...against the man who is God's fellow ! Paul saith in his epistle to the Romans vii. 9, 10, 11. "For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived and / died." And the commandment " which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin taking...

...lust, except the law had laid, Thou shall nut COVET." By these declarations of Paul, therefore, "/ teas alive without the law once; but -when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died," we may understand him as intending to convey the following sentiments. "Once, that is,...

...the Divine, displeasure, and am justly liable to the divine punishment. In this sense I may say, " I was alive without the law once, " but when the commandment came, " sin revived and I died," Injustice then, in strict impartial justice, I must confess, though my confession cost...

...forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. Rom. vii. 9. For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. Ver. 14. For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. Ver. 24....

...self-deception, and false-confidence, who can experimentally say, with that eminent servant of Christ, " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died " But the experience of Christ's ministers does not end here. The Spirit of God has taken...

...the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin i,evived, and I died." While Paul was under the strivings of the Spirit, he not only saw his past sinfulness;...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...