...state ; and except I am changed, I must be lost. This was the effect of Christ's voice to Paul : " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Hom. 7 : 9. He had read the law many a time, and had the literal knowledge of it ; but...

...Rom.^.p. where the Apoftle fpeaks of the Race of Abraham as of One Man, and that in his own Perfon, thus: I was Alive without the Law Once ; but when the Commandment came, Sin reviv'd, and I dy'd, ie Before the Law of Mofes was given, which exprefly .denounces Death to the Tranfgreilbrs...

...the commandment, wrought in. .me all manner of concupifcence. For n without the law fin was dead. 9. For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died. 10. And the commandment ° which was ordained to p life, I found to be unto...

...well be difpleafed with himfelf, but he •will not be fo with the commandment, Rom. vii. 10, 1 1, 12. The commandment -which -was ordained unto life, I found to be unto death : but the law is holy, and. the commandment is holy, ju ft and good'. However it be with me, whatever...

...Concupifcence : For without the Law Sin was -dead. For I was alive without the Law once : But But, when the Commandment came, Sin revived, and I died. And the Commandment, which was ordained to Life, I found to he unto Death. For Sin, taking Occasion by the Commandment, deceived me, and by...

...make us feel ourfelves a dying. We might very well fay in St. P««/'s Words, Rom. vii. 9. We were alive without the Law once, but when the Commandment came. Sin revived, and we died. So long as we faw not ourfelves in the Glafs of the Word, which fheweth us all our Deformities,...

...reprefenting his own State, when under a LawWork.— For / was alive without the La<w-once, but when the Commandment came, Sin revived, and I died ; and the Commandment which was ordained to Life, I found, to bi unto Death, Verfes 9th, andioth. That is, I thought myfelf once alive, was...

...fucccflive ftatcs-of mind, which the apoftle Paul rcprcfehts in the emphatical words following : " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." 5. THO' repentance implies remorfe of eonfcience, and iljf-cc»ndemnation,...

...not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man Ihall be bleffed in his deed. Rom. vii. 9. For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died, v. 14. For we know that the law is fpiritual : but I am carnal, fold under...

...This is what the Apojlle defigns by the Revival of Sin upon the Entrance of the Law into the Soul. I 'was alive without the Law once ., but 'when the Commandment came, Sin revived, and I died *. Moreover, that fpiritual Light which is communicated in Regeneration, enables a Man to...