...the whole world was guilty in ' the sight of God, and must otherwise have perished everlast* ingly. " Where is boasting then ? It is excluded. By what "law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith." « ness of God in Christ," can be mentioned, properly, except " faith, and that not of ourselves, it...

...will remember those words of St. Paul, foreseeing and answering this very objection, Rom. iii. 27, " Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what Law? Of Works. Nay, but by the Law of Faith. If a man were justified by his works, he would have whereof to glory." But there is no glorying for...

...this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law ; of works ? Nay, but by the law of faith." But what doth Paul mean by the law of faith ? Does he mean the gospel, which is sometimes called faith,...

...when the whole world was guilty in the sight of God, and must otherwise have perished everlastingly. "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law ? Of works ? Nay, but by the law of Faith." Boasting cannot be excluded by the law of works, that is, by the Law of Moses, because in that dispensation...

...distinguishes it from the first covenant, and sets it in opposition to it, which he calls the lam of works. " Where is boasting then? — It is excluded. By what law ? of works ? Nay, by the law of faith."* The gospel, or covenant of grace, is the law of faith. It is a revelation and...

...wonderful experience, though they are without hope, and without that experience that worketh hope. " Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of •works? Nay," it is never excluded by legal terrors, Rom. iii. 27. 4. Such a sinner holds fast free-will and selfrighteousness...

...God); and if the sinner is justified by free grace, through the redemption and mediation of another ; " where is boasting then ? it is excluded : by what law, of works ? nayi" for the workmonger is always the proudest man, 1 Tim. vi. 4; the most judicially blind, John...

...this time, his righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then ? It is excluded. By what law?...faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law." If we consider the whole of this passage, and the connection...

...for so it is excluded, with all other works, from the causing of our salvation, Rom. iii. 27, 28. ' Where is boasting then ? it is excluded. By what law...faith. Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.' But it saves us,as an instrument, apprehending Christ and his...

...faith, according to the express language of Saint Paul, is to remove from us all occasion of boasting. " Where is boasting then ? It is excluded. By what law...works ? Nay, but by the law of faith." "Therefore," he observes in another place, " it is of faith that it might be by grace," that is, that it might b'e...