 | James Thomson (minister at Quarrelwood.) - 1808 - 592 sivua
...obtained an affecting discovery of the depravity of his heart. " Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I * 3 X had not known sin but by the law: for I had not known...lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Rom. vii. 7. His volitions or acts of choice which he calls lust, did not appear sinful until he understood... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 sivua
...the outward and fashionable knowledge of the Law, without any true change of the heart. VII. 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, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet. What shall we say then ? If there... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 520 sivua
...by the law we have the knowledge of sin, and that it is by the law's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." There the apostle determines two things ; first, That the way in which " by the law is the knowledge... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 578 sivua
...by the law we have the knowledge of sin, and that it is by the law's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." There the apostle determines two things ; first, That the way in which " by the law is the knowledge... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1810 - 446 sivua
...here descriptive of the Ceremonial or of the Moral Law ? The Apostle will answer these inquiries : 7 had not known sin but by the law : for I had not known...lust, except the law had said, 'Thou shalt not covet (a]. Of what law is the commandment, Thou shalt not covet, a precept ? The Apostle, by producing a... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 406 sivua
...being dead wherein we were held;" in the very next verse he comes in with this healing question, " What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid ! Nay, I had not known sin but by the law." Having in the following words insinuated, or rather more than insinuated, the inefficacy of the Jewish... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 sivua
...the knowledge of sin. Rom. vii. ^• What shall we say then ? Is tl* law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I tad not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not COVft. ' Rom. iii. 9. What then ? are Ke better than they ? No, in no wise : for we have... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1811 - 476 sivua
...inclination to evil ; for that is sin properly and truly so called ; hence the apostle says, Rom. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law, for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." An inclination to evil is really a fountain of sin, and therefore inconsistent with that i ectitude... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 462 sivua
...might become exceeding sinful ; for we know, that where there js no law there is no transgression ; fl I had not known sin but by the law, for I had not...lust except the law had said thou shalt not covet." It is the ministration of death and condemnation tp sinners. They that trust in Moses are accursed... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 506 sivua
...the knowledge of it, he comprehends it all in selfishness, or coveting, which is the same. He says, " I had not known sin, but by the law : For I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not COVET." He refers to the tenth command in the decalogue, " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, &c.... | |
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 
