...reason for the Holy God to pass a final sentence on the rebellious sinner. This holy Paul confesses: " I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died," Rom. vii. 9. And likewise enlightened reason sees that God can now be just, and yet the...

...pharisee of the first magnitude, a Pharisee of the Pharisees. " 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." Here the Holy Ghost affirms that during the tima of Paul's continuing a Pharisee, and...

...known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the had said, thou shall not covet." " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." This is preparatory to the commencement of the life of faith. We must be slain by the...

...that he is dead in sin, is ignorance of the true nature of the law. Without the law, sin was dead. I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. What greater change therefore, can happen, than to be brought acquainted with the divine...

...had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet : For without the law sin was dead. I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."f Though the Redeemer had not actually performed and gone through what he had undertaken...

...that he is dead in sin, is ignorance of the true nature of the law. Without the law, sin was dead. J was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died What greater change therefore, can happen, than to be brought acquainted with the divine...

...This is dying to the law; and a long lingering VOL. I. L death I had of it; as it is written, " For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came (that is, with its convincing power, and in its spiritual meaning), sin revived, and I died," Rom....

...and that, upon our natural ground, we are irrecoverably lost. Hence, says the apostle, Rom. vii, " 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,...

...against the man who is God's fellow ! Paul saith in his epistle to the Romans vii. 9, 10, 11. "For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived and / died." And the commandment " which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin taking...

...of his Epistle to the Romans, discoursing on the nature of the Divine law, he frankly confesses, "/ was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." If he were a pious man previous to his conversion, what did he mean by these declarations?...