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Lectures, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans
Lectures Explanatory and Practical on the Epistle of St Paul to the Romans Author:John Fry General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1816 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: LECTURE VI.. CHAPTER THE THIRD. -- FROM THE FIFTH VERSE TO THE TWENTIETH. The Apostle is still reasoning with the Jewish op- poser of the Gospel: " All were not Israel which were of Israel." All were not the objects of the distinguishing grace of God, who were taken into the bond of the outward covenant. But in his dealings with these nominal Jews, " uncircumcised in heart," the faithfulness of God would, notwithstanding, be found unimpeachable; though it is supposed that the wisdom of man would see cause for objection. " Their unrighteousness would commend" -- fully clear and illustrate " the righteousness of God." The conduct of the unregenerate, while numbered with the people of God, in rejecting the offers of mercy, and abusing the privilege they enjoyed, would fully vindicate the justice of God; and would show, in the clearest point of view, the necessity of the righteousness of God by faith. Would the opposer insinuate, that, if this were the design of God, in including the unregenerate Jews within the bonds of his covenant, he could not righteously punish them for the result, -- the only result which his foreknowledge could have contemplated from the measure? On this ground the Apostle meets his opponent; which, accordingly, is the first subject which will claim our attention. We shall then follow the Apostle where he substantiates, from the word of God, that charge of guilt which he had before brought against the Jews. This will lead us to the general inference and conclusionwhich St. Paul draws from the foregoing reasoning -- that both Jews and Gentiles are in a state of guilt, exposed to ...« less