...sio, except the law had condemned it as such;) for I was alive (thai is, not consciously condemned,) without the law once: but when the commandment came,...; and the commandment, which was ordained to life, (that is, which required the soul to be holy and therefore alive to God,) I found to be unto death....

...Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death," Eom. viii. 1, 2. " I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died," Rom. vii. 9. " What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending...

...that the hopes of mod men are in vain, and will never bring them to heaven. SERMON XXI. ROM. vii. p. For I was alive -without the law once: But when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died. Docl. 2.^ | ^HAT there is a mighty efficacy in the word or _§_ law of God,...

...which was ordained to life, (that is, which required tho soul to be holy and therefore alive to God,) I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, (or acts shown to be sin by the commandment,) deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is...

...without the law Jin was dead, for I was alive without the law Mice ' tut when the commandment fame, Jin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be ur.to death." Here we fee an eflential difference between the law and the gofpel, as fallen men are...

...already considered. The proper effect of it is the same in every believer as it was in St. Paul : " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." The person brought into this state will be put upon the inquiry, — How then can I come...

...is regeneration to a/real belief of the uncorrupted gospel of Christ. " I was," says the apostle, " alive without the law " once : but when the commandment came, sin revived "and I died." " I through the law am dead to the law,. " that I might live unto God !" " For by the...

...tremendous in its influence on the heart. It is described by St. Paul in Rom. vii. 9, 10, when he says, " I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment...which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death." Now that coming of the commandment with power upon the conscience, is what the mere theorist in Christianity...

...The account which the Apostle gives of his condition at a certain period is descriptive of theirs : " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Though formerly blind, they now see the absolute necessity of a new nature and complete...

...revived, and I died. 1O. And the commandment which was orctainedlo life, I found, to be unto death. 1 1 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 1 2 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which...