 | John Taylor - Sin, Original - 1750 - 528 pages
...thejlefh, and having no Relief but from the Law, ver. 5. For when we were in the flefh, the motions of Jin, "which •were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. And upon this Proportion he difcourfeth to the End of the Chapter. The other Propofition he layeth down,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1755 - 318 pages
...free from the Covenant of Works : Rom.vu. 5. 6. ' For when we were in the flefhj the ' motions 6f fins which were by the law, did work ' in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. * But now we are delivered from the law, that being ' dead wherein we were held •. that we mould... | |
 | Edward Fisher - Antinomianism - 1766 - 524 pages
...becaufe the law workctli wrath. 'chap. ii. 5, 6. ' For when we were in the flefh, the motions of fins which were by the law, did work in our members^ to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the lavy—that we (hould 1'erve in ncwneis of fpirit, Jyc." Chap. viii.... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...that doth good and finneth not, : tu Rom. vii. j. For when we were in the fl'Hh, the motions of fin which •were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death, v, 7. What (hall we fay then? Is the law (in? God forbid. Nay, 1 had not known fin but by the law :... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 518 pages
...others are vain and ineffectual : " When we were in the fleth, " (faith the apofile) the motions of fin which were by the law, " did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death," Rom. vii. 5. fin was then in its full dominion, no abftinence, rigour, or outward fcverity ; no purpofes,... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Church of Scotland - Church of Scotland - 1773 - 570 pages
...that doth good, and finneth not. m Rom. vii. 5. For when we were in the flefh, the motions of (ins which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death, v. 7. What fliall we fay then ? Is the law fin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law... | |
 | William Huntington - Arminianism - 1788 - 488 pages
...enable us to do, becaufe it could not give life : For, when we were in thefieJh, the motions of fin, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death, Rom. vii. 5. The apoftlc tells us that we are dead to the law, loofed from the law, and delivered from... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Religious poetry - 1793 - 384 pages
...dead; that we fhoald bring forth fruit vmtoGod. For when we were in the flefli, the motions of fin which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we fhould ferve... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 738 pages
...brinr; forth fruit unto G«xl. For when we were in the flcfh, the motions of fins which were by ths law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But nnw we are delivered from the law, th»t being dead wherein we were held ; (hat we fliould fcrve... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...arc vain and • ineffectual : " When we were in the flefli, (faith the apoftle) the " motions of fin which were by the law did work in our members, " to bring forth fruit unto death," Rom. vii. 5. fin was then in its full dominion, no abftinence, rigour, or outward feverity ; no purpofes,... | |
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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 
