...shall we say then T Is the law •in? God forbid ! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet; (that is, I should not have felt covetousness to be sio, except the law had condemned it as such;)...

..."What shall we say then ? Is the law sin? Godforhid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet; (that is, I should not have felt covetousness to be sin, except the law had condemned it as such;)...

...What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid : nay, I had not known sin but by the law ; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet ; Rom. vii. 7. The law and sin are as opposite as light and darkness, and Paul never would have thought...

...What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou, shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...

...What shall we say then ? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...

...year." In like manner the apostle says, Romans vii. 7. " Nay, I had not known sin but by the law ; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." These passages unite in the idea, that the great design of the dispensation of the Sinai law, was to...

...adultery with her already in his heart." A lustful look, observe, is heart adultery. Hence said Paul, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." If we admit the truth of revelation, we shall find no method of evading this plain but awful conclusion,...

...depravity of his heart. " Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I * 3 X had not known sin but by the law: for I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Rom. vii. 7. His volitions or acts of choice which he calls lust, did not appear sinful until he understood...

...determines that it is the moral law by which we come to the knowledge of sin ; " for," says he, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." Now it is the moral, and not the ceremonial law, that says, thou shalt not covet : Therefore, when...

...determines that it is the moral law by which we come to the knowledge of sin ; " for," says he, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." Now it is the moral, and not the ceremonial law, that says, thou shalt not covet : Therefore, when...