ON THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS. BY THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D. & LL.D., PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBERGH, WILLIAM COLLINS, SOUTH FREDERICK ST. LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO.-HAMILTON, ADAMS, & Co.- 1840. LECTURES ON THE ROMANS. LECTURE LI. ROMANS, viii, 10. "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.” I HAVE already affirmed, that to have Christ in us, is tantamount to the Spirit being in us. Christ dwells in us by the Holy Ghost. It is not because of this that the body is dead; but it is because of sin. The work of the Spirit in us does not counteract the temporal death of the body, however much it may counteract the second or eternal death to which the soul would have else been liable. It does not pour the elixir of immortality into the material frame-however much it may strengthen and prepare the imperishable spirit for its immortal well-being. Still, after Christ has taken up his abode within us and hath made a temple of our body, it is a temple that is to be destroyed. There remaineth a virus in the fabric, that sooner or later will work its dissolution; and as the law of temporal death is still unrepealed, even in the case of |