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<p class="tab-1">The apostle, having fully explained the doctrine of justification, and pressed the necessity of sanctification, in this chapter applies himself to the consolation of the Lords people. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,” so runs our commission, <a class="bibleref" title="Isa.40.1" href="/passage/?search=Isa.40.1">Isa. 40:1</a>. It is the will of God that his people should be a comforted people. And we have here such a draught of the gospel charter, such a display of the unspeakable privileges of true believers, as may furnish us with abundant matter for joy and peace in believing, that by all these immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation. Many of the people of God have, accordingly, found this chapter a well-spring of comfort to their souls, living and dying, and have sucked and been satisfied from these breasts of consolation, and with joy drawn water out of these wells of salvation. There are three things in this chapter: I. The particular instances of Christians privileges, <a class="bibleref" title="Rom.8.1-Rom.8.28" href="/passage/?search=Rom.8.1-Rom.8.28">Rom. 8:1-28</a>. II. The ground thereof laid in predestination, <a class="bibleref" title="Rom.8.29,Rom.8.30" href="/passage/?search=Rom.8.29,Rom.8.30"><span class="bibleref" title="Rom.8.29">Rom. 8:29</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Rom.8.30">30</span></a>. III. The apostles triumph herein, in the name of all the saints, <a class="bibleref" title="Rom.8.31-Rom.8.39" href="/passage/?search=Rom.8.31-Rom.8.39">Rom. 8:31-39</a>.</p>