Romans 1

First we must be called before glorified (Romans 8:30). A man uncalled can lay claim to nothing in the Bible but threatenings; a man in the state of nature is not fit for heaven, no more than a man in his filth and rags is fit to come into a king's presence: a man in his pure na…

2. A Christian grows Gradu, in the degree of grace; he goes from strength to strength (Psalm 84:7), namely, from one degree of grace to another. A saint goes [in non-Latin alphabet], from faith to faith (Romans 1:17), and his love abounds [in non-Latin alphabet], more and more (…

As the chameleon is changed into the color of that which it looks upon, so faith looking on Christ, changes a Christian into the similitude of Christ. 2. By the growth of it; if it be a true faith, it grows: living things grow (Romans 1:17). From faith to faith; [illegible].

The creation is enough to convince the heathen that there is a God. There are two books, out of which God will judge and condemn the heathen, namely the book of conscience (Romans 2:15), who have the law written in their heart: and the book of the creation (Romans 1:20), the inv…

Resp. God sees all the sins of men, but is no more defiled with them, than the sun is defiled with the vapours that arise out of the earth: God sees sin not as a patron to approve it, but as a judge to punish it. Use 1. Is God so infinitely holy, then see how unlike to God sin i…

God delivered Israel from the pollutions of Egypt; Egypt was a bad air to live in, it was infected with idolatry. The Egyptians were gross idolaters, they were guilty of that which the Apostle speaks of (Romans 1:23). They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image…

- 1. Heathens. - 2. Turks. - 3. Jews. - 4. Papists. - 5. Protestants. 1. By Heathens: They have a knowledge of a Godhead by the light of nature (Romans 1:19-20), but they dishonor God and sin against the light of nature. The Egyptians worship an ox, the Persians worship the sun,…

Fifthly, God remembers all our deeds of charity, and takes them kindly at our hands. Hebrews 6:10. God is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love which you have shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints. The chief butler may forget Joseph's kindness,…

Question: But how does the Lord show his abhorring of the adulterer? Answer: In giving him up to a reprobate mind and a seared conscience (Romans 1:26). And now he is in such a condition that he cannot repent.

Some men's heads are the devil's mint-house — they are minting mischief. Romans 1:30: Inventors of evil things. Some invent new oaths, others new snares: such were those presidents that invented a decree against Daniel, and got the king to sign it (Daniel 6:9).

To be able to say God is mine, is more than to have all the mines of gold and silver. 3. Seeing there is a God, let us serve and worship him as God: It was an indictment brought in against them (Romans 1:21). They glorified him not as God.

2. A Christian may weep under an affliction, yet patiently submit to God's will. God allows tears; it is a sin to be without natural affection (Romans 1:31). Grace makes the heart tender, strangulat inclusus dolor; weeping gives vent to sorrow, expletur lachrymis dolor.

The preceding discourse (as has been declared) was written for the use of ordinary Christians; or such as might be in danger to be seduced, or any way entangled in their minds, by the late attempts against the truths pleaded for. For those to whom the dispensation of the Gospel…

Why, they answer, that he is not a meer man, because he was born of a Virgin; Strange! that that should be an argument to prove him more than a man, which the Scripture and all men in their right wits grant to be an invincible reason, to prove him to be a man, and as he was born…

(Isaiah 33:14) Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire, who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? (Romans 1:32) Who knowing the judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death. (Romans 3:5, 6) Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance?

Acts 20:28. Feed the Church of God which he has purchased with his own blood. Romans 1:3, 4. Concerning his Son Jesus our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the r…

It was indeed suited in the dispensation of God, to the work that the Lord Jesus had to fulfill in the world, that before his passion and resurrection, the knowledge of his divine nature as to his individual person, should be concealed from the most of men. For this cause, altho…

And the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship, consisteth in its relation to God by Jesus Christ, as the merciful high-Priest over his house, with the glorious administration of the spirit therein. The order also of it lies in the due and regular observation of all that Christ…

Quest. 19. What is an instituted Church of the Gospel? A society of persons, called out of the world, or their natural worldly state, by the administration of the Word and Spirit, to the obedience of the faith, or the knowledge and worship of God in Christ, joined together in an…

Question 2. By what means do we come to know that God will thus be worshipped? That God is to be worshipped, and that according to his own will and appointment, is a principal branch of the law of our creation, written in our hearts (Romans 1:21; Romans 2:14-15; Acts 15:16-17; A…

First, Carefull walking so as to give no offence to one another; which although it be a moral duty in reference to all, yet therein especial regard is to be had to other Churches of Christ, that they be not in any thing grieved or tempted (1 Corinthians 10:32): "Give none offenc…

Q. What is his exaltation in respect of his Godhead? A. It is nothing else but the manifestation of that divine power and glory of his, which had been so much concealed in all the time of his humiliation (John 17:5; Romans 1:4). Q. And what is his exaltation in respect of his ma…

Q. What else may be said for the clearing of God's justice herein? A. God being the Judge of the world may punish sin with what punishment he sees meet, and so by giving sinners up to further sin (Psalm 81:11, 12; Romans 1:24, 25, 26, &c.; 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12). Q. What may…

Especially seeing 3. there is so much strength of carnal and corrupt reason in men, ready to forge and invent strong reasons and arguments to confirm those sad fears and darkened apprehensions, and those drawn from those dealings of God's Spirit mentioned. For as it is said of t…

Again: Whatever truth you saw was in those which were just in old time, the faith only of the mediator saves them, who shed his blood for the forgiveness of sins. Obiect. III. The power of God is known to the Gentiles (Romans 1). Christ is the power of God.

