A

PRACTICAL EXPOSITION

OF

ST. PAUL'S

EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS:

IN A

SERIES OF LECTURES.

WITH AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING REMARKS ON CERTAIN LEADING TERMS, A
TABULAR ANALYSIS OF THE EPISTLE, &c.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS PARRY, M.A.

ARCHDEACON OF ANTIGUA,

IN THE DIOCESE OF BARBADOS AND THE LEEWARD ISLANDS; AND

LATE FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

"The best service we can render to our parishioners is to induce them to read
the Scriptures at home, and with attention. Now the way to induce them to read,
is to enable them to understand."-PALEY.

̓Αλγῶ δὲ καὶ ὀδυνῶμαι, ὅτι τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον (sc. τὸν μακάριον Παῦλον) οὐχ
ἅπαντες ἴσασιν, ὥσπερ εἰδέναι χρή

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̓Αλλ' (ὅπερ ἀεὶ λέγω) τὴν γνώμην ἐξετάζειν δεῖ μεθ ̓ ἧς λέγεται, καὶ τὴν ὑπό-
θεσιν περὶ ἧς λέγεται, καὶ τί σπουδάζων κατορθῶσαι λέγει.—ST. CHRYSOSTOM.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1832.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

TO THE REVEREND

THE CLERGY

OF THE

ARCHDEACONRY OF ANTIGUA,

THE FOLLOWING LECTURES

ARE,

WITH MUCH ESTEEM AND REGARD,

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY THEIR

VERY FAITHFUL FRIEND AND SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

THOUGH SO much that is valuable in different ways has been written on the Epistle to the Romans, the Author is not aware of any work precisely of the description of the present volume; unless it be the

Lectures," lately published by Dr. Ritchie of Edinburgh," on the doctrinal part of the Epistle." With this work the Author of the following confesses himself to be as yet unacquainted, not having seen its publication announced, until his own was nearly ready for the press. Had Dr. Ritchie professed to give a regular Exposition of the whole Epistle, (which is what has been attempted in the present volume,) the publication of these Lectures might have been omitted, or at least postponed until farther inquiry. But that not being the case, and the circumstances apparently being widely different, under which the two works have been composed, it is probable they will not be found to resemble each other in substance, though, to a certain extent, similar in their titles.

In the following pages, the intention is not to set aside the use of Commentators on Scripture, but to furnish an Exposition in a form more interesting to