| 1814 - 632 pàgines
...situations of the Jews under the law, and shewing the superiority of the gospel, (Rom. ix.) says, " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, *in revived, and I died :" ie felt myself subject to death, because I disobeyed the command. "Was then... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pàgines
...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...sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once." This exactly agrees with another description, which he gives of himself, while in the state of nature.... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pàgines
...wounded spirit who can bear ?" (Prov. xviii.' 14.) The Apostle compares it to the pangs of death : " For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin re* vived, and I died." (Rom. vii. 9.) — At first, perhaps, it is only some one particular sin, that... | |
| 1815 - 412 pàgines
...under genuine convictions; our author himself being judge. For having quoted the words of Paul, " / was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin re vived, and I died ;" he says, " All awakened and convinced sinners have the same view of themselves.... | |
| George Burder - 1817 - 320 pàgines
...apostates never knew. WATTS. SERMON III. THE NATURE, SPIRITUALITY, AND USE OF THE LAW. Rom. vii. 9.— For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, IT is a most true maxim of Scripture, that " The whole need not a physician ; but those... | |
| Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - 1817 - 306 pàgines
...This was once the case with the Apostle, which he confesses in language not to be misapprehended. " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." And in our unconverted state, it may be said of us all, "Ye have no life in you." We may... | |
| William Barlass, Peter Wilson - 1818 - 688 pàgines
...for mercy. Most emphatic is the apostle's account of his own history at conversion, Rom. vii. 9, " For I was alive without the law once ; .but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Without the sentence of death in ourselves, we will never apply to the Saviour. Unless... | |
| Samuel Phelps - 1818 - 634 pàgines
...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence; for, without the law, sin was dead. I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and 1 died. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death; for sin, taki... | |
| Ralph Cudworth - 1820 - 578 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1821 - 490 pàgines
...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... | |
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