...heart, and the real character of his life." In confirmation of Ihis belief, you quote Romans vii. 9. " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died." From this passage you draw this sweeping inference, "we have the plain, explicit, and solemn confession...

...and will they not find themselves guilty before God, and be compelled to say, as the Apostle did, " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died ?" In the lamentable instances of this kind, which constantly occur, we see that what is...

...records his own experience of its futility : ' I had not known sin,' he says, ' but by the law. . . For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.' And even its rewards were abstractions which, however beautiful and alluring in description...

...of one of the Christian Negroes form a simple and forcible illustration of the Apostle's words — I was alive, without the law, once; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, antf I died : — Yesterday morning,when you preach, you show we that the law be our schoolmaster to...

...of one of the Christian Negroes form a simple and forcible illustration of the Apostle's words — / was alive, without the Law, once; but, when the Commandment came, Sin revived, and I died:— Yesterday morning, when you preach, you shew we that the Law be our Schoolmaster to...

...destitute of the more effectual succours of Divine grace under the Gospel. This appears even from Ver. 9. " For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sir. revived, and I died :" words, which a very little consideration will shew to be spoken of the...

...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. But sin taking occasion by the commandment,...once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 1 John 3.4....

...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law, once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. PARAPH R ASK. 7 every tittle s. What shall we then think that the law, becanse it is set...

...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law, once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. PARAPHRASE. 7 every tittle s. What shall we then think that the law, because it is set...

...is stopped, though his heart rebels. Paul owns that he was subject to euch genuine convictions.. "1 was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and 1 died." And the publican had no excuse to make, when he cried, "God be merciful to me a sinner."...