...accordingly drew from us thosp effects, which did justly procure our eternal death. VII. 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein...held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. But now, we are delivered from that miserable servitude and Hard...

...condemn him. But is this sentence of the Law still in force against believers ? no, says the Apostle, we are delivered from the Law, that being dead wherein we were held : Rom. vii. 6. and, if the Law's power to condemn believers be dead, sin's power to condemn them, which...

...deceitful lusts.* Farther, Mr. B. thinks this sentiment supported by a passage in Rom. vii. 6. " But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein...were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, not in the oldness of the letter." (73.) But his sense of the passage, if it prove any thing for him,...

...faith ', -without the deeds of the law — that the law is not made for a righteous man — that now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held — that we are also become dead to the law by the body tf Christ — that <we are not under the law, but under...

...law" In the seventh chapter, when in the sixth verse he had advanced the boldassertion, " that now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;" in the very next verse he comes in with this healing question, " What shall we say then ? Is the law...

...easy. Love is " the obedience which he requires of us. " Love is the rule and measure of our duty. " We are delivered from the law, that being " dead wherein we were held!' Can such sentiments he justified Love is indeed the principle of Christian obedience. But the principle...

...mercy, and upon the Israel of God," Galat. vi. 15, 16. 5. My next reason is, I am informed that, " We are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein...held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter," Rom. vii. 6. And to send believers to the law for fresh supplies...

...but under grace." Will this yoke of the law make the believer's service more acceptable to God ? No. "We are 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 Better." Will this yoke of the law produce love and gratitude...

...until Christ came to us; but, after he is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster, but are redeemed 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, Rom. vii. 6. Yea, we are divorced from the law as...

...for help. This rule of life, as some term it, is still a killing letter; hence God declares that, " we are delivered from the law, that being dead, wherein we were held, that we should serve [him] in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter," Rom. yii. 6. If the law be a killing...