PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Romans
James Barmby [1822-1897] · 439,030 words · 478 reading sections
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destroy tho ephemeral life of e. moth, hut to restore it is beyond human skill. The dis-- ciplos were assured of eternal life, yet they died; consequently the life they received was not to be measured in ordinary scales, nor to be probed by a material dissectin"' knife. Eternal life is a different kind of life from …
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BJ'<'ab fo the b11.pti111ed Rom11.n Christ.i11.ns in these terms: "Are ye ignorant tho.t e.11 we who were baptized into Christ ,Tesus were baptized into his death? Wo were buiied then'fore with him through b:iptism into dee.th" (Revised Version). What we ha,e g0t firat to determine here is the exact meaning of being ba…
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separated through his burial in the tomb. Godet, in a note to his comment UP')n this passage, gives a beautiful illustrntion of the truth from what a Bechuana C()nvert sai,l to the missionary Casalis some years ago. The convert was a shepherd and thus expressed himself: "Very soon I shall be dead, and they will bury…
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anc1. burie.l, and crucifixion, and resurrection, and new life alon~ with Christ. Sanctinoa. tion in this way naturally issues out of justification.1 The apostle cousoquently proceeds to show that the dominion of sin is broken by the same means as the removal of our oondernnatfon, viz. by outlook to Jesus. We find o…
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EXPOSITION. rate, with an origine.l power and opportunity CHAPTER VII, of knowing it to be so. (This, be it observed. Vers. 1-6.-Here ,comes in the third is the idea running through the whole of illustration of the more.I obligation of the eh. i, in which all man.kind are convicted be.ptized. It rests on the recogni…
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'\""C'r~. 2-4.-For (this is an inetnnceofth<> of the Textus Rccoptus rests on no authority, 11pplfo11 lion of the general principle, adduced beingapparontly only I\ oon_jectureof Dez1\'H,) Bll suiting the subject in hand) the woman There are VA.l'ious ways of ex.plo.ining. (1) tha~ ~th a.n h~sbnd (IJ.ra.vlipos, impl…
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not tho law, but the lust of sin (.-a 1ra0~µcm1, such e. Jifo " when we were in tbo fleeh," ...,,, &µ.ap.-,wv, vor. 5); tho wife, the s01J,l; ~nd our P?wer or doin 6 M now, are brfofly tho new husband, Ohrist, Auguetino, who mt,mated m preparation for what foll,,w3, le the author of this view, puts it thns: ~t rloee no…
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th11t th<' oontivt in ita cssenee is b0twC'<'n plete the subject which we I\Unounoed n1 exneted oonformit'I" to 11.n extern11\ rode being that of the sixth, soventh, and eighth twhich Wl\S the oh1uaoteristic of the old chaptera, viz. " the moral reenlta to bo- ror-C"nant) and inspired 111.\egianoo to the Law of God…
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being the thought of l11w subjecting to 111n between the et.ate described and th~ thnt introduces the whole pnssage, and runs Imagined previ0118 one before law ha,} through it-the 'Y~P which connects ver. 14 began t.o operate. with what precedes denoting a continuance The view which wethns confirlcntly a,:lvr,. through…
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lMUy. ""ith regsrd to the whole question of they may not attain all at once to the Ideal the iut<>ntion of thi■ oho.pt.er, thnt ils refcr- of their regenerate condition. E'n<'<' ta the unregenerate precludes the Similarly, in St. John's Epistles the wresting of ~ome pa.rte of it to !npport kingdoms of dll.l'kneee and …
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at the end, the Law of Moses le rcferrod to commandment" brongbt ont lust aa lin, as forbidding lust. Hence the article in but further that it '[IT01Jr,lwl, it, according to both oases. But in the intervening phro.ee, the alleged tendency of human nature to ol µ.~ lM 11&µ.011, it is the principle of law long o.11 th…
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u the'" Rn>. nnd !lO to i:-ce with God. Thus, These. v. 113). There 1/,u>.,~ aeeme to donote in p.-,,1,, d<'t•s the apoetle teaoh us to regard tlte animal life or eoul animating the <To,µa for thl' insl'rutable mystery of sin, and the the purposes of mero human life, but disliu• remc•<h for it in Christ. guisbod from t…
