CONTENTS.

Paul had not^ finished his exhibition of the plan of salvation. He had shown that we are justified gratuitously, that is, by faith in Jesus Christ, without the works of the law. He had proved that, so far from this free- dom from the law leading to the indulgence of sin, it is necessary to our sanctification, because the law is as inadequate to the production of holi- ness in the sinner, as it is to secure pardon or acceptance with God. That such is the insufficiency of the law, he proved by exhibiting its ope- ration both on the renewed and unrenewed mind. Having accomplished all this, he leaves, in the chapter before us, the field of logical argument, and enters on the new and. more elevated sphere of joyous exultation.