Sermons And Other Practical Works

Excerpt from The Sermons and Other Practical Works, Vol. 2: Of the Late Reverend Ralph Erskine, A. M., Dunfermline, Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons, Besides Poetical Pieces This is a very strange and wonderful text, that flesh and blood can hardly hear Without suspecting that it savours too much of a new scheme of doctrine; and, if it were not the divinely-inspired words of the apostle, it would hardly escape being taxed as an Antinomian paradox. I remember Luther upon the text says, The false apostles taught, unless you live to the law, you cannot live to God and therefore Paul here must be the most heretical of all heretics; his heresy is unheard-of heresy, reason and human wisdom cannot receive it, that, if we will live to God, we must be dead wholly to the law: yet so it is here, he declares it of himself, and in the name of all believers in Christ, yea, as the very doctrine of faith, I through the law, am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.