...tidings, that publisheth peace ! that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation !" 16. But they have not all obeyed the Gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report ? 17. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. It is true, as some might object,...

...mure in connection with each other. Ver. 16-21. 'But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaius saith. Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by tini word of God. But 1 say, Have they not hoard? Yes verily, their sound weat into all the earth,...

...without a preacher? and how shall they preach except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad...? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God " Thus also at the close of the 2 Cor. ch. v. : " All things are of God, who hath reconciled...

...than merely the assent of the understanding, because it is called an obeying the gospel. Rom. x. 16, " But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report ?" 1 Pet. iv. 17, " For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first...

...commandments of God. To this add those passages where St. Paul explains faith by Rom.io.i6. obedience. Thus, " But they have not all obeyed the Gospel, for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report ?" Who iv. does not here perceive that to believe and to obey the iv Gospel signify the same with St....

...entertained by us, as the preaching and preachers of the gospel. How beautiful art the feet of them, fyc. 16 established, Here an objection is tacitly implied and answered: some might say, "If tl}e gospel be thus excellent,...

...assent of the understanding, because it is called an obeying the gospel. Rom. x. 16, " But they hare not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report t" 1 Pet. iv. 17, " For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first...

...prove the people had not obeyed the Gospel, because they had not Rom. i0.i6. believed it, saying, " But they have not all obeyed the Gospel ; for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?" As taking it for granted, that as they could not believe it, but they would obey it ; so that they...

...became judicially blinded by the withdrawal of God's Grace ; as Esaias said again, HE HATH BLINDED > They have not all obeyed the Gospel : for Esaias saith, Lord, who heaven. They were silent also as to His sufferings, but (as St. Peter declares) the same Prophets,...

...are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things ! 18But they have not all obeyed the gospel. . For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17So then faith comeik by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18But I say, Have they not heard...