...there shall no flesh be jusiified in his sight : for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Rom. vii. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law: for 1 hud not known lust, except the law had said, Thou slialt not covet. y Rom. iii. 9. What then! are...

...the poor, his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour. fg) Rom. 7. 7. What shall we say then > Is the law sin > God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law ; for J had not known lust, exeept the law had said, Thou shall not eovet. thing ought to be done in Israel...

...occasions to arise. " What shall " we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid, * Matthew, xxi. 43. N " Nay, I had not known sin but by the law : for " I...taking occasion " by the commandment, wrought in me all man" ner of concupiscence. For without the law sin " was dead."* All your carnal hopes and criminal...

...wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the olcinrss of the letter. 7 What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid....known sin but by the law; for I had not known lust, exeept the law had said, Thou shalt not eovet. 8 But sin, taking oeeasion by the eommandment, wrought...

...Ivive also told you in time past,that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of GOD. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? GOD forbid. Nay, I had not- known sin but by the law ; knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we sons of GOD, and it doth not yet appear...

...commit it. When we were in the flesh, says the apostle, the motions of sin were by the law, Rom. vii. 5. Sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in...of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead: but when the commandment came, sin revived, verse 8, 9. The law is the strength of sin, 1 Cor. xv....

...before he was awakened from his carnal ease and stupidity. "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Nay, I had not known sin but by the law: for I had...sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once." This exactly agrees with another description, which he gives of himself, while in the state of nature....

...members. Thus sin groweth bold, and kicketh at the law, becoming exceeding sinful, Romans vii. 8, :&. "But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought...concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was ujivc without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. Ver. 13. Was then...

...are many crimes which men would not have known to be sins, " I " had not known sin," says St. Paul, " but by the " law : for I had not known lust, except the law " had said, Thou shalt not covet." It is the law, then which by awakening and enlightening our conscience, teaches us that sin deserves...

...illustrates this sentiment, as well as establishes its truth, by reference to his own experience : " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Contrasting the purity and spirituality of the Divine law, with the corruptions which he found in himself,...