The two ways to eternal life here brought into comparison are clearly and distinctly contrasted. The one is by doing—the other is by believing—The one by doing a full and finished righteousness for ourselves—the other by believing that Christ has done a full and sufficient righteousness for us; and makes each and all of us as welcome to its rewards as if they had been earned in our own person, by the merit of our own services. It is either in the one or the other of these ways that heaven is at all accessible—so that should we both fall short of the first, and refuse to enter upon the second, we are hopelessly and helplessly barred from the paradise of God.
Thomas Chalmers — Lecture LXXIX, on Romans 10:3-5 (comment on verse 5), in Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans (New York: Robert Carter, 1843), p. 397
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