OF

THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS:

WITH

REMARKS

ON THE

COMMENTARIES OF DR MACKNIGHT, PROFESSOR
MOSES STUART, AND PROFESSOR THOLUCK.

BY

ROBERT HALDANE, Esq.

VOL. II.

NEW EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED.

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EXPOSITION, &c.

CHAPTER VI.

In the preceding part of the Epistle the universal depravity and guilt of man, and the free salvation through. the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, had been fully exhibited. Paul now proceeds to prove the intimate connexion between the justification of believers and their sanctification. He commences by stating an objection which has in all ages been advanced as an unanswerable argument against salvation by grace. He asks, what is the consequence of the doctrine he has been inculcating? If justification be bestowed through faith, without works, and if, where sin abounded, grace has much more abounded, may we not continue in sin that grace may abound? No objection could be more plausible. It is such as will forcibly strike every natural man, and is as common now as it was in the days of the Apostle.

Paul repels this charge by declaring the union of believers with Jesus Christ, by whom, as is represented in baptism, his people are dead to sin, and risen with

MURRAY AND GIBB, PRINTERS, GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH.

EXPOSITION, &c.

CHAPTER VI.

In the preceding part of the Epistle the universal depravity and guilt of man, and the free salvation through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, had been fully exhibited. Paul now proceeds to prove the intimate connexion between the justification of believers and their sanctification. He commences by stating an objection which has in all ages been advanced as an unanswerable argument against salvation by grace. He asks, what is the consequence of the doctrine he has been inculcating? If justification be bestowed through faith, without works, and if, where sin abounded, grace has much more abounded, may we not continue in sin that grace may abound? No objection could be more plausible. It is such as will forcibly strike every natural man, and is as common now as it was in the days of the Apostle.

Paul repels this charge by declaring the union of believers with Jesus Christ, by whom, as is represented in baptism, his people are dead to sin, and risen with