...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 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,...

...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,...

...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;...

...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." From the united testimony of these inspired men, David and Paul, we learn that all, who...

...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." From the united testimony of these inspired men, David and Paul, we learn that all, who...

...sinful natures. St. * Job, xiii. 26, . Paul exemplifies this by his own case before conversion: " I was without the law once; but when the *' commandment came, sin revived, and I died*." He never was strictly without the law ; for he expected salvation by obeying it ; but he was without the...

...imagine you have derived from it, be assured all is delusory till you are able to say with the Apostle, " I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died./ 4. SINNERS while under the law are in a most critical and dangerous condition. They are...