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roferenoe to law which follows. Tho word certainly u In the English Versirm; not o-ap,c1vbr (which, rather than rrap,c1,cbs, ie the thi, body of d,,,ath, 68 if it meant thi, mr,rf11! beet-eupportecl re11cling) may be uee<l to ex- bod1f) Thanks be to God through Jema proe.• merely our present consli tution-our Christ ou…
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with Chris~ so ns t-0 bec!ome I\ '""" t1111n, i,-nore.l lf\w (in liko eanee) of my complex dl'li,el\-.d from bondRge; this ll\St expres- human nl\ture, which ncoessite.tea this I\U• sion. c-f ooun;,,. in,olving a different idea te.gonism: "fh6 lf\w, that when I would do fn.,m that of the intMrd man). It is to good" …
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the fish le for the water, the bird for the air. When he imparts spiritual renewal, it ia with a view to IL new spiritual life. In re-creating human natnrca in the likeness of his own Bon, God hne it, so to speak, in his purpose that they should serve him, and thnt in "newness of the spirit." I. CHRISTIANS HAVE A NEW…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-17.-.The position of the Law u11uler the New Testament. The apostle is here continuing his discussion of the immoral suggestion to which he alluded in the previous chapter (ver. 15), "What then? shall we sia, becanse we are not under the Law, bnt under grace?" L THE REJ.A.TIOl!i O…
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the Law of God aft.er the inward man" (ver. 22), That in itself marks him out as a truE' Christian. He takes pleasure in the Divine Word, although it reve&.ls to him the sinfulness of his own heart. He delights in the Law of God, because it shows to him his Fat.her's will. He delights in the Law of God, because it show…
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the abominable thing which God hates. lta presence in hia own heart manifestin" itself in hie beet services and in hie dealings with hie fellow-men, will be ~ sore trial ~ him, It will lead him to cry out, "0 wretched man that I am I who 1hall deliver me from this body of death?" But no one need despair of deliverance,…
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I. To L.t.w M UVBALING SIN. "For," says the apostle, "I had not known sin, except through the L&w; I had not known ooveting, except the Law had aaid, Thou ehalt not covet.'' Here we have a general principle, and a special instance. L&w, by saying, " Thou !'halt not," brings home to our conscience the knowledge that …
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'l'he will, bond-sle.ve 11s it Is, covets freedom. The subjected epirit craves to be on~ age.in in harmony with the spiritue.l Law. Is not this verified likewise by the history of me.nkind? In the e.ncient world, amid a.ll the corruptions of heathendom, there were those who approved and desired the good. It shone befo…
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kc: tJie d~.1/ .freslmea of youth abot.t it. The resttrrection-life is l\n awakening out of sleep, with the vigour of a glad new morning. The Christian sloughs off the old skin, to be attired in a vesture of beauty, and, like the winged butterfly emerging from the chrysal_is state, he enters into an enlarged sphere o…
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It to do what it would not, so that men groan under the desperate oppression. Thns the, Le.w fulfils its pu_rpoee in _the me.nifestat_ion of sin,_and _ultim'ltP,[y leads trJ th" dehv:erance of the. behever. Bm overreach_es itself, _and 1s hoist with its own petard. Feelmg the workmg of death and <lreadmg the issue, we …
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v.retebed man," eto.l Some have been l!O shocked as to call this a miserable ohapter, and_ ha...-e shifted the difficulty by pusing it on one aide. Others have adopted the nohon that he is here deecribing, not hie actual state, but the condltlon of an unregenerat.e man such as he wa.s once. Yet the expression of the pr…
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moral ·evil; by It& power we ma.y contend victoriously. The indwelling Chri!!t is the prophecy of ul~ime.te, complete victory. & m ~ we ,'hall, gait this whernar.k of cln,y, and leave behmd us all the a.venues to temptation, and the Btings and infirmities of which the body is the synonym. Clothed with e. house from hea…
