The New Life

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XXVI.
THE LIFE OF FAITH.
" The righteous shall live by his faith." Hab. ii. 4.
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We have been discharged from the law, so that we serve in
newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.' '
Rom. vii. 6.
" I live ; and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me ; and
that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith
which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself up
for me." Gal. ii. 20.
THE
word from Habakkuk is thrice quoted in the
New Testament as the Divine representation of
salvation in Christ by faith alone.^
But that word is
oftentimes very imperfectly understood, as if it ran
Man shall, on his conversion, be justified by faith.
The word includes this, but signifies much more. It
says that the righteous shall live by faith : the whole
life of the righteous, from moment to moment, shall
be by faith. ''
We all know how sharp is the opposition which
God in His word presents betwixt the grace that
comes by faith and the law that works—demands.
This is generally admitted with reference to
justification. But that distinction holds just as
much of the whole life of sanctification. The right-
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>Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11 ; Heb
>Rom. V. 17, 21, vi. II, viii. 2 ; Gal. ii. 20 ; i John v. 11, 12.
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