...chiefly confifts : and in this confifts his merit and righteoufnefs, in which the fays it was with him. " I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." Thus it is with every true chriftian. * ROM. vii. 12, SB. t PSAL. exit. 97,...

.../dPfclm cxix. 120. Myflefo trembleth for fear ofthee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. Rom. vii. 9. I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, fin revived, and i died, v. 43. Was th«n that which is goody made death unto me ? God forbid. But...

...of the law, or judge by the outiide of the Jaw, and not the inficie and fpirituality of it. Indeed, the application of the law, is one great caufe of...without the law once; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died," Rom. vii. 9. Sometimes perfons judge themielves by the falfe rules of the...

...commandment, deceived me, and by it flew me :" it flew him, and put an end to his felf-righteous life ; " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died," ver. 9. This is when the Spirit of God fhews to a man the fpirit of the law,...

...married unto it as a hufbanj, Gal. ii. i<;. " 1 through the law am dead to the law ;'' Rom. vii. 9. " I was alive without the law once, but •when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." Every man by nature fi.'s mounted upon the throne of an imaginary righteoufnefs,...

...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...

...general experience of believers, in whole perfons and names we muft here underftand him to fpeak ; " For I was alive without « the law once ; but when the commandment came, finjreviyed, M and I died." Wherein three particulars are yery^obfervable. Firft, The opinion Paul...

...have been 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...

...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,...

...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...