...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...

...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...

...on the 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...

...by 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;...

...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....

...and bring in the whole world " guilty before " God." " Therefore by the works of the law, &c."± ' Indeed it does not appear, why ceremonial works exclusively,..." I " was alive without the law once, but when the com" mandment came, sin revived and Idied;"$ where the moral law exclusively is meant beyond all doubt:...

...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...

...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...

...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...