QUES. 1.-"So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin " (Rom. 7 :25).

Is this the state of the believer after deliverance, or is he delivered from this state?

ANS.-It is the summing up of the experience he has detailed throughout the chapter; that is, the experience of a still undelivered man. The deliverance follows in the eighth chapter. The statement at the beginning of the verse, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord," may at first give the thought that the part you quote must needs express deliverance, but it is merely an answer to the question preceding, " Who shall deliver me?" Of course the answer is, "Christ"; but how does Christ effect this we learn in the sixth and the eighth chapters.

QUES. 2.-What is the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, in Titus 3:5?

ANS.-It is the inward and outward moral cleansing which takes place in every subject of the grace of God-a new state, in contrast with that of verse 3. It is not the work of Christ for us, here, but the work of the Holy Spirit in us. He imparts eternal life ; fills the heart with new objects; imparts new motives, new and holy desires, and power for new ways. Besides, unceasingly dwelling in us, He daily renews and sustains the energies of this new though yet imperfect condition until we reach the perfection of the eternal state.