![]() ![]() The same Lord of all is rich - So that his blessings are never to be exhausted, nor is he ever constrained to hold his hand. Confession here implies the whole of outward, as believing does the root of all inward, religion. If thou confess with thy mouth - Even in time of persecution, when such a confession may send thee to the lions.įor with the heart - Not the understanding only.Man believeth to righteousness - So as to obtain justification.And with the mouth confession is made - So as to obtain final salvation. Which we preach - The sum of which is, If thy heart believe in Christ, and thy life confess him, thou shalt be saved. This is eminently true of the word of faith - The gospel. The word is nigh thee - Within thy reach easy to be understood, remembered, practised. ![]() Even these words, so remarkably applicable to the subject before us. ![]() Speaketh a very different language, and may be considered as expressing itself thus: (to accommodate to our present subject the words which Moses spake, touching the plainness of his law:) Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven, as if it were to bring Christ down: or, Who shall descend into the grave, as if it were to bring him again from the dead - Do not imagine that these things are to be done now, in order to procure thy pardon and salvation. >Lev 18:5 10:6īut the righteousness which is by faith - The method of becoming righteous by believing. But this way of justification is impossible to any who have ever transgressed any one law in any point. įor Moses describeth the only righteousness which is attainable by the law, when he saith, The man who doeth these things shall live by them - that is, he that perfectly keeps all these precepts in every point, he alone may claim life and salvation by them. To every one - Whether Jew or gentile, treated of, Romans 10:11, &c.That believeth - Treated of, Romans 10:5. And he alone gives that pardon and life which the law shows the want of, but cannot give. Have not submittedto the righteousness of God - The way of justification which he hath fixed.įor Christ is the end of the law - The scope and aim of it.It is the very design of the law, to bring men to believe in Christ for justification and salvation. And seeking to establish their own righteousness - Their own method of acceptance with God. They have a zeal, but not according to knowledge - They had zeal without knowledge we have knowledge without zeal.įor they being ignorant of the righteousness of God - Of the method God has established for the justification of asinner. My prayer to God is, that they may be saved - He would not have prayed for this, had they been absolutely reprobated. ![]()
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