...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...a fotgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man (hall 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 fpiri* tual : but 1 am carnal, fold under...

...the hopes of moft mea are in vain, and will never bring them to heaven. SERMON XXI. RoM. vii. 9. For I -was alive -without the law once : But when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died. Doct. 2. rr^HAT there is a mighty efficacy in the word or J. law of God, to...

...the law. This the apoflle exemplifies, by reprefenting his own ftate, when under a law-work. ' For I was alive without the ' law once : but when the commandment came, fin re' vived, and I died ; and the commandment which, ' was ordained to life, I found tovbe unto death,'...