Romans 10

2. They pray to angels. Angel-worship is forbidden (Colossians 2:18-19), and that we may not pray to angels is clear from Romans 10:14: How shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? We may not pray to any but whom we may believe in; but we may not believe in an an…

This is to dishonor God, and take his name in vain; this is to make God either an idol, that he has ears and hears not, or a liar, who promises mercy to the penitent, but will not make good his word (John 5:10): He that believes not, has made God a liar. When the Apostle says, H…

3. The ear; which is the conduit pipe through which knowledge is conveyed. Better lose our seeing than our hearing, for faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17). To have an ear open to God, is the best jewel on the ear. 4. The tongue. David calls the tongue his glory (Psalm 16:9).…

Faith is a humble grace, it gives all to Christ, it is an adorer of free grace; and free grace being advanced here, God has his glory, and it is his highest wisdom to exalt his own glory. 3. The way of working faith declares God's wisdom; it is wrought by the Word preached (Roma…

Answer: No: as grace is not sufficient to make a minister, so neither are gifts; therefore it is observable that the Scripture puts a difference between gifting and sending. Romans 10:15: How shall they preach, unless they be sent? If gifts were enough to constitute a minister,…

The Bible is bespangled with promises made to prayer, (Isaiah 30:19) "He will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry." "The Lord is rich to all that call upon him" (Romans 10:12). (Jeremiah 29:13) "Then shall you find me when you search for me with all your heart."

(Matthew 7:1). 6. Lay aside disobedience, (Romans 10:21). All the day long have I stretched forth my hands to a disobedient people.

Surely, were it not for the ministry, you would not be a vineyard, but a desert. Were it not for the ministry, you would be destitute of the two seals of the covenant, Baptism and the Lord's Supper; you would be infidels; for faith comes by hearing; and how shall they hear witho…

And all angel-worship is forbidden (Colossians 2:18-19). We must not pray to any but whom we may believe in (Romans 10:14). How shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed?

While the saints have their lamp of grace burning here, they need the oil of ordinances to be continually dropping upon them; but there will be no need of this oil when they are stars in Heaven. If you intend to get to Heaven, be swift to hear; for faith comes by hearing (Romans…

When they are in danger of shipwreck, they pray to Saint Nicholas; when they are in the fit of a fever, they pray to Saint Petronelle; when they are in travail, they pray to Saint Margaret. How unlawful it is to invoke Saints in prayer, I will prove from one Scripture (Romans 10…

This differs as much from the goodness of nature you bring into the world, or which has been worked in you by education, as the fire and light of the sun in heaven differs from common fire, or the light of a glow-worm from that of the sun. Now because the Jews rested in such an…

But no man's own righteousness can make him the righteousness of God, nor can God's righteousness be the righteousness of man: therefore it remains, that only Christ, being both God and man, has in him that righteousness, which may make a man the righteousness of God. Thirdly, t…

Now, as God in mercy dealt with these, so did he in like mercy call Rahab the harlot above all the people of Jericho; for, they trusted to their strong walls, and therefore died; but Rahab believed, that the God of Israel was the true God, and so had mercy showed unto her. Now,…

Luke 11:13. If you which are evil can give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to them that desire him. Romans 10:12. He that is Lord over all, is rich to all that call on him. James 4:8. Draw near to God, and he will draw n…

The place and seat of faith (as I think) is the mind of man, not the will: for it stands in a kind of particular knowledge or persuasion, and there is no persuasion but in the mind. Paul says indeed, that we believe with the heart (Romans 10), but by the heart he understands the…

The first is, to whom we are to pray. The answer is, to God alone: Romans 10:14. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed, etc. Mark how invocation and faith are linked together.

Nay, we are commanded only to call upon God: Him only shall you serve (Matthew 4:10). And: How shall we call upon him in whom we have not believed? (Romans 10:14). And we have no promise to be heard but for Christ's sake.

And therefore when this faith shall cease which he wrought for this, he will attain his end without delay: and you (says he) shall attain your end also: and faith thus ceasing, if this salvation of the soul did not succenturiate and recruit it anew, the end of this faith were wh…

2. Consider that the prophet speaks of this report, not as in his own person only, but as in the person of all that ever preached, or shall preach this gospel; therefore this report is not peculiar to Isaiah, but it's our report, the report of the prophets before, and of these a…

So it is with many, they will say, they hope to escape hell, and to get their sin pardoned, and to win to heaven, and they believe it will be so, when in the meantime there is no ground for it, but clear ground to the contrary. A fifth ground is, folks' spiritual and practical i…

I shall first name some direct Scriptures holding out some things essentially accompanying faith, and then shall add others having more specific characters for the more particular differencing of this, helping to the decision of this great question. The first mark whereby you ma…

Indeed, 3. By the preaching of the Gospel, He holds out what men's ability is, or rather what is their inability, and by His external calling gives them in it occasion to know this their inability in not giving obedience to His call; and this is no small advantage, when by it th…

2. It is implied, that Jesus Christ is only to be proposed as the object of faith, to be rested on by the hearers of the gospel, and as the only ground of their peace; there is no name that can be mentioned for the salvation of souls, but this name only; and there is no other go…

And therefore, by all means run and flee to him, as having this fear, lest the Avenger of Blood pursue and overtake you; and if you cannot run so fast as you would, yet run as you may; and you have this advantage that the City of Refuge is not far off, it's near you even at your…

