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Excerpt from S. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: Illustrated From Divines of the Church of England
Safely build themselves It is not surprising, then, that, with these grand characteristics, it should have been always received by Christians, as it now is by ourselves, with such eminent distinction. And this distinction finds a parallel in the Hebrew Scriptures of the Old Testament, where Isaiah, in consequence of the transcendent excellency of his writings, ranks be fore his other brother-prophets, some of whom prophe sied before him. This resemblance between them may be more remarkable, because they were both moved by the holy ghost to dwell with such peculiar em phasis on the same great event - one, surely, of the greatest in the world's religious history - the union of Jews and Gentiles in the Church of the Living God. Indeed the importance of that event, as set forth in the Epistle before us, adds not; a little to its exceeding value. In this point of view, it seems beyond all others, to be that Epistle of S. Paul in which he gives the fullest proof of his-ministry, as one, called of Goo to be the Apostle of the Gentiles. He fails not, on other occasions, to shew the heart-felt interest he took in their salvation; but this feeling (as we shall see) pervades every part of this Divine Scripture, and is interwoven with its main substance and argu ment. We find him, at other times, engaged in his proper element of preaching the Gospel to them, and of calling them into christ's Church; but here we behold him following them with parental watchfulness and care, after they were admitted into the true fold; and labouring, more especially, to reconcile the pre judices of the Jewish believers to that admission, and to.
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