...and concern, that they were under the sentence of death. T. his appears from Rom. vii. 9, "• I wa . alive without the law once ; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died," Gal. ii. 19. 20. "I through the law am dead to the law, that 1 might live unio God. I...

...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...acquainted with the divine law, to be slain by it, and yct brought to love it, as holy, just, and good ; so as to receive it cordially as a rule of lite!...

...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;"3 where the moral law exclusively is meant beyond all doubt : and he adds, t' If " righteousness...

...law, the terrors of the law awake the slumbering enmity and unsuspected corruptions of the heart: " I was alive without the law once; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Our ghostly enemy also is sure to be busy with such a case : he can never hold possession...

...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...

...and wherein it consists. The apostle Paul says, Rom. vii. 8, 9. " Without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died." The former of these situations of the Apostle, is that of every sinner who cannot see...

...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...

...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...

...not known lust (ie the evil and danger of it) unless the law had said, thou shall not -covet: for I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died." The plain meaning of which is this; before he understood the spirituality of the law he...

...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,...