...against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." , " For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin." How, say they, could stronger language than this be found to express the most abject slavery to moral...

...well adopt the language of the Apostle labouring under the pressure of the same painful conflict. " We know that the law is spiritual ; but I am carnal, sold under sin. O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" This is what causes the...

...adopted, he came to the fourteenth verse of the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, ' For toe know that the law is spiritual : But I am carnal ; sold under sin.'* He thought that the interpretation generally given to this passage, as if it applied to a man that...

...contrast it with the searching nature and spiritual demands of the moral law. " We know," says he, " that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin °." But, further, while the law is thus pure and spiritual, it admits of no compromise, it allows...

...(ver. 12 :) I no longer lay the blame on this, but on the corruption of my own heart. I acknowledge that " the law is spiritual : but I am carnal, sold under sin : " (ver. 14 :) I now see both the spiritual niiture of the law ; and my own carnal, devilish heart...

...' Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which was good made death unto me ? God forbid. But sin, that...by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.' Wherever the blame falls, the soul cannot but acquit the law, and confess that what it says, is righteous...

...dangerous, yea, pernicious to the soul; Rom. vii. 13. ' Was then that which is good,' that is, the law, 'made death unto me ? God forbid. But sin, that it...by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.' There are many things in this verse wherein we are not at present concerned; that which I only aim...

...that, then, which is good, made death unto me 1 God forbid. But sin [namely, was made death unto me] that it might appear sin, working death in me by that...by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. HERE we find the original discovery of all that sinfulness of sin, which we have hitherto insisted...

...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 made death unto me ? God...death in me by that which is good ; that sin by the 304 commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual ; but I am carnal,...

...that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and liis word is not in us. Rom. vii. 14, 17, 18, 23. For we know that the law is spiritual : but I am carnal, sold under sin. Now then, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know, that in me (that is,...