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the l!(lttl, having died in Jesus to the Law, and having thus dlBSolved the unhappy' union, gets mised along wit.h Christ and is united to him 1\8 the eecond and better husbsnd. It is to a risen Saviour that the risen soul is 1111lted. Jesus is the Bride- !!room, and t.he soul the bride (cf. John iii. 29). And regardin…
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sleep on the edge of a precipice, a sleep over a mine, a mere dance of death. The sooner it ends the better. Let us, therefore, consider- . II. ~im:eotJL'e. AWAKENmG THROUGH THE_ L~w_. The ~w comes claimin~ cr,n- s1dero.t1on and belief, and the moment we receive 1t ID good faith, the sense of security is at o.n end…
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the Sn'l'ionr. And !IO we are not only put out of oonoeit with ourselves In oonviotion and convendon, but kept ont of eelf-conoeit by the law of Christian progreee. In this section, as in other portions of bis Epistles, the apostle reVld&ls this law as that of anfagoo_Uffi.; The _impart.ed Spirit proves himself a mi…
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is o. great thing gained when we have been led to delight in the spirituality and thoroughness and perfection of God's Le.w. II. TRE CONSTANT SENSE OB' B'ALLil'IG BHOBT OB' THE IDEAL. The renewed soul feels ~ho.t it somehow cal?not do what it would. ~t ;iever hita the bull's-eye. The good that it had hoped to do 1e…
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l-y,l, from it.s old unweloome thrsldom. In Blly redeem it; fur he sent him in likeneea virtue of this new law, introduoed int.o my of our "flesh of Bin." It is not BD,id in flesh bein~. I e.m now free to give my entire qf Bin; for th&.t migU imply ain in Ohrist'e &llegie.noe to the law of God. No,w,s, be it individ…
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mode in our very h11mBn flesh, when we and the.~ hen<l? we are still ln danger of Bro hBptized into hie deBth, Bnd become 8llccumbmg to it; but that if we do-unless thereupon pBri:Bkere of hie reB11rrection. This the Spirit within ue prove in prar,tice the ideB, ever present to St. Paul's mind, is ex- stro~g81'. ~we…
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\'er. 10 ('\~ntinues the thought of ver. 9; ~ the for him, having alrel\dy given him "tbo body•· (.,-cl <To,µa) meaning the Mme I\S "th0 earnest of the Spirit." And this seems to fiffih" (tr~), and "dead" ("rtp?w) meaning be what ie meant here by "shall also quioken rn-E1<f'O'µEPOP, i..e. mortified., or lifeless wit…
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J'or ye reoeived not the apirit of b1J11dage our being as yet in these m'lrlal b'lrlie3 that again unto fear; but ye reoeived the Spirit is the ceuso of our present sufferin"' · but ho of adoption, wherein we ory, Abba, :rather. o.leo was in the body,and he ale,, so "'a~flered • The Spirit itself beareth witneee wit…
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c,reature(of. ch.,iii.39; Heb.iv. lS). Where Vera. 20, 21.-l!'or the oreature (or orea- there i8 nothing to limit its meaning, it must tion, 88 before) was anbjeoted to vaniiy, not be nnderstood of the whole visible crentiou at willingly, but by reason of him who aub- any mte in the world of man. Thus iu 111i:.rk je…
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Suoh o great fln11l hope flnds expression in e~n above as to onr present ''mortal t=Jies" the verse- bemg both the organs of the Just of the "Tho.t God, which evor lives and loves, flesh ancl the hi_ndrances to the proper cleve- One God, one 1Bw1 one element, lopment of onr mward spi.ritnal Iifo And one far-off Div…
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~pt•l. the internal oonaC'iousnC'SS of the dally trootl'tl in oh. Ix. Individual predes- bunrnn 1,0nl. with in, yearnin~ aft-0r s,,mc'- tim1t.ion is in viow; nnd this not to gospel thing ns y,,t unroalizro., affords on<' of the pri'dkges ouly, but nlso cnrryiug with it tho mDl't ro,:,,nt Miden<'el! of a lifo to oonw …
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context shows .,,.,!.,.,.a to he.vo especie.l refe:r- e~O<!, ~rom the preceding oontei:t, to refer, onco to oxtorne.l oircumetonces of t:rle.J, and pnma~ly e.t leai,t, to participation in Christ', not e.t e.11 to men's own sine. Ce.lv:ln, com- euffenngR ( of. Heh. ii. 10). Coming to ve:r. me~ting on it, quotes St. Augu…
