...I was alite wit Août the law once ; but vi/irii the commandment came, sin revived, and 1 diet/. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be until death. Obseive here, 1. The natural end and ;ise of the commandment or law of God, It vas ordained...

...what he says, chap. via. 3, and so may be looked on as an explication and proof of it TEXT. TEXT. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slow me. 12 Wherefore the law is holy ; and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that...

...that I wish to be good ! Here my sins began to disgorge themselves to my view. " Sin revived, and I died — and the commandment, which was ordained to...by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." And thus it was that sin...

...sin was dead. For 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." He then again introduced the objector as offering on the ground of that reply, the further intimation...

...very effectual method of preaching practical Antinomianism. the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death"." Thus the apostle states the natural conflict between the holiness of the law and the weakness of man....

...е\-ел the law of God itself. Rom. vii. 9— 11— "When the commandment came, sin revived and I died. For sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me." But in no sense is God tobe styled the cause of sin, although he saw fit to permit it, and did permit...

...corruption." Isai. xxxviii. 17, " And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour." Matt. xx. 9. "And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death." Rom. vii. 10. "So then faith cometh by hearing." Horn. x. 17. "For he is the minister of God, a revenger...

...— ' to make miserable or unhappy.' He quotes Rom. vii. 11, as an instance of this signification, (sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me ;) where instead of 'slew me,' he renders apekteinen me, 'became the cause of misery.' He next refers...

...the law once; but when the i James i. 25. » Heb. viii. 7-12. commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment which was ordained to life,...by the commandment, deceived me and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Was then that which is good,...

...law of a parent may be good, and may be appointed to promote the happiness of his children ; it 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12 Wherefore the law " is may be admirably fitted to it if all were obedient ; yet in the family there...