Dean Colet's Letters on the Mosaic Account of the Creation Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1876 Excerpt: ... in the body only, and not in spirit. Hence he testifies that, if at any time Gentiles lived according to the law, --not that they did really live agreeably to the law; but let us put the case that it was so with some Gentile or other, that we may see the law's power, and speak as if the fact had really been so.--We may say then, that, if at any time Gentiles lived by the rule of the law, they then had the law, in their life; since the law only exists for the purpose of man's life. And in like manner the Jews, if they did not live according to the law, are to bo reckoned as without the law.--We must judge of all things, in every case, by the standard of spirit and life. The additional words according to my gospel by Jesus Christ,1 are equivalent to as I preach, taught by Jesus Christ. For it is the gospel message, that a man's praise with God, through Jesus Christ, depends only on his spirit, and life, and righteous dealing. w. n, sqq. Juf if thou art called a Jew, and restest upon the law.--In this passage we are taught that, althought he Jews had the law given them, yet, if they observed it not, they were all as Gentiles, and their law profited them nothing. If thou, over-proud Jew, he says, art called a Jew--hast the name and not the reality--and restest upon the law, as though in safety through having it, and makest thy boast in God on account of the law given by Him, and knowest his mill, as thou thyself sayest, being taught by the law, and approvest the things that are more excellent--commendest what is good: being instructed out of the law; and art confident--assertest this as thy prerogative--that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes (such were their names for the.