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not for the elN:'t only. but for all m1mkind; other oreature, ■hall be able to ■eparate u1 <If. on c-h. v. IS). how ahall he not with from the love of God, whioh ii in Christ him al~o freely give 118 ( i.e. grant us of his J'esu1 our Lord. In theee two oonoluding fr-ee grac-e) all things! (w..£1-ra,oorresponding ver…
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Insietou on o.ll a.Jong), tho.t we o.re bonnd, o.e even all these prew,nt trialH, fa~ frr,m Obrietlo.ns, in our present lives, to live, not ha.rming ne, work together f,,r gr,rA to lh~m ufter the flesh, but after the Spirit. th11t love God, being called acc•,r<ling tr, his Ver. 13.-lf we do not, then (notwith- purpo…
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HOMILETICS. T'er. L-" Xo rondemnation!' In reading this chapter, it cannot but be felt that there wa.s, in the mind of the apostle., a very vivid sense of the contra.et between the character, the position, a.nd the prospects of the true Christian, and those of unbelievers, whether Jews or Gentilea. This contrast is k…
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.APPLIOATION, 1. Let the Christian rest in no inferior view of his position• f0r this assure.nee of liberty is one which every believer in the Lord Jesus is invited and ie warranted to take to himself, 2. Let those who are under condemnation by reason 0( ein remember tho.t there is one way of escape and acquittal, and …
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(I'l.)m I&. So is it in the spiritual roalm. The Holy Ghost is spoken of ae the Sourco sod Im]?Srter of th~ new and holy life; because he himself possosses, in infinite fu)ncss, t.bnt winch we receive according to measure. ,ve recognize the presence of tbe Spirit of God in all God's works and methods, in what nre calle…
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wo owe so much to human spirits, and yet owe nothing to him wbr, is "the Father of the spirits of 11!1 flesh "-in whom is all moral exce ilence, and whose benevolence is equal to hie holiness? Do we behold his handywork in the vuulted heavens and tho verdap.t ear~h; ~nd shall we not ~ecognize hi~ migh:y working in t…
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e,idenre of life. It is by the Spirit of life thl\t this result is to bo effected-by tho Spirit <1f life working in the bee.rt, and changing the character into the likeness of t.he Lord, and I\Ssisting to oonquer sin, to resist Sa.tan, to a.cquire a 'character cougenio.1 and akin to Christ's. This is the Holy Spirit…
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holinoss manifests hie presence and his powel', by calling int0 existence the fruits c,f the Spirit, whoso quality and abundance leave no room for doubting the Divinity of the agency to whioh they owe their existence. Ver. 17.-The twofold fellowship. A person may be the heir to a title and to a great estate, and yet, …
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common t-0 men as men, but which have to Christians a signlfioation different from thRt which they hRve to others. All men have to endure, more or less, weakness e.nd sufforing of bc>dy, depression of mind, bereRvements, changes in outward circumstances, and other afflictions providentially appointed or permitted. B…
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in worldly alfoirs the useful virtue of prudence emerges, and men deny themselves now in order to make provision for the coming y,iars, 'The same principle is applicable in religion, Those who believe themselves destined to a future and immortal existence are capable of looking forward to the life to come, and of allow…
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1,. Tms 18 A 0ALCULATION WIIT0H HAS SUSTAINED TITE FAITH AND 0OURAGl!I OF AffLTITC'IlES OF BELmVERs IN CHRIST IN EVERY AGE, 'l'his ho.a been the CRSO n,,, 0nly with tht1 ~e who have been called upon to witness to their Saviour by publi~ lsJx,un;_ aud by public sufferings, with those who have contended upon the high …
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on the part of Ohrist's people whether or not the promises of God will be fulfilled. they have already been fulfilled in such measure as to justify our hope concemfog th; future. Ours is a hope which "maketh not ashamed," which will not disappoint those who cleave to it. III. THE FRUITS OF THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE. 1. Ori…
