The Family Expositor - v. 4 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 law : SECT. V. Paulproceeds tofx the charge upon the Jews, that they weresin- ners, as well as the Gentiles ; and conseque... more »ntly stood in need of justification by the grace of the gospel, as well as they. Rom. II. 17, to the end. Romans II. 17. ROMANS II. ir. TJEHOLD, thou T HAVE hitherto been speaking of the inex- Sect. -Lartcnlledajew, J cusable guilt of those who have the greatest v' and rcstest in the r i i j ji —— law, and makest thy opportunity of knowing their duty, and in con- Rom boast of God; sequence of this acknowledge it, and condemn j;. ij- 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 declare, that in what I have said concerning such, I meant the conviction, not merely of heathen 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 Jew, and thou reposest thyself on the 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 peculiar covenant he made with thy fathers, must 18 And knowest necessarily entitle thee to his favour. Thou 18 Aw wjU, and approv- boastest of it as thine honour and happiness, £ moere eSemat thou knowest [his] will,- not merely by being instructed out uncertain conjecture and reasoning, but by an of the law, express revelation; and that thou accurately dtscernest and distinguishes! upon things that differ? which untaught nature may in many respects confound ; being thyself well instruct- edout of the law, having been from thy infancy catechised and educated in the accurate knowl- Be...« less