...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 came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death." Now that coming...

...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...

...came to himfelf, Luke, xv. 1 7. — Their finfulnefs alfo ; of this they are ignorant : Rom. vii. 9. " For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." As in a houfe, the motes flying thick there are not perceived till the fun-beams...

...i3. i4. If any appearance of del.. emnct, the labour is made the harder. Says Paul, Rom. vii. 9. " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." — It is hard labour, (3.) If ye confider the effeiSts this labour hath,...

...exceeding broad." Prov. vi. 23, " The commandment is a lamp, and the law is light." Rom. vii. 9, " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." And that this is meant by the commandment in our text, seems probable by what follows...

...them say with David, " I have seen an end of all perfection. "....Psalm cxix. 96. And with Paul, " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came sin revived, (it seems sin was fallen into a dead swoon, but the law revived it) and I died. "....Horn. vii. 9....

...the way of his conversion, are, in a sort, removed. Rom. vii. 8, 9... .For without the law, sin wets dead : For I was alive -without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, card I died : And then God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, shines in the heart,...

...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law, sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment which ivas ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin,...

...themselves, though before they trusted that they were righteous and despised others. Thus St. Paul " was alive without the law " once ; but when the commandment came, sin " revived, and he died." He had entertained very favourable thoughts of his own moral and religious character;...