...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 flesh, God sending...

...which was ordained to life, (that is, which required tho soul to be holy and therefore alive to God,) I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, (or acts shown to be sin by the commandment,) deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is...

...without the law Jin was dead, for I was alive without the law Mice ' tut when the commandment fame, Jin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be ur.to death." Here we fee an eflential difference between the law and the gofpel, as fallen men are...

...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 then can I come...

...tremendous in its influence on the heart. It is described by St. Paul in Rom. vii. 9, 10, when he says, " I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment...which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death." Now that coming of the commandment with power upon the conscience, is what the mere theorist in Christianity...

...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 and complete...

...revived, and I died. 1O. And the commandment which was orctainedlo life, I found, to be unto death. 1 1 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 1 2 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which...

...exceeding broad." Prov. vi. 23, " The commandment is a lamp, and the law is light." Rom. vii. 9, " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." And that this is meant by the commandment in our text, seems probable by what follows in the next verses...

...them say with David, " I have seen an end of all perfection. "....Psalm cxix. 96. And with Paul, " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came sin revived, (it seems sin was fallen into a dead swoon, but the law revived it) and I died. "....Horn. vii. 9....

...his conversion, are, in a sort, removed. Rom. vii. 8, 9... .For without the law, sin wets dead : For I was alive -without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, card I died : And then God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, shines in the heart,...