ON THE NINTH OF ROMANS; ELECTION, AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. BY REV. ASA MAHAN, A.M., PRESIDENT OF THE OBERLIN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, BODI LONDON: WARD & Co., AND PARTRIDGE & OKEY, PATERNOSTER ROW. INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. THE reasons which have induced me, a stranger in England, and coming into this kingdom, with no expectation whatever of publishing any new work while remaining here, to present the following production to the British public are these. Some time prior to leaving my native country, I remarked to one of my associates in the Institution over which I am permitted to preside, that I was perfectly certain that the common explanation of the ninth of Romans, was based upon a fundamental misapprehension of the Apostle's meaning and design in the chapter; and that, if my life was spared, I would attempt at least, a demonstration of the fact, by giving the true exposition. I had at that time satisfied my own mind, in respect to what was the design of the Apostle in the chapter, and in respect to the meaning of all the particular passages found in it, with one or two exceptions; and I left home with the intention of devoting a large portion of the present winter, wherever I might be called to spend it, in a more extended and critical study of the chapter than I had before been able to give it. On my arrival in this kingdom, I learned b |