...is regeneration to a real belief of the vmcorrupted gospel of Christ. " I was," says the apostle, " alive without the " law once : but, when the commandment came, " sin revived and I died." " I through the law am " dead to the law, that I might live unto God ! " " For by the...

...is stopped, though his heart rebels. Paul owns that he was subject to such genuine convictions. " 1 was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin I'cvivcd, and I died." And the publican had no excuse to make, when he cried, " God be merciful to...

...? 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 shall not covet. But...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...

...the heart, and strongly realized by the sinner. This fact is thus forcibly described by St. Paul : ' For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.' He was ' alive,' that is, in his own feelings, while he was ' without the law ;' or while...

...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, 21 I and I died. 10 And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For...

...Rom. v. 13. 20. Gal. iii. 19. I had not known sin but by the law, &c. without the law, sin was dead. I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, &c. That sin might appear sin, &c. and by the commandment might become exceeding sinful....

...particularly, the preceptive part of it, or his Law, but not without the Spirit of Truth. (John xvi. 8.) " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." (Rom. vii. 9.) Thus we are convinced of sin, of guilt, depravity, weakness, and misery,...

...Rom. v. 13. 20. Gal. iii. 19. I had not known sin but by the law, &c. without the law, sin was dead. I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, &c. That sin might appear sin, &c. and by the commandment might become exceeding sinful....

...20. " 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 ; " 1 where the moral law exclusively is meant, beyond all doubt : and he adds, " If righteousness...

...three thousand on the day of Penticost lost their hopes. And thus Paul tells us he lost his hopes. " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." All secure sinners are liable to lose their hopes in this way ; and they must lose their...