How wondrous, for instance, is the scheme of
redemption as unfolded to us in the Epistle to the Romans! How profound
and how exalted is the spirituality of the Ephesians and Colossians!
How pure and how practical are the directions to the Corinthians! What
a counter-blast to all legality in the church do we have in Galatians!
What a marvelous unfolding of Old Testament typology in the Hebrews!
What a guidebook of unequalled excellency for ministers of all times in
the pastoral epistles!
In the Epistle to the Romans, Paul regards mankind under the two
divisions of the Gentile and the Jew, and proceeds to show that both
classes alike had failed in their efforts to attain to righteousness
and salvation.
The Gentile, it is true, had not been favored with an outward
revelation, but he had been permitted to behold the outward universe,
and to know that it had a Creator "of eternal power and divinity." He
had also had a conscience within him, and so much light as rendered him
an accountable being, with a sense of obligation to a supreme power,
and furnishing another proof of the existence of a personal God.
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