The Truth Vindicated

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: brother Reviewer and Isaac Crewdson, and say, in effect, if not in words, that the Scripture is but a dead letter, without the power of the Holy Spirit ?'' And does he not know that that power can even give dry bones life, and even of the stones, raise up children unto Abraham ? And does not this law bring...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: brother Reviewer and Isaac Crewdson, and say, in effect, if not in words, that the Scripture is but a dead letter, without the power of the Holy Spirit ?'' And does he not know that that power can even give dry bones life, and even of the stones, raise up children unto Abraham ? And does not this law bring wrath and condemnation ? but does not salvation come through Jesus Christ ? Does not even the law of human society in some cases bring death to the transgressor ? and when the law thus brings condemnation is it not the royal prerogative of mercy alone that can set free from it ? Is not this the power of human law, viz.?condemnation, be it little or much ? And is not such the power of the law of which the Apostle speaks ? Does he not say that it worketh wrath ? Does he not say the law which brings no condemnation, as contra-distinguished from that which does, is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jeus ? Does he not say that the law which brings condemnation could not set him free ? Doth he not give us to understand that the law which brings condemnation requires a righteousness, or an obedience, which it has not the power to enforce ? Doth he not plainly draw a distinction between the dead letter of the law itself, the righteousness it requires, and the power of the law-giver? Doth he not clearly draw this distinction, when he saith, for what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit ? So much for speaking in terms of disparagement of the Scripture. Allow me, however/ another observation or two. I would ask what is law in reference t...