...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....

...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...

...confounded and shattered state; and these, in the apostle's language, are said to be slain by the law. " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking...

...and will they not find themselves guilty before God, and be compelled to say, as the Apostle did, " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died ?" In the lamentable instances of this kind, which constantly occur, we see that what is...

...of one of the Christian Negroes form a simple and forcible illustration of the Apostle's words — I was alive, without the law, once; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, antf I died : — Yesterday morning,when you preach, you show we that the law be our schoolmaster to...

...of one of the Christian Negroes form a simple and forcible illustration of the Apostle's words — / was alive, without the Law, once; but, when the Commandment came, Sin revived, and I died:— Yesterday morning, when you preach, you shew we that the Law be our Schoolmaster to...

...records his own experience of its futility : ' I had not known sin,' he says, ' but by the law. . . For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.' And even its rewards were abstractions which, however beautiful and alluring in description...

...Sanctification is clearly enough implied : Vll. 9, 10. £yo> §£ ttfav )(w/oie VO/JLS iron, &C. " For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death." THE 2d objection,...