...ITSELF THE NATURE OF SIN. The passage here alluded to is generally understood to be the following : " What shall we say then ? is the law sin ? God forbid....lust except the law had said, thou shalt not covet (q)-"-~-tc It is observable here." says Dr. Nicholls, " that the compilers of our Articles do not say,...

...long as he liveth ? I bad not known sin but by the law ; for I had not known lust, if the law had not said, thou shalt not covet; but sin taking occasion,...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...

...the seed should corne, to whom the promise was made,'' llora. v. 20, 21. Gal. iii. 19. Si. Paul says; "Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought...concupiscence ; for, without the law sin was dead. Was, then that which was good, made death unto me ? God forhid : But sin, that it might appearsin,...

...viii. 1. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curae for us. Gal. iii. 21. 5 I had not known sin but by the law : for I had not...lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Rom. vii. 7. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already...

...the heart, and which, by restraining them, makes them appear more sinful, and grow more outrageous. " But sin taking " occasion by the commandment, wrought...concupiscence : for without the law sin " was dead," although it be in us, yet it is not perceived, until it be held before the holy spiritual law of God,...

...-For such is the perverseness of sin, that restraint increases its rage. Thus the apostle observes, " Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in...concupiscence ; for without the law sin was dead." There are some who seem to rush on through forbidden wickedness, the rather because it is forbidden....

...of sin comes by that law, which forbids all irregular desires, and every unsanctified affection. ' I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.'f Hence it is plain to a demonstration, that all the deeds and duties of that law by which is...

...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...

...the Apostle uses the term, ' the law,' in this argument, is indubitably marked in Rom. vii. 7 : ' I K had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet : ' which, being a plain reference to the tenth command of the Decalogue, is ' the...

...One need only read the preceding part of the Verse, to be convinced that this is the true sense : " Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in...concupiscence : for without the law, sin was dead." — Compare also those expressions, (Ver. 5.) "The motions of sins, which were by the law ; and Ver....