...works of the Spirit of God to break up this state of mind ; and then the man can say, with Paul, " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Yet while he for ever shuts this door of hope, he opens another : he turns him from the...

...confounded and shattered state; and these, in the apostle's language, are said to be slain by the law. " I was alive without the law 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. For sin, taking...

...guilty before God." It is the law, which kills men as to trusting in their own righteousness. " For I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Galatians ii. 19. " For I through the law, am dead to the law." Conviction, which precedes...

...detain him captive in the regions of sin and death. What are his remarkable and striking words ? "I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." As if he had said, 'As long as I remained ignorant of that law which brought the knowledge...

...was not given to help us, but to assist sin. Without law, or apart from the law, sin is dead. "For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died" (v. 9). Surely the law does not help us; it helps sin. The law came to revive sin, to make...

...no good in himself; yea, he feels himself dead in sin; and upon this his heart dies within him. "I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." And by spiritual light, in evangelical humiliation, his undone state, in and of himself,...

...asked him his name. He said, "My name is the Law"; and I fell at his feet as one that was dead. "I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." As I lay there, he smote me. He smote me till every rib seemed as if it must break, and...

...Romans 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death? Romans 7:9-13 For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. (10) And the commandment which was unto life, this was found to me to be unto death. (11)...

...the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For 1 was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and 1 died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, 1 found to be unto death. For sin, taking...

...it exposed corruptions and sins in his heart which he had never supposed to be slumbering there. He was alive without the Law once, but when the Commandment came, sin revived and he died. His heart sunk within him as he saw his sad spiritual condition. In a word, Alonzo opened...