...sensible what his impotence really is, and wherein it consists. The apostle Paul says, Rom. vii. 8, 9. " Without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without...once : but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died." The former of these situations of the Apostle, is that of every sinner who cannot see...

...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...

...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...

...Pharisee, and while in an unconverted state, he was without the moral law. And he mentions this twice. " For without the law sin was dead; for I was alive without the law." And the Spirit confirms this still further, by asserting not only twice that he was without it, but...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...do. This is dying to the law; and a long lingering VOL. I. L death I had of it; as it is written, " For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came (that is, with its convincing power, and in its spiritual meaning), sin revived, and I died," Rom....

...that it works the more vigorously by it : " But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence ; for without the law sin was dead." " For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring...