The Family Expositor Author:Philip Doddridge 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: The yews made their boast In the Jaw.: SECT. V. Paul proceeds tojix the charge upon the yews, that theu weresin- ners, as -well as the Gentiles ; and conse... more »quently stood in need of justification by the grace of the gospel, as well as they-. Rom. II. 17, to the end. II. 17. Romans 11.17. EHOLD. thou T HAVE hitherto been speaking of the inex- art called Jew, J cusable guilt of those who have the greatest v- and restest in the n L j j '- Uw.and makest thy opportunity of knowing their duty, and in con- Rom bout of God; sequence of this acknowledge it, and condemn ;,. 17" others for acting contrary to it ; while yet they are guilty of the same evils. I will now keep on the reserve no longer ; but will boldly de clare, that in what I have said concerning such, I meant the conviction, not merely of hea then philosophers, but of wicked Jews ; and if thou, O reader, art such an one, I apply myself personally to thee. Behold, thou bearest the name of a yew, and thou reposest thyself owthe knowledge and profession of the law, as if that would save thee ; and thou gloriest in the true God, in whom thou believest ; .as if thy descent and profession, by virtue of the pe culiar covenant he made with thv fathers, must 18 And knowest necessarily entitle thee to his favour. Thou 18 tit wiU, and ipprov- boastest of it as thine honour and happiness, manent, that thou tnowest [his] will ; not merely by knf instructed out uncertain conjecture and reasoning, but by an of the Uw, express revelation; and that thou accurately discernest and distinguishest upon things that differ? which untaught nature may in many respects confound ; being thyself well instruct ed out of the law, having been from thy infancy cat...« less