 | Thomas Scott - 1801 - 138 pages
...is regeneration to a/real belief of the uncorrupted gospel of Christ. " I was," says the apostle, " alive without the law " once : but when the commandment came, sin revived "and I died." " I through the law am dead to the law,. " that I might live unto God !" " For by the... | |
 | 1842
...tremendous in its influence on the heart. It is described by St. Paul in Rom. vii. 9, 10, when he says, " I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death." Now that coming... | |
 | Samuel Wright - Lord's Supper - 1802 - 236 pages
...The account which the Apostle gives of his condition at a certain period is descriptive of theirs : " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Though formerly blind, they now see the absolute necessity of a new nature and complete... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 436 pages
...came to himfelf, Luke, xv. 1 7. — Their finfulnefs alfo ; of this they are ignorant : Rom. vii. 9. " For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." As in a houfe, the motes flying thick there are not perceived till the fun-beams... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 pages
...i3. i4. If any appearance of del.. emnct, the labour is made the harder. Says Paul, Rom. vii. 9. " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died." — It is hard labour, (3.) If ye confider the effeiSts this labour hath,... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...exceeding broad." Prov. vi. 23, " The commandment is a lamp, and the law is light." Rom. vii. 9, " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." And that this is meant by the commandment in our text, seems probable by what follows... | |
 | William Mason - Calendars - 1803 - 402 pages
...them say with David, " I have seen an end of all perfection. "....Psalm cxix. 96. And with Paul, " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came sin revived, (it seems sin was fallen into a dead swoon, but the law revived it) and I died. "....Horn. vii. 9.... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - Christian life - 1804 - 454 pages
...the way of his conversion, are, in a sort, removed. Rom. vii. 8, 9... .For without the law, sin wets dead : For I was alive -without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, card I died : And then God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, shines in the heart,... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law, sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment which ivas ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1805 - 566 pages
...themselves, though before they trusted that they were righteous and despised others. Thus St. Paul " was alive without the law " once ; but when the commandment came, sin " revived, and he died." He had entertained very favourable thoughts of his own moral and religious character;... | |
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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 
