...under, when their guilt, danger, and mifery were brought to their view by the law. This the Apoftle exemplifies, by reprefenting his own ftate, when under a lawwork. — For I was ali-M -without the laiu once, but when the commandment came, fm revived, and I died ; and the commandment...

.../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 fin,...

...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, $...

...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 gofpel,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...came to himfelf, Luke, xv. 1 7. — Their finfulnefs alfo ; of this they are ignorant : Rom. vii. 9. " For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." As in a houfe, the motes flying thick there are not perceived till the fun-beams...

...i3. i4. If any appearance of del.. emnct, the labour is made the harder. Says Paul, Rom. vii. 9. " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." — It is hard labour, (3.) If ye confider the effeiSts this labour hath, i/?,...