 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1829 - 276 pages
...raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. — Now we are delivered from thelaw, (that being dead wherein we were held,) that we should...newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. — There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...to bring forth fruit unto death : but now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein 6 we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Though we cannot WHAT shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God for- 7 eipecuo be justified bid. Nay,... | |
 | William Shewen - Society of Friends - 1830 - 154 pages
...the motions of sin, which were by the law, 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." Here the true Christian knows the righteousness of the law fulfilled in him, who walketh not after... | |
 | Edward Fisher - Antinomianism - 1830 - 432 pages
...is made void, and the promise made of none effect, because the law vrorketh wrath." Chap. 7: 5,6. " For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,...work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law — that we should serve in newness of spirit," &c. Chap. 8:... | |
 | S. Lee - Apologetics - 1830 - 510 pages
...to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when," he adds, "we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which...work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. But noio we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1832 - 460 pages
...ground of hope, he really purposes to obey it in his life. " We are delivered from the law," says Paul, "that being dead wherein we were held; that we should...of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." — Rom. vii. 6. So long as the sinner contemplates the law as a ground of hope, he hates it, for he... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 574 pages
...brought under grace, tends to win men to serve God from love, and with the whole heart ; Uom. vii. 6, " But now we are delivered from the law, that being...wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. [84] Rom. viii. 15. " For ye have not received the... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - Sermons, English - 1830 - 518 pages
...become dead to the law, by the body of Christ;"—"we are delivered from the law, being dead to that wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter ;" ie that we should serve God henceforth, not according to the formal requisitions of a written rule,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 574 pages
...grace, tends to win men to serve God from love, and with the whole heart; Rom. vii. 6, " But now we arc delivered 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. [84] Rom. viii. 15. " For ye have not received the... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 pages
...and takes advantage to exercise its cruelty by the law ; " For when we were in the flesh, the motion of sins, which were by the law, did 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 of... | |
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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. 
