 | John Wesley - 1811 - 450 pages
...in glory. SEMMQJV THE ORIGINAL, NATURE, PROPERTIES, AND USE OF THE LAW. ROMANS vn. 12. " Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." 1. PERHAPS there are few subjects within the whole compass of Religion, so little understood as this.... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1811 - 472 pages
...xxviii. 1. on his holy law, Psal. cxix. 97. Though it strike against his most beloved lust, he says, " The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good," Rom. vii. 12. He loves the ordinances of God, Psal.lxxxiv. 1. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...reveals against the immoral. The morality of it consists in its being holy, just, and good. "Wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good," Hom. vii. 12. Love is the real morality of all these three branches. First, Love is real holiness.... | |
 | Joshua Spalding - 1812 - 340 pages
...say then, Is the law sin? God " forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the "law." And verse 13. " Was then that which is " good made death unto me ?...sin, working death in " me by that which is good." In the view of this connection, the A^stle said, Rom. vi. 17. " God <c be thanked that ye were the... | |
 | 1812 - 292 pages
...by St. Paul in this 7th Chapter to the Romans, by two laws. In the 12th verse he says, " Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just and good." Verse 14, " For we know that the law is spiritual ; but I am carnal, sold under sin." Verse 1 G, "... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pages
...say to Judas, I remember the time, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. I then said, the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. And ever since that time, 1 have delighted in the law of God after the inward man; and I still delight... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...death. 1 1 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, "deceived me, and by it slew me. 12 Wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good. PARAPHRASE. 10 man; And that very law, which was given me for the attaining of life*, was found to... | |
 | 1813 - 502 pages
...abated. However imperfect their obedicnce may be, they can, in heart, unite with the apostle and say, " The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." They can elearly pereeive that, were all the creatures of God to yicld a perfect obedicnee to his Jaws,... | |
 | Assembly of divines larger catech - 1813 - 158 pages
...sin, transgresseth also the law ; for sin is the transgression of the law. Romans 7. 1C. Wherefore the law is holy : and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (e) Eph. 5. 6. Let no man'de. ceive you with vain words: for hecause of these things cometV the wrath... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandis ment, deceived me, and by it slew me. So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death to me ? God forbid : but sin, that it might appear sin, working... | |
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Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 
