This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...distinct, else confusion will arise. An instance in point is furnished us in the statement, " hence every Tbeliever who never had any locus standi in the old man." The old man, if Scripture terms are to be used in a Scriptural sense, is in us all, whether believers or not. It is our evil nature. We have not, nor could we, nor could any child of Adam, have a locus standi in the old man, nor be in the old man, for it is inside of us. Does Mr. Stoney mean by the old man the first man, Adam, head of the race? All, as born into the world, are under Adams headship; and till any one has received the gift of the Spirit, he is, what Scripture calls, in the flesh (Rom. viii. 9). But our standing before God, I would repeat, as Scripture uses the term, rests on the death and resurrection of Christ for us, and not on our having died with Him, and being risen with Him, true though this is of every Christian. I would just add that I adduced Heb. xii. 23, and Rev. iv., v., in proof of my statement (which to me is unaccountable that any one should dispute) that there is nothing higher in the universe than the throne of God, on which He alone must only and always sit. No. 7. "In p. 9 we have the statement, Our standing, then, before the throne is seen in Romans to be complete before one word is said of our being in Christ. Now this betrays the writers real view as to our standing. Is it in Adam or in Christ that we get our standing? In Adam, according to Mr. Stuart, for he says that our standing is complete before one word is said of our being in Christ. I have already endeavoured to point out that there is not in this theory the truth that the old man has been judicially terminated in the death of Christ, without which God could not put any one in...