Acts 13:39. By him every one that believes, is justified. Romans 1:16. The Gospel is the power of God to salvation to every one that believes. Romans 10:4. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.

By faith. Learn here the true nature of true faith: it brings forth true obedience where ever it is: and therefore Christian obedience is called the obedience of faith, Romans 1:5. And these two cannot be separated, no more than light from the sun, or heat from fire.

For Atheism, blasphemy, contempt of God's word and worship, with open profaning of God's Sabbath, do every where abound; to omit the heinous crimes against the second table, as oppression, adultery, and blood touching blood: for all which, we may justly fear, that the Lord will…

And [in non-Latin alphabet] is frequently used in the New Testament in this sense. Romans 1:23. [in non-Latin alphabet]; Into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man; that is, into the likeness of a corruptible man. The image of the man is not something distinct from him,…

The work here intended is the work of faith; the whole work of obedience to God, whereof faith is the principle, and that which moves us thereunto. Hence it is called the obedience of faith (Romans 1:5). And this obedience of faith according to the Gospel is called there, [〈 in…

But they saw it darkly, and as in a glass, during the time of his humiliation. But after his resurrection his glory was unvailed and made conspicuous, even when he was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dea…

They do serve: They do according to the Law officiate in sacred things; that is, they did so de jure, in their first institution, and continued de facto so to do still. And the word [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], is applied both to the inward spiritual, and outward instituted holy w…

This men were greatly in the dark to, under the first Covenant, although all stable peace with God does depend thereon. For it is in the Gospel, that the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith (Romans 1:17). Indeed the righteousness of God without the Law, is witne…

The Vulgar Latine rendets it by Iustificationes; from the inclusion of Ius, Iustum in the signification of it. In the new Testament it is used, Luke 1:6, Romans 1:32, chap. 2:26, chap. 5:16, chap. 8:4, Hebrews 9:1, ver. 10, Revelation 15:4, chap. 19:8. And in no one place does i…

Many things do evidence a condecency to Divine wisdom, in the determination of that season. As, (1.) He testified his displeasure against sin, in suffering the generality of mankind to lie so long under the fatal effects of their apostacy, without relief or remedy (Acts 14:16; c…

No men while the natural principle of conscience remains in them, can cast off all the convictions of sin (Romans 2:14, 15). That it is the judgement of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death (Romans 1:32). But yet some there are who so far despise these conv…

And that it does intend an earnest desire, we shewed in the consideration of the word foregoing. And the word is never used in the New Testament, but either in a bad sense, to express the impetuous acting of lust, as (Matthew 5:28; Galatians 5:17; Romans 1:1), or a most fervent…

For to these two persons alone was the promise confirmed. And therefore is he said in one place to be the seed of David according to the flesh (Romans 1:3), and in another, to have taken on him the seed of Abraham (Hebrews 2:16). Herein lay Abraham's peculiar interest in the spi…

(5) Wherever there is mention made elsewhere in the Scripture of the Holy Spirit, or the Eternal Spirit, or the Spirit absolutely with reference to any actings of the Person of Christ, or on it, either the Holy Spirit, or his own Divine Nature is intended. See Isaiah 61:1, 2; Ro…

For (1) it was herein the peculiar design of God to glorify his goodness, love, grace, and mercy by Jesus Christ, and he will do it in an abundant manner. He had before glorified his eternal power and infinite wisdom in the creation of the world and all things therein contained…

I. The inevitable certainty of the eternal punishment of Gospel-despisers depends on the essential holiness and righteousness of God, as the Ruler and Judge of all. It is nothing but what he in his just judgment, which is according to truth, accounts them worthy of (Romans 1:32)…

In the first, there are to be considered, (1.) The note of connexion in the adversative particle [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩]: (2.) There is the qualification of the person spoken of, he is the just. (3.) The means of his being so, or of his obtaining the event mentioned, which i…

But it may be said, that they enjoyed the word of God in their state of Judaism; they did so, as to the written word; for to them were committed the oracles of God (Romans 3:2). But it is the word of God as preached in the dispensation of the Gospel that is eminently thus called…

It is the way of God to do so when more inferior manifestation of himself, his Word and will are rejected, or not improved. So he dealt with the Gentiles for their abuse of the light of nature, with the revelation made of him by the works of creation and providence (Romans 1:24,…

The Affection of love is natural, but the Grace is not. Men are by nature [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩]God-haters, Romans 1:30. The wicked would fly from God; they would neither be under his rules, nor within his reach; they fear God, but do not love him.

But it may be alleged to the contrary, that the saying of the Father, This day have I begotten you, is expounded by Paul of the time of Christ's resurrection (Isaiah 2:7; Acts 13:30, 33). Answer: We must distinguish between generation itself, and the manifestation of it: and of…

2. His office and condition, the Servant of Jesus Christ. It is a thing usual with the Apostles to prefix this among other their honorary titles; as (Romans 1:1) Paul a Servant of Jesus Christ: so (Philippians 1:1) the greatest honor that he would put upon himself and Timothy, w…

Again there is no question that God directs his commandment against a sin in speculation, but against some common and wicked practice of the Jews — and that was to represent God himself in likenesses and bodily forms — Isaiah 40:18. And that was also the practice of the Gentiles…

When Julian objected to the Christians that they worshipped their martyrs as God, Cyril grants the memory and honor of them but denies their adoration — and of invocation he makes no mention at all. Ambrose on Romans 1: Is any so mad that he will give to the earl the honor of th…

For his obedience in fulfilling the law, is above Adam's righteousness, indeed above the righteousness of all angels. For they were all but creatures, and their obedience the obedience of creatures: but Christ his obedience is the obedience or righteousness of God; so termed (Ro…