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8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

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13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,3 and the promise made of none effect:

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h GEN. xvii. 10, 11: This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall círcumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

i Ver. 12, 16. GAL. iii. 7.

See on LUKE, xix. 9.

* GEN. xvii. 4, &c: As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. GAL. iii. 29: And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. See on ACTs, iii. 25.

'GAL. ii. 21: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

15 Because "the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be 1by grace; oto the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham ; P who is the father of us all,

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do. iii. 18: If the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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JOHN, XV. 22: If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloke for their sin. ROM. iii. 20: By the law is the knowledge of sin. do. v. 13, 20: Sin is not imputed when there is no law. The law entered, that the offence might abound. do. vii. 8, 10, 11: Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 1 Cor. xv. 56: The strength of sin is the law. 2 COR. iii. 7, 9: But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away for if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. GAL. iii. 10, 19, 23: For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made.-Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 1 JOHN, iii. 4: Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the law. do. v. 17 : All unrighteousness is sin. n See on ROM. iii. 24.

° GAL. iii. 22: But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

PISA. li. 2: The words under ver. 1. Rom. ix. 8: They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

9 GEN. xvii. 5: Neither shall thy name any more be called

father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickener the dead, and calleth those things which he act as though they were,

Is Who against hope believed in ice, that he . might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shail thy seed be.

19 And being not weak in faith, the considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

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Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Rom. viii. 11: He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Epa. ii. 1,5: And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace ye are saved.

*Rom. ix. 26: And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. ̄`1 Cor. i. 28: And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are. 1 PET. ii. 10: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God; which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Gen. xv. 5: Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

"GEN. xvii. 17: Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? do. xviii. 11: Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. HEB. xi. 11, 12: Through faith also Farah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the y in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore

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20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, 'he was able also to per

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22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

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23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

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24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;6

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▾ GEN. Xviii. 14: Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. Ps. cxv. 3: Our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. LUKE, i. 37, 45: With God nothing shall be impossible. And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. HEB. xi. 19: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

w Roм. xv. 4: Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. 1 Cor. ix. 10: For our sakes, no doubt, this is written. do. x. 6, 11: Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition. 2 TIM. iii. 16: All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

* ACTs, ii. 39: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

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z ISA. liii. 5, 6: But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity

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1 Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, 2 and joy in our hope, 8 that since we were reconciled by his blood, when we were enemies, 10 we shall much more be saved, being reconciled: 12 as sin and death came by Adam, 17 so much more righteousness and life by Jesus Christ: 20 Where sin abounded, grace did superabound. THEREFORE being "justified by faith, we

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us all. MAT. xx. 28: The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Roм. iii. 25: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. do. v. 6: For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. do. viii. 32: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 2 COR. v. 21: He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. GAL. i. 4: Who gave himself for our sins. do. ii. 20: The GAL.1.4: Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. v. 2: Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 1 TIM. ii. 6: Who gave himself a ransom for all. TIT. ii. 14: Who gave himself for us. HEB. ix. 14, 28: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 1 PET. ii. 24: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. do. iii. 18: For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. REV. i. 5: And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.

a1 COR. xv. 17: If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 1 PET. i. 21: Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

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* ISA. xxxii. 17: And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance

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