...and will they not find themselves guilty before God, and be compelled to say, as the Apostle did, " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died ?" In the lamentable instances of this kind, which constantly occur, we see...

...heart, and the real character of his life." In confirmation of Ihis belief, you quote Romans vii. 9. " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died." From this passage you draw this sweeping inference, "we have the plain, explicit,...

...Sanctification is clearly enough implied : Vll. 9, 10. £yo> §£ ttfav )(w/oie VO/JLS iron, &C. " For 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."...

...of one of the Christian Negroes form a simple and forcible illustration of the Apostle's words — I was alive, without the law, once; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, antf I died : — Yesterday morning,when you preach, you show we that the law be our schoolmaster...

...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. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death....

...sin but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet. 9 For I was alive without the law, once: but when the commandment came., sin revived, and I died. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of...

...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. PARAPH R ASK. 7 every tittle s. What shall we then think that the law, becanse...

...20. " through the law, am dead to the law :" which accords to his language elsewhere, when he says, " I was alive without the law once, but when the " commandment came, sin revived and I died ; " 1 where the moral law exclusively is meant, beyond all doubt : and he adds,...

...heart, and strongly realized by the sinner. This fact is thus forcibly described by St. Paul : ' For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.' He was ' alive,' that is, in his own feelings, while he was ' without the...

...three thousand on the day of Penticost lost their hopes. And thus Paul tells us he lost his hopes. " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." All secure sinners are liable to lose their hopes in this way ; and they...