Vers. 17, 18. _False Methods of Salvation_--

+I. To seek justification in any other way than through

Christ.+--"If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we

ourselves are found sinners" (ver. 17).

+II. Reflect unjustly on the character of the only Saviour.+--"Is

therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid" (ver. 17).

+III. Aggravate our sin by restoring in practice what we have

abandoned in theory.+--"For if I build again the things which

I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor" (ver. 18).