A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...the gift of tongues, by being circumcised and keep-. ing the law, or by believing the gospel, the word 3 of faith which we preach? Are ye so without understanding? Having begun to live acceptably to God under the spiritual dispensation of the gospel, do ye now look for perfection to 4 the carnal ordinances of the law? Have ye suffered so many things for Christ's sake and the gospel's in vain? if it be yet in vain, which I earnestly hope it may not, but that you will 5 return to the truth. Let me therefore once again ask you who it was that communicated to you spiritual gifts and wrought miracles among you? Was it I Paul, or your new teachers? and did I do it in virtue of the law, or by the power of the gospel? Yourselves know that it was in confirmation of the gospel. 6 Let me refer you to the example of Abraham. Even he, long before he was circumcised, believed God, and his faith was reckoned to him 7 for righteousness. From whence it is plain that those who walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had, being yet uncircumcised (Rom. iv. 11), are the true children of 8 Abraham, and shall inherit his blessing. And the Holy Ghost, by whose inspiration the Scripture was written, foreseeing that God would in due time justify the heathen through faith, ture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached hefore the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all 9 nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to 11 do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, ...