unto eternal life" is the same with the "justification of life" in v. 18; both expressions mean ' that justification which is connected with eter- nal life.' It will be remarked that these words answer to the death spoken of in the preceding clause. As death is the consequence and attendant of sin, so the justification of life is the consequence and at- tendant of the grace of the gospel.
By Jesus Christ our Lord. To him, and him alone, do we owe it that the reign of sin and death has not produced universal and perpetual desolation. He has brought deliverance from both, and introduction into eternal life.
'Grace much wore abounds than sin,' 1. Because we have reason to believe, taking into view those who die in infancy, and the probable fu- ture state of the church, that the number of the saved will greatly exceed that of the lost. 2. Because Christ does far more than merely repair the evils of sin. He not only delivers us from its power and penalty, but exalts our natures and persons to a state to which we have no reason to suppose they would otherwise ever have attained. 3. Through the redeemed church is to be manifested, in ages to come, to principalities and powers, the manifold wisdom of God. The results of redemption no tongue can tell, no heart conceive.