 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...not in the outward and fashionable knowledge of the Law, without any true change of the heart. VII. 7 What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for J had. not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet. What shall we say then ? If there... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1808 - 656 pages
...spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? By no means : nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known the guilt of desire, unless the law had 8 said, " Thou shalt not desire." But sin took occasion by... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 428 pages
...adultery with her already in his heart." A lustful look, observe, is heart adultery. Hence said Paul, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." If we admit the truth of revelation, we shall find no method of evading this plain but awful conclusion,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 520 pages
...by the law we have the knowledge of sin, and that it is by the law's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." There the apostle determines two things ; first, That the way in which " by the law is the knowledge... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 578 pages
...by the law we have the knowledge of sin, and that it is by the law's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." There the apostle determines two things ; first, That the way in which " by the law is the knowledge... | |
 | 1809 - 658 pages
...spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then ? /« the law sin ? By no means : nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known the guilt of desire, unless the law had S said, " Thou shalt not desire." But sin took occasion by... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1810 - 446 pages
...here descriptive of the Ceremonial or of the Moral Law ? The Apostle will answer these inquiries : 7 had not known sin but by the law : for I had not known...lust, except the law had said, 'Thou shalt not covet (a]. Of what law is the commandment, Thou shalt not covet, a precept ? The Apostle, by producing a... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 406 pages
...being dead wherein we were held;" in the very next verse he comes in with this healing question, " What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid ! Nay, I had not known sin but by the law." Having in the following words insinuated, or rather more than insinuated, the inefficacy of the Jewish... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit aiito death. Ver. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin tut by the law ; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou hhalt not covet. Ver. 8. But... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 544 pages
...Wisd. v. 4. CCCLXXI. THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE LAW: Bom. vii. 7. What shall we say then? Is the Icnv sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for Ifiadnot known lust, except the law had said, Thou shait not covet. THERE is not any thing, however... | |
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 
