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Analytical exposition of the Epistle of Paul ... to the Romans
Analytical exposition of the Epistle of Paul to the Romans Author:John Brown 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: Statement 4. The Divine Method of Justification is " now manifested to all" The fourth statement of the apostle is, that the Divine method of justification is... more » "now manifested to all." 1 — The Divine method of justification, originating in the eternal purpose of mercy, came into operation as soon as it was required, immediately after the fall of man ; and its exercise was, from its nature and object, accompanied with a partial revelation. That revelation became more extensive and distinct as ages moved on. The testimonies of the law are more obscure than the testimonies of the prophets. The revelation was confined to a comparatively small part of mankind — the original revelation to Adam and Noah being soon lost, or so corrupted as to become equivalent to no revelation — and, after the call of Abraham, the revelations being in a great measure limited to his descendants in the line of Isaac and Jacob. But "now," — now that the Messiah is come in the person of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God — the Divine method of justification is manifested to all. The method is " manifested," made evident, by the great events having taken place on which the Divine method of justification is founded. Not in a figure, but in reality has been offered up the great sacrifice of expiation, on which all human justification rests ; and the whole of the fects in reference to this event and its design, and the manner in which it is to accomplish this design, have been made the subject of a plain revelation, which may be translated into all languages, and carried into all nations ; and those into whose hands it is come are charged, not only to keep it carefully and to transmit it to their children pure and entire, as the Jews were, with regard " to the law and the prophets," but to use every suitabl...« less