...Johniv. 19. 'Jehnxv. 16. • Rem. xji. I. CCCCLXXX. THE ABUNDANT CHACE OT COD. Bom. v. 2O, 21. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesut Christ our Lord. FROM eternity God determined...

...the race of men, as far as made known to them, even to this day. " The law worketh wrath :" nay, " the law entered, that the offence might " abound: but where sin abounded, grace did much " more abound."1 To speak of the possibility of man's doing what no mere man, out of the innumerable millions...

...said this, ' Let us do evil, that good may come (z),' because he had said, 'The (z) Rom. c. 3. v. 8. ' The law entered, that the offence might abound ; but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (a)\ which is true, for this reason, because men receiving the law, who most proudly presumed...

...particulars, in which we should otherwise have remained ignorant, or have been hewildered in error. " The (i law entered, that the offence might abound ; but " where sin abounded grace did much more abound." ' We should scarcely have discovered this end, which God proposed, in giving the law, by abstract...

...all men, so by the 'righteousness of God, the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. Moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound,...as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto life eternal, by Jesus Christ our Lord ; for God hath concluded them...

...man's disobediance, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound...as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord." The Apostle well knowing...

...the design of the giving of the law. Rom. v. 20, 21. " Moreover, the law entered that the of" fence might abound : but where sin abounded, " grace did...sin " hath reigned unto death, even so might grace " reign through righteousness unto eternal life, " by Jesus Christ our Lord." And these, indeed, were...

...remarking that a remedy is provided adequate to our disease: — nay more than adequate ; for, where sin abounded, grace did much more abound ; that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life*." In drawing to a conclusion, we shall briefly attempt...

...vain. No. ' There is hope in Israel concerning this ' thing. And where sin haj abounded, grace shall ' much more abound. That as sin hath reigned unto ' death, even so might grace reign through righteous. ' iiess unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.' Fourthly. Conversion...

...of this and of the next chapter, and finally concludes with these strong and striking expressions: "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound....as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord." In the second Epistle to...