Expository discourses on the v., vi., & vii. chapters of the Epistle to the Romans - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...our faculties and our will upon the matter, whether we will accept and endorse the obligation. But it is at our peril that we cut the cords or cast them from us. It is easy to say "our parents had no right to commit us to Christianity." The proof might be more difficult than the statement. The system of generation and succession creates an heirship for good or evil which the heritors have to deal with as their judgment and interest may direct them. Our parents hand over to us their wealth, which we make no scruple to accept; their reputation, which we are proud of if it be good, and blush for if bad; their hereditary ailments and diseases, which we have to deal with the best way we can. And if we fall heirs to their religion we have little to complain of, if it be true and good. They had a right to promise that they would give us Christian education. They had a right to offer us at the font. And they did us a benefit. They did their (l) Gal. iii. 27. duty. Whether we will do ours is another question. As many as have been baptized at a capable time of life should act according to their engagement. Those who, on the contrary, were baptized at a tender age, are in our judgment committed by the bond, and are under obligation in riper life to sanction what was done, and act accordingly. We linger a moment longer on this third verse: "Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death "--into the purpose of His death, and into the benefit of His death, which is included in the purpose. His death was for the good of believers, for their justification and sanctification. Eut it could only be so as it had a relation to sin, was a sacrifice for it, and a putting of it away. His death was intended to be the death...