 | Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1777 - 528 pages
...it. Indaed, the application of the law, is one great caufe of felf-conceit : fo it was with Paul ; I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fm revived, and I died, Rom. vii. 9. — Sometimes perfons judge themfelves by the falfe rules of the... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Religious poetry - 1793 - 384 pages
.../dPfclm cxix. 120. Myflefo trembleth for fear ofthee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. Rom. vii. 9. I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, fin revived, and i died, v. 43. Was th«n that which is goody made death unto me ? God forbid. But... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Regeneration (Theology) - 1793 - 136 pages
...chiefly confifts : and in this confifts his merit and righteoufnefs, in which the fays it was with him. " I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." Thus it is with every true chriftian. * ROM. vii. 12, SB. t PSAL. exit. 97,... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1794 - 540 pages
...it. Indeed, the application of the law, is one great caufe of felf-conceit: fo it was with Paul ; " I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died," Rom. vii. 9. Sometimes perfons judge themielves by the falfe rules of the... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - Sermons - 1798 - 614 pages
...married unto it as a hufbanj, Gal. ii. i<;. " 1 through the law am dead to the law ;'' Rom. vii. 9. " I was alive without the law once, but •when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." Every man by nature fi.'s mounted upon the throne of an imaginary righteoufnefs,... | |
 | George Redford - Conversion - 1843 - 188 pages
...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... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...general experience of believers, in whole perfons and names we muft here underftand him to fpeak ; " For I was alive without « the law once ; but when the commandment came, finjreviyed, M and I died." Wherein three particulars are yery^obfervable. Firft, The opinion Paul... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1801 - 138 pages
...is regeneration to a/real belief of the uncorrupted 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... | |
 | 1842
...which is most 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 came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death." Now that coming... | |
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For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 
