...natural branches, but brake them, off from being a Church or people, take heed lest he spare not you. X|. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou confimie in his goodness: otherwise thou. also shalt be cut off. Behold...

...salvation came unto us ' Gentiles;' adding, in words sufficiently decisive of the point at issue—' Behold therefore * the goodness and severity of God;...severity, but * towards thee goodness, IF THOU CONTINUE IN THAT GOODNESS,' (a provision this worse than absurd, if Calvin's unconditional election he the truth"),...

...high-minded, but fear. 21. For, if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God : on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness ; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23. And they also, if they abide not...

...to speak to the converted Gentiles. Behold therefore, says he, the goodness and severity of God: en them which fell, severity ,. but towards thee, goodness,...in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off". And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God, who cut them...

...is going in the nearest way to heaven : Heb. x. 39. We are not of them, says the apostle, -who dra-w back unto perdition, but of them that believe, to the saving of the sou/. The poor jailor asks a question, What shall I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jeius Christ,...

...righteousness and sanctification. God's goodness to us comes by grace; severity comes by the law; " Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God:...in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off," with the sword furbished at that armory. It is the fiery law that gives the sword of justice...

...we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life (g); " " Behold the goodness, and severity of God: on them which fell,...thou continue in his goodness : otherwise, thou also shall be cut off (h)" Were these men appointed by God to disobedience, then disobedience would be the...

...spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he spare not tliee. Behold, therefore, the goodness f and severity of God! On them which fell, severity;...thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou also shall be cut off." And while he continues therein, he will remember those words of St. Paul, foreseeing...

...of Rome from Christ to antichrist is a fulfilment of Paul's prophecy in his epistle to the Romans; "Behold, therefore, the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity ; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness; otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off," as...

...; but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul."* Here, saving faith is represented as persevering faith ; and perseverance, as being that in faith,...