| Jonathan Dickinson - 1772 - 326 pages
...view by 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,'... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1777 - 528 pages
...it. Indaed, the application of the law, is one great caufe of felf-conceit : fo it was with Paul ; I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fm revived, and I died, Rom. vii. 9. — Sometimes perfons judge themfelves by the falfe rules of the... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Religious poetry - 1793 - 384 pages
.../dPfclm cxix. 120. Myflefo trembleth for fear ofthee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. Rom. vii. 9. I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, fin revived, and i died, v. 43. Was th«n that which is goody made death unto me ? God forbid. But... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - Regeneration (Theology) - 1793 - 136 pages
...chiefly confifts : and in this confifts his merit and righteoufnefs, in which the fays it was with him. " I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." Thus it is with every true chriftian. * ROM. vii. 12, SB. t PSAL. exit. 97,... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1794 - 540 pages
...it. Indeed, the application of the law, is one great caufe of felf-conceit: fo it was with Paul ; " I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died," Rom. vii. 9. Sometimes perfons judge themielves by the falfe rules of the... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 738 pages
...taking occalion by the commandment, wrought in me a'l manner of cnacupifcence. For without the law iin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandYnent came, fin revived, and I died. Verfe 11. For fin taking occalion b/ the commandment, deceived... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine - Sermons - 1798 - 614 pages
...married unto it as a hufbanj, Gal. ii. i<;. " 1 through the law am dead to the law ;'' Rom. vii. 9. " I was alive without the law once, but •when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." Every man by nature fi.'s mounted upon the throne of an imaginary righteoufnefs,... | |
| George Redford - Conversion - 1843 - 188 pages
...Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death," Eom. viii. 1, 2. " I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died," Rom. vii. 9. " What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...that the hopes of mod men are in vain, and will never bring them to heaven. SERMON XXI. ROM. vii. p. For I was alive -without the law once: But when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died. Docl. 2.^ | ^HAT there is a mighty efficacy in the word or _§_ law of God,... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...already considered. The proper effect of it is the same in every believer as it was in St. Paul : " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." The person brought into this state will be put upon the inquiry, — How then can I come... | |
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