CH.A.P'IER XII. epeaking of him.self, he does not mean t.o say that grace had made him what he was in Ter.1-ch.:Jiv.23.-ID. HoBTATOBY. (See spite of himself, bnt that grace had not l!IIllllll&?'Y of CODients, p. :rrii.) It is St. Paul's been in vain, because he himself had worked way t.o EiUJJPlemeni hie doctrinal treatises with grace. All was of grace, but he him- with detailed pracf;ical directi.ons as to the 110lf had laboured, assisted by grace working conchwt that should of necessity e08lle on with him. It will be observed how com- belief in the doctrine! propounded. So e.lso prehensive is the survey of• Christi11n duty in Eph. iv. 1, eic~ where, as here, he con- that here follows, reaching t.o all the rela- necte his exhortations with what has gone tions of life, as well as to internal disposi- befare by the initiat.ory .,,a.pa,u,;,..;; ow. Beyond tion. hie exposition of the truth for its own sake, h~ has always a further pr-..ctical aim. Saving Ver. 1-ch. xili.14,-E. Various practical faith is ever with bim a living faith, to be duties enforced. l!Lo'll"D by w; frnils. Nor, acoonling to him, Ver.1.-I beseech you therefore, brethren will these frnits follow, unless the believer (he does not co=d, as did Moses in the him.!lelf does hie pa.rt in cultivating them: Law; he heseeches; he is but a fellow- ~lse were these earnest and particale.r servant, with his brethren, of Christ; he does ex.horiatiOI111 needleu. If, on the one hand, not "lord it over God's heritage" (cf. l Pet. Le ie the great aasert.or of om salvation being v. 3), but trusts that they will of their own e.ccord respond to " the mercies of God " in tl..rough faith and all of grace, he is DO leBB Christ, whlch he has set before them), by d.iatind for the necessity of worka following, the meraiel of God (" Qui misericordia. Dei a.nd of the power of man's ~will to uee recte movetur in omnem Dei 110Zuntatem or rf:lrist grace ; cf. 1 Cor. xv. 10, where, ingrcdltur. At anima irie obnoxie. vix quid-
1 • Letter from Bobert Haldane, Eeq., to 14. J. J. Chenerlere, Pastor o.nd Professor of DivinitJ 11,t Geneva,' pp. 38, 89. on. xn, 1-21.] THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE ROMXNS.