The second thing then, is, the duty that lies on people to whom the Lord sends the gospel, or this report concerning Christ, and you may take it in this general; that it lies on all that hear the gospel to believe the report that it brings concerning Christ, and by faith to rece…

There were many Jews, who by the daily sacrifices, which typified this one offering of Christ, were taught that there was no other way to come by pardon and peace with God, but by use making of it; and yet the most part of them, in going about these sacrifices, were slighters of…

This is it that we call you to, even to quit your own feet, and to roll yourselves over on Christ. A fifth expression is, Romans 10:3, where it's called a submitting to the righteousness of God; which is held out in the Gospel, thus, as if a king were proclaiming a pardon to reb…

This is implied in that word, "his knowledge." So, in Romans 10, it is said, "How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard," which says plainly that there cannot be faith, except knowledge precede. I observe this the rather, because many think to come to Heaven with…

Have you not heard it? Yes verily; we may here allude to that Word (Romans 10:16): Doubtless you have heard, the sound thereof is come to you; and you shall never have that to object, that you heard it not. This text, and this same sermon on it, and others, will bear witness, th…

These words show the great scope and design of the covenant of redemption, and of Christ's sufferings agreed upon therein; which have been so much insisted on in the former verses; and that's in a word, that there may be a ground laid down, how a sinner may be justified; therefo…

You will ask men, how does knowledge and faith differ, seeing, wherever there is faith, there is knowledge, though not contrary ways, wherever there is knowledge there is faith? We shall not stand upon this; but shortly we conceive, that knowledge discovers the object, and faith…

We may instance and illustrate it also in the example of the Prodigal, wherein we may find something of all this; when he had been in the height of his distraction and madness, in his natural condition; it is said, he came to himself, he knew and believed that there was meat eno…

Much and long — or many years of preaching, much plain and powerful preaching — and yet little or no fruit; they are snared and taken, and fall backward, for all that. And this was not in Isaiah's days only, but in Christ's days (John 12:37-38), and in Paul's days (Romans 10:16)…

So (Philippians 3:8-9), I count all things to be but dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith, and (Romans 3:25), whom God has…

2. That there is such a kind of sin as unbelief, beside other sins, and such a distinct duty as believing, that if folks could do all other duties, if this duty of believing be wanting, they will be still sinful, and there will be still ground of complaint; and if faith be a par…

4. We shall answer some practical doubts that have, or may have some puzzling influence on the consciences of some Christians; But as I said, we had need, in speaking, and hearing of these things, to be awed with some deep impression of the majesty of God on our hearts, lest we…

We cannot naturally endure it. Therefore, in Romans 10, it's said of the Jews that being ignorant of God's Righteousness, they did not submit nor stoop to the same, but sought to establish their own righteousness. 3. There is a readiness to settle and condescend on almost any ot…

Fourthly, as for directions to help and further you to believe, it's not easy, but very difficult to give them, it being impossible to satisfy the curiosity of nature; neither can any directions be prescribed that without the special work of God's Spirit, can effectuate the thin…

And considering the case of people generally, if our hearts were suitably tender, it would make us even burst for grief to see so many sleeping securely and senselessly in their sins, and in that pitiful posture posting to the pit, if God prevent not. Observation 3. The third ob…

(Galatians 3:10) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. Then there must be none redeemed under the Old Testament, nor any justified, contrary to express Scriptures: (Psalm 32:1-2; Romans 4:1-6; Galatians 3:14; Acts 15:11; Acts 11:16-17; Romans 10:1-3). N…

James commands not such a confession. Daniel's, Ezra's, Peter's confession were some other thing (John 1:20; Acts 19:18; Hebrews 11:13; Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 4:2; Mark 3:6; Joshua 7:19; Daniel 9:4; Romans 10:10; 1 Timothy 6:13; Psalm 32:5; James 5:16; Leviticus 5:5; Leviticus 1…

And one more and greater than all the Prophets, But I say, so Christ God equal with the Father speaks. 2. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? (Romans 10:14).

2. No man living on earth, but he is beholden to Christ (though many know him not) for common helps of providence, and experiences do teach him some more of God by nature. 3. The sound of Christ, God revealed in the Gospel, in the Apostles' ministry is declared, and is gone to t…

Thus the captain of our salvation (being made perfect through sufferings and then crowned with glory and honor in bringing many sons to glory, as Hebrews 2:10, of which company he was captain) is brought in saying to God, verse 13: 'Behold I and the children which God has given…

What the scope of this treatise itself is, the title page and the table that follows will sufficiently inform you; I shall only here acquaint you with what was mine, in a few words. I have by long experience observed many holy and precious souls who have clearly and wholly given…

For the further opening of this point, you shall see it in some things principally, which are ever found in some measure in the spirits of Christian men that have any life in Christ. First, that which is wonderful, and is indeed nowhere found but in them, their very knowledge is…

And had God been pleased at any time to think that these writings should be effectual to convert men to grace, surely, it had been a notable means for the Apostles to have sent sundry epistles to many churches, to whom they should never personally come: But this was their care,…

And therefore as you desire to grow in believing, be diligent in these duties, that you may believe on the name of Christ, and in believing may believe much more. And for you that do not believe savingly, whose faith will not put you in possession of eternal life, though this Sc…

Now to pray in the name of Christ, is not only to pray in humility, but also to pray in faith, and these acts of faith you have in all the prayers that you put up to God according to his will. First, faith directs you to pray only to him, upon whom you have believed (Romans 10:1…