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Ver. 82.-The 0,ft which implies all gifts. One very desirable habit of Ohrietian experience is the habit of connecting all spiritual privileges and all providential favours with the supreme Gift which God bas conferred npon us in the bestowal of his own Son. ' It is this habit which the apostle encourages by the appeal…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vera. 1-11.-The J°udgme:nt-day, and hO'ID to prepare for it. The apostle apeaks much in the-language of the Law. He himself was not only acquainted with the useful handicraft of tent-making or sail-ma.king, but he was also trained in the profession of the Lo.w-brought up at the feet'.of Ga…
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I. TnE rREP.rnATION OF THE CIIRISTIAN, The apostle speaks qf the Christian GIi being 1•reparni for a _i,ul1Jme11t-day. " There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." That day needs a preparation, "For we must a.ll appear before the judgment-...~t of Christ, that every one may receive the…
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the world that he gave his own Son for our salvation. It is not the fault of the Sr,a. Christ so.ye, "I am come that ye might have life." It is not the fault of the Spirit, who is consta.ntly striving with us. If Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, surely it is clear that there is no salvation in any othe…
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He first modelled his figure in clay, and then took the rou~h, eha):!8less m&ea of marble, in which no one could see any traces of the future st.'\tuo s loveliness or eymmotry of form. But the sculptor's love for his work, the skill of his hand, the pa.ti41noe and penieve!'ILiloe of his mind, the hammer and ohisel w…
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together for good to them that love God." Some might be disposed to doubt such a 11tatement with regard to the experience even of the Christian. Yet many others besides Paul have borne similar testimony. David said, " I have been young, and nnw t1m old ; yet never have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed be.,.…
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tAat makes a1J life 'happy and blessed. Love to God sweetens every bitter cup, and light.en& every heary burden. For if we love him, we must know him, we must trust him. That is the threefold cord that binds the Christian unto God, and that keeps him safr• in all the changes and cil'('um~t.Rnces of life. In order to lo…
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friends. Bo Paul found it in his experience. Bo did many a cbfld of G,xl. Martin Luther was sent to prison in the Wartburg, apparently a hea.vy blow t,} himself and hie friends, and the cause of the Reformation. But the love ofChrist wa.~ strr,nc,er than the castle walls. They could not keep Christ out. Luther was mor…
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demn11tfon ofsin. And it is set forth, in regard to Chrl~t nnd in re1mrd:to.ourselves, neg11tively and positively. 1. Negatively, by contrast with the impote~ce of mere Law: "\',hat the Law could not do." The Law of God, whether inwardly in coll9'lience, or outwardly as through Moses, sufficiently condemns sin theor…
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"the mind of the flesh i~ cleath;" thi~ is as 1111r~ly the result of such 11, perverse activity of our nature as th,)Ugh 1t were consc10usly designed. and sought after. What is death, to such a one as me.n? The complete separation of the soul from God I And bow is such death wrought by the "miml of the flesh"? By the r…
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human, but a sweetly moulding and formative influence towards a.11 that is truly, di'l""inely hu1;11an, all tha.t is noble a.n,l pure and good, A Liberator from bondage.£-& bonda.ge which all feel--and One who lifts us from the murky mists of self e.nd sin into a tranquil, sunny air. The true sign of true conversion…
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Is upon UA to the IRet: we die I Of what validity, then, ia the justification through Ohrist? 1md of whBt reality the renewal by the Spirit? The objection is answered in these verses, in which a.re set forth-the persistence of death, the triumph of life. I. THE PEBBIBTEN0E OF DEATH. It i~, _indeed, true Jbat, in spi…
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