for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin.

" I have made thee a father of many nations," then existing in the sight of God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls forth things that are not, as if they were:

for by its being dead, we are set free from sin.

being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

but now being set free from sin, and actually in the service of God, the present advantage you reap is holiness, and the future everlasting life.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet."

for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

neither are they who are the race of Abraham, all children: but 'tis said, "in Isaac shall thy posterity be called."

it was said to her, "the elder shall serve the younger."

for 'tis said in scripture to Pharaoh, "even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth."

and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called, the children of the living God."

and as Esaias said before, "except the God of heaven had left us a remnant, we had been as Sodoma, and brought to the state of Gomorrha."

but what said the oracle to him? "I have reserved to my self seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

why then dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou think contemptibly of thy brother? since we shall all of us be brought before the judgment-seat of Christ.

they have thought fit, I say, and they owed them as much. for if the Gentiles have participated of their spirituals, they are bound on their side to minister to them in their temporals.