Lectures on the Romans (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.1863 Excerpt: ... which seem to contradict ours; and thus, through the feebleness and blindness of our judgment, we are estranged from our brethren, and count them as enemies. More light, more humble searching of the Scriptures, might show us that we may be right without their being wrong, and so might our charity be advanced in proportion as the range of our knowledge was widened. Let me then beg of you to study God's Word more soberly, more thoroughly, more systematically. Take it book by book, obliterate for the nonce this artitical division of chapters and verses, --a division convenient for reference, but prejudicial to comprehension--determine to master the portion you are engaged with, penetrate to its marrow and kernel, make out its scope and purpose, drink earnestly into its spirit, explore its intricacies and scrutinize its every beauty, and thus, beholding as in a glass the full-faced glory of the Lord, you shall be changed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of God. To this end, and as an exercise of this order, I ask you to begin with me this day a careful and consecative study of the Epistle to the Romans. This epistle is the longest and the most elaborate in the New Testament. It contains the fullest development of christian doctrine to be found in the Bible, the most complete code of practical precepts for christian use: together with the most abundant references to the Gentile world, and the application of the Gospel to its necessities and destiny. We find in it the clearest delineations of religious experience among men, from the crudest fears of the ignorant yet self-condemned savage up to the purest and highest raptures of the man whose heart is right with God through faith in Jesus Christ. It, therefore, speaks to every nation; i..