...obedience. Accordingly the apostle Paul says, Te are become dead to the law by the body of Christ. Again — But now •we are delivered from the law, that being...newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. They were dead to it, so as no longer to seek to be justified by the deeds of it ; or to look upon...

...raised from the dead, that we should, upon our happy marriage with him, bring forth fruit unto God. VII. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,...work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. For which better fruit, we have both more occasion and better helps, than we formerly had ; for, while...

...iii. 10. Sin is a worse tyrant than he ; and takes advantage to exercise his cruelty, by the law : For, when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,...work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death ; Rom. vii. 5. Upon sin necessarily follows Misery, the forerunner of death ; and Death, the upshot...

...to the deceitful lusts.* Farther, Mr. B. thinks this sentiment supported by a passage in Rom. vii. 6. " But now we are delivered from the law, that being...were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, not in the oldness of the letter." (73.) But his sense of the passage, if it prove any thing for him,...

...the law q, and so made subje to 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...

...of sin, which were by the law [stirred up,] did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being...of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." It is the commanding power of the law to do for life ; that is the unbearable yoke. The damning power...

...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...of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter," Rom. vii. 6. And to send believers to the law for fresh supplies of the Spirit and his grace, to enable...

...entitled to the name of an outlaw, or an antinomian, for this? I suppose not. The parallel holds good; "For, when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,...work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. " Here is fruit brought unto death, but no fruit to the living God. The first husband, by his killing...

...same circumstance* and concern with them, be •being a jew, as well as those he spoke to. m « TEXT. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,...work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. PARAPHRASE. 5 should bring forth fruit unto God1. For when we were after so fleshly " a manner, under...

...thereof in them are sin ; as appears from what the apostle says, Rom. vii. 5, 7, 8. ' For when we arc in the flesh, the motions of sins which were by the...work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid; Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for...