...heart, and that we shall speak with new tongues, and walk in a new and living way, so as to serve him in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter; and that at the end of this service we shall inhabit a new heaven and a new earth, in which we shall...

...motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death : 6. But now we are delivered from the law, (that being dead wherein we were held), that we should serve iu newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 8. But sin taking occasion by the com*...

...establish the laze." In the serenth chap, when in ver. 6. he had advanced the bold assertion, " that now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ;" in the next verse he comes in with this healing question, " What »hall we say then ? Is the law...

...polity of the law, for we have received the very grace itself of the Spirit, as what follows proves, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. He here puts the spirit in opposition to letter, and the new against the old, that by the word letter...

...deceitful lusts.* Farther : Mr. B. thinks this sentiment supported by a passage in Rom. vii. 6. «' But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead...of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (p. 73.) But his sense of the passage, if it prove any thing for him, will prove too much. He maintains...

...Farther : Mr. B. thinks this sentiment supported by a passage in Rom. vii. 6. " But now we are»delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held...of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (p. 73.) But his sense of the passage, if it prove any thing for him, will prove too much. He maintains...

...breakirg forth in these which follow: "Now "we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, "and not in the oklncss of the letter. Foe in that Christ "died, lie died unto sin once; but in that he liveth, he...

...licence to sin, that the same St. Paul describes it as now the very way, the only way, to serve God "in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter" — that is, not as slaves, in fear and bondage, but as sons, with love and delight. 5. Once more :...

...licence to sin, that the same St. Paul describes it as now the very way, the only way, to serve God "in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter" — that is, not as slaves, in fear and bondage, but as sons, with love and delight. 5. Once more :...

...for the love of the spirit ;| that is, without doubt, for the love of their religion. Now, says he, we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve iff newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter; that is, that we should obey the doctrine...