eighteenth verse; and I pray that, as we dwell on the awful representation which is here given to us of the state of Beza in Inc. " Or, Ch. iii. 23. " Ch. iii. 20. the Gentile world, we may be led to adopt the language of the prophet Jeremiah, and to say, " O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." 4 St. Paul, having already described the gospel of Christ as being the ': power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth," proceeds to shew that there is not, and 'cannot be, any other method of justification or acceptance with God but by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in u...« less