26 Likewise, also, the Spirit taketh part with us, in aid of our infirmity: for, we know not how to pray for any thing, as we ought; but, the Spirit itself intercedeth, together with our unuttered desires;

27 and he who searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit; that he intercedeth with God for his saints.

28 And we know, that God maketh all things to work together for good, to them that love God; to them, who are called according to his purpose:

29 for, those whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be a firstborn among many brethren :

30 and those whom he so foreordained, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified.

31 What, then, shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who shall be against us?

32 He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also, with him, freely forgive us all things?

33 who shall impeach the chosen of God? shall God, who justifieth them?

34 who shall condemn them? shall Christ, who died (or rather, who is risen), who is even

at the right hand of God, who
even intercedeth for us?
35 who shall separate us from
the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus? shall tribulation,
or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril,
or sword?

36 As it is written, "For thy Ps. xliv. 22. "sake we are killed all the

day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter:"

37 yea, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him who loved us:

38 for I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life; nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers; nor things present, nor things to come;

39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and the promises;

5 whose are the fathers; and from whom, according to the flesh, the Christ was to come, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen!

6 But, it cannot be, that the word of God hath failed of effect;

7 all, therefore, are not Israel, who are from Israel; neither are they all children of Abraham, because they are his seed; Gen. xxi. 12. but, "In Isaac shall thy seed "be called:"

8 that is, That they who are the children only of his flesh, are not children of God; but Gal. iv. 24-31. the children of the promise only, are accounted his seed:

9 for, this was the word of Gen. xviii. 10. promise; "At this time I will "come, and Sarah shall have

c. vii. 9.

Ib. xxv. 23.

Mal. i. 2.

10 and not she only; but also, when Rebecca, the stranger, had conceived by our father Isaac: 11 (for, before the children were born, or had done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might stand; not by works, but by him who calleth ;)

12 it was said to her, "The "elder shall serve the younger:" 13 as it is written, " Jacob I "have loved, but Esau I have "hated."

14 What shall we say, then?

18 therefore, he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardeneth.

19 Wilt thou then say to me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will? 20 but, who art thou then, O man, that repliest against God? "Shall the thing formed say Is. xlv. 9. "to him that formed it, Why Jer. xviii. 6. "hast thou made me thus?"

21 hath not the potter authority over the clay, to make of the same lump, one vessel for honour, and another for dishonour?

22 But, what shall we say, if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make known his power, endured, with much longsuffering, the vessels of his wrath formed for destruction? 23 and also, that he might

make known the richness of his glory on the vessels of his mercy, which he had before prepared for glory; even us, whom he hath called, not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

24 (as he saith also to Hosea, "I will call them my people, "who were not my people; "and her beloved, who was "not beloved :

25 "and it shall come to pass, "that in the place where it "was said to them, Ye are not

my people; there they shall "be called, the children of the living God:"

26 Isaiah, also, crieth concerning Israel, "Though the num"ber of the children of Israel "be as the sand of the sea, a "remnant shall be saved;

27

"for, the Lord will finally, "and summarily, settle an ac"count with the land:"

28 and, as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of Sabaoth "had left us a seed, we should "have become as Sodom, and "have been made like to Go"morrha :)"

29 what, then, shall we say? but, That the Gentiles, who sought not for justification, have attained to justification, even the justification which is from faith;

30 but that Israel, who sought for a law of justification, hath not attained to that law:

BRETHREN, my heart's desire, and prayer to God for them is, that they may be saved:

2 for I bear them witness, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge:

3 for, being ignorant of God's justification, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted themselves to the justification of God:

4 for, Christ is the end of the law, for justification, to every one that believeth :

xxviii. 16.

"the deep?" that is, to bring up Christ to us again, from the dead:

Deut. xxx. 14. 8 but what saith it?" The "word is nigh thee, even in thy "mouth, and in thy heart,"

9 that is, the word of the faith which we preach; namely,

10 That if thou wilt confess with thy mouth the word, "That "Jesus is Lord;" and wilt believe in thine heart, "That God "hath raised him from the "dead," thou wilt be saved: 11 for, with the heart man believeth to justification; and with the mouth he maketh confession to salvation:

12 for the scripture saith, Is. xxviii. 16. "Whosoever believeth on him, "shall not be ashamed:"

c. iii. 22. Eph. ii. 14.

Joel, ii. 32.

s. lii. 7.

21.

20 but, I say again, Hath not Israel known it? yes, verily, for first, Moses saith, "I will Deut. xxxii. "rouse you to emulation, by "them that are no nation; I "will provoke you, by a nation "without understanding :" 21 but Isaiah speaketh still more boldly, and saith, " I was Is. lxv. 1, 2. "found by those who sought

me not; I was made mani"fest to those who asked not "for me:"

22 whereas, of Israel he saith, "All the day long I have "stretched out my hands to "a disobedient, and cavilling "people."

CHAPTER XI.

a preacher?

"thrust from him his "people?" God forbid! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

2 God hath not thrust from him his people whom he fore- c. viii. 29.