...enmity, and gave occasion to all manner of lasciviousness, to discover its cursed enmity against God. " I was alive without the law once ; but, when the commandment...which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence; for without...

...with the power of God, my inbred sin was stirred up, fretted, inflamed, and all my virtue died away. " And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I...the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me," ver. 10, 11. It came upon me unawares, slew all my hopes ; and plainly shewed, that in the midst of...

...way of his conversion, are, in a sort, removed. Rom. vii. 8, 9. For without the law, sin was dead: For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And then God, who commanded the /ight to shine out of darkntss, shines in the heart, and gives the light...

...a pharisee of the first magnitude, a Pharisee of the Pharisees. " For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Here the Holy Ghost affirms that during the tima of Paul's continuing a Pharisee, and...

...I had not known lust (ie the evil and danger of it) unless the law had said, thou shall not -covet: for I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died." The plain meaning of which is this; before he understood the spirituality of the law he...

...had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet : For without the law sin was dead. I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."f Though the Redeemer had not actually performed and gone through what he had undertaken...

...through the law, am *' dead to the law :" which accords to his language elsewhere, when he says, " I was alive without the " law once, but when the commandment came, sin " revived and I died;"3 where the moral law exclusively is meant beyond all doubt : and he adds, t' If " righteousness...

...that he is dead in sin, is ignorance of the true nature of the law. Without the law, sin was dead. I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. What greater change therefore, can happen, than to be brought acquainted with the divine...

...known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the had said, thou shall not covet." " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." This is preparatory to the commencement of the life of faith. We must be slain by the...

...reason for the Holy God to pass a final sentence on the rebellious sinner. This holy Paul confesses: " I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died," Rom. vii. 9. And likewise enlightened reason sees that God can now be just, and yet the...