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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE BELIEVER RECKONING HIMSELF DEAD TO SIN. THE BELIEVER RECKONING HIMSELF DEAD TO SIN. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.?Romans vi. 11. This chapter contains passages as great in interest, if not greater, than any in the Epistles. Here are given us the links which unite justification with sanctification. Here we are taught how the righteousness which is imputed to us by faith leads to the righteousness which is manifested in spiritual obedience. On no subject is there a greater lack of spiritual discernment than on the manner in which a believer becomes holy,?how he that is justified becomes sanctified. To understand the apostle's argument in this chapter, we must trace the whole drift of his reasoning on the great subject of God's grace, as manifested in the atoning death of Christ for His people. In reading the Bible, we are too apt to forget that the division of chapters and verses is entirely arbitrary andartificial, and for the convenience of the reader, and that, as originally written, the continuity of Scripture was unbroken. Many overlook this, and so it has come to pass that they make a real separation between chapter and chapter, so much so indeed, that some speak of the wilderness of the seventh chapter, of the unhappy seventh chapter of this epistle to the Romans, and of the happy eighth, forgetting that we ought to read one of these letters to the Churches as we read the letter of an ordinary friend, not in fragments, but as an entire whole, through which runs the drift of one prevailing conception. St Paul carries on from the beginning of this Epistle to the Church at Rome an unbroken chain of the closest argument, and is setting forth one of the idlest expos...