...situations of the Jews under the law, and shewing the superiority of the gospel, (Rom. ix.) says, " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, *in revived, and I died :" ie felt myself subject to death, because I disobeyed the command. "Was then...

...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. But sin taking occasion by the commandment...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....

...wounded spirit who can bear ?" (Prov. xviii.' 14.) The Apostle compares it to the pangs of death : " For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin re* vived, and I died." (Rom. vii. 9.) — At first, perhaps, it is only some one particular sin, that...

...under genuine convictions; our author himself being judge. For having quoted the words of Paul, " / was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin re vived, and I died ;" he says, " All awakened and convinced sinners have the same view of themselves....

...apostates never knew. WATTS. SERMON III. THE NATURE, SPIRITUALITY, AND USE OF THE LAW. Rom. vii. 9.— For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, IT is a most true maxim of Scripture, that " The whole need not a physician ; but those...

...This was once the case with the Apostle, which he confesses in language not to be misapprehended. " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." And in our unconverted state, it may be said of us all, "Ye have no life in you." We may...

...for mercy. Most emphatic is the apostle's account of his own history at conversion, Rom. vii. 9, " For I was alive without the law once ; .but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Without the sentence of death in ourselves, we will never apply to the Saviour. Unless...

...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence; for, without the law, sin was dead. I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and 1 died. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death; for sin, taki...

...confounded and shattered state; and these, in the apostle's language, are said to be slain by the law. " 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, taking...

...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, and solemn confession...