...the law" In the seventh chapter, when in the sixth verse he had advanced the boldassertion, " that now we are delivered from the law, that 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...

...death ', with all miseries spiritual ", temporal ', a eternal ". CH* in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit aiito death. Ver. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin...

...easy. Love is " the obedience which he requires of us. " Love is the rule and measure of our duty. " We are delivered from the law, that being " dead wherein we were held!' Can such sentiments he justified Love is indeed the principle of Christian obedience. But the principle...

...service of God; " For when we were in the flesh the motions of sin, which were by the law [stirred up,] did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto...law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." It is the commanding power...

...only a being made free, but a deliverance also from the law, and that for God's glory and our good : " But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." Men can make no more of the...

...that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing." " For when we were in the fie»h, the motions of sin which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death." Gen. v. 3. " Adam begat a son in his own likeness, after his image." Job xiv. 4. " Who can bring a...

...but that we should be made fruitful by grace : " For, when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death ;" therefore a deliverance from the law was needful. How shall the believer, who is dead to sin, live...

...mercy, and upon the Israel of God," Galat. vi. 15, 16. 5. My next reason is, I am informed that, " We are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter," Rom. vii. 6. And to send...

...and real, by the Apostles ; as appears from these words of St. Paul : — But nozv we. are. delevered from the Law, that being DEAD wherein we were, held, that we should servein NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, and not in the OLDNESS OF THE LETTER*. We see here, the Apostle gives...

...until Christ came to us; but, after he is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster, but are redeemed from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, Rom. vii. 6. Yea, we are...