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…

Justification not only exempts a sinner from hell, and wrath, and eternal death, which he had been obnoxious to, but it also appoints him to life, and peace, and salvation; and this also must be done according to the tenor of the law. Now if we search, we shall find that the law…

Explication. It was showed before, that all the institutions of the Old Testament had respect to the coming of Christ in the flesh, who was the end of the Law (Romans 10:4), and thereupon they were subject to alteration or abolition upon a twofold account. First, Because that wh…

Qu. 9. How do we in our observation, profess our subjection to the Lord Jesus Christ and his Gospel? Answ. In that being all of them 1. Appointed by him as the head law-giver, King of his Church. And 2. Made by him the ensigns and tokens of his Kingdom, and subjects, in their du…

Q. These covenants are only concerning external and earthly blessings; but is there not some covenant concerning everlasting happiness, besides that covenant of grace in Christ? A. Yes, that which is usually called the covenant of works (Galatians 4:24, 25; Romans 10:5). Q. What…

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…

Romans 8:35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Romans 10:29: The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 2 Timothy 2:19: The foundation of God remains sure, and has this seal, the Lord knows who are his.

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. Galatians 3:22. The Scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ s…

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,…

Because the Word without the Almighty power of the Spirit is but a dead letter; and the Work has no more power than the Word; nor so much neither. For Faith comes rather by hearing of a Word than by seeing of a Work (Romans 10:17). And the light of a renewed Conscience, is a cre…

But after the entrance of sin it became weak and utterly insufficient to any such purpose; for by the deeds of the Law can no flesh be justified. Therefore Christ is become the end of the Law for righteousness, to every one that believes (Romans 10:4). And by whoever this is den…

How much more must it do so, if that be changed, removed, or taken away, which was not only a material part of it, but the very hinge, whereon the whole observance of it did depend and turn. And the whole of this System of Laws, is called ⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩ a Command, becau…

3. It revived the Promise of that Covenant, that of eternal life upon perfect obedience. So the Apostle tells us, that Moses thus describeth the righteousness of the law, that the man which does these things shall live by them (Romans 10:5), as he does (Leviticus 18:5). Now this…

He would also give them their day, and make them a sufficient tender of mercy, which he had now done towards forty years. In this space, through the ministry of the Apostles, and other faithful dispensers of the Word, the Gospel had been proposed to all persons of that nation th…

And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? (Romans 10:13, 14, 15.) That is, by God himself; for neither does the Apostle discourse, nor has he any occasion in that place to discourse concerning the ordinary call of persons to an of…

No, he shall not, he cannot: the terror of the Lord makes him afraid; there is no rest in his soul now by reason of his sin, and the danger that he is in thereby: well then, shall he fall in with the way of the Gospel? He should indeed, but he cannot: for he is ignorant thereof,…

It is of no little importance to us, that our good works have their due place in our divinity: and many treatises of such divinity as the English nation has been of later years defiled and abused withal, have not only been ineffectual to procure those good works, which they have…

The spirit is wounded, and he cannot bear it; a sense of wrath lies on him, so that now he can no more rest, and sleep as in days past. (2.) All that he has built, and leaned upon, now fails him: he would have done what they endeavored (Romans 10:3), namely, have established his…

Take heed of resting in a dead faith; and labor for a lively faith. In other words, see that you accept the offers of the Gospel, sincerely; or that you submit to, accept of Christ as offered in the Gospel: I use that word submit: the Apostle uses it (Romans 10:3). We cannot fin…

The Reverend Author gives this reason; because that text (Romans 11:20) speaks only of such as have been received into membership by their personal faith, and covenanting with the Church visibly. A. The text clearly speaks of the people or nation of the Jews, of whom it is said,…

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.

8. This is true both positively and negatively of the Catholic Church invisible of the elect: all that are of it shall be saved; and none shall be saved but those that belong to it (Ephesians 5:25, 26, 27). Of the Catholic visible professing Church negatively; that no adult pers…

Now all these things do make, constitute, and are the church-state and worship enquired after. Therefore as Christ always has and ever will have an invisible Kingdom in this world, in the souls of elect believers, led, guided, ruled by his Spirit; so he will have a visible Kingd…

Let him that is athirst come, and whoever will let him take of the water of life freely: You are not worthy, but you are thirsty, or else from where come these groans? And by the way take notice of the pride that is in legal dejection: men are loath to be beholding to Christ, th…

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.

I beseech you content not yourselves with owning religion in your hearts, Christ as he deserves, so he expects, your mouths and tongues also. Romans 10:9. If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart you shall be saved. Thus David was not…

2. Cherish the motions of the Spirit: and thank God and bless Him on your bended knees, for that little you have; for those beginnings He has given you; though it be but common, though it be but little; yet bless Him for it: it is the way to have more. 3. Attend and listen to th…

On this sandy bottom most professors build their hopes for heaven and claim their privileges among the best of saints on earth, even to eat and drink in Christ's presence. Indeed without knowledge the mind cannot be good, and the history and knowledge of gospel truths is necessa…

4. They are yet in unbelief that are so engaged to the things and contentments of the world as that they cannot part with them for Christ (John 5:44; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15). 5. They that establish their own righteousness (Romans 10:3). We must remember that faith is a going out…

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…

Or if they do not return to wallow in the same mire of their former pollutions, they betake themselves to the shades of some superstitious observances; as it is in the Papacy. For they openly succeed into the room of the Jews, who being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and…

It cannot be otherwise; where the voice of Christ does sound effectually, there they justify this: wisdom is justified of her children (Luke 7:35). How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace (Romans 10:15)? that is, they see such beauty in the ways of God…

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, &c. Mark how invocation and faith are linked together; and Paul's reason may be framed thus.

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 Ghost 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 nea…

As also the various enforcements of such precepts and confirmations of such promises, with copious explications of the one and the other. And as it is called the ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18), the word wherein peace is preached by Jesus Christ (Acts 10:36), the…

But the apostle shows at length that the law itself is unequal to this task — namely, that anyone should please God — in Romans 3 and 4. 3. Also, "without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Hebrews 11:6); but "faith is from hearing, and hearing through the word of God" (Roma…

For many, ensnared again by the lures of pleasures, shaking out of their breasts this whole beginning of divine work, whatever it may be, return again to the wallowing of vices, to perish eternally (2 Peter 2:20, 21). Some are pleased with a righteousness as it were from works o…