...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...

...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,...

.../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...

...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...

...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,...

...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 his own Son in the...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...The account which the Apostle gives of his condition at a certain period is descriptive of theirs : " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Though formerly blind, they now see the absolute necessity of a new nature and complete...