Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

THIS Epistle to the Romans is an Epitome or Body of Divinity, containing Faith and Love in Christ Jesus; from which Rome degenerating hath separated from her self and the Scriptures of Truth, the only grand Charter of all Christianity.

THIS Epistle to the Romans is an Epitomy or Body of Divinity, containing Faith and Love in Christ Jesus; from which Rome degenerating hath separated from her self and the Scriptures of Truth, the only grand Charter of all Christianity.

In the beginning of the Epistle the Apostle discourseth about Original Sin, […] having infected the whole Nature of Man with its guilt and filth, […] Jews and Gentiles all become abominable, fallen short of the glory and image of God, Chap. 3.23. For by one Man Sin entered upon all, Chap. 5.12. and Death by Sin. Whence he inferreth there is no possibility of our Justification by the Works either of the Ceremonial or Moral Law; so that he concludeth a necessity of our being Justified by Faith without the Works of the Law, Chap. 3.28. Through the Redemption of Jesus Christ. But though we are justified freely by his Grace, yet we are not to live freely and licentiously in Sin, because Grace abounds, God forbid, Chap. 6.1. for holiness is inseparably entailed on our most holy Faith, Jude 20. Then he proceedeth to show the Privileges of the adopted Children of God, that there is no condemnation due to them, Chap. 8.1. For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, hath made them free from the Law of Sin and Death; and that they are heirs of God, vers. 17. which is more than all the World. Till he arriveth at the Head-spring of all Grace, and that is Eternal Election, Chap. 9. without any foresight of Faith or Works. But as in time he chose first the Jews, rejecting them he chose the Gentiles, without any view of Merit or Eligibility in either of them before others; for the Jews were the smallest and meanest ⟨p. 242⟩of all Nations, Deut. 7.7