...for the love of the spirit ;| that is, without doubt, for the love of their religion. Now, says he, we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve iff newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter; that is, that we should obey...

...nearly the same thing as being under sin. "When we were in the flesh," he says, "the motions of sin which were by the law, did work in our members to...law, that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness"of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Wherefore, ye also, my brethren...

...dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins which were by the law, did work in our members to...law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in the newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter '•'. And that, knowing...

...and the time past from the present. " When we were in the flesh," he observes, " the motions of sin which were by the law, did work in our members to...death ; but now we are delivered from the law, that we should serve in newness of spirit." Here are the two states : the state past was a state of corruption,...

...condition, he expressly makes it separate from that of being under the law, and consequently under sin. " But now 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 letter." — We are delivered:...

...heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men hut of God." Chap. vii. 6. " But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." 2. Cor. iii. 6. "Who also...

...righteous prohibitions of the law: " for when we were in the flesh, he says, the motions of sinfe, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death." (vii. 5.) And again, " Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, (viz. that particular commandment of...

...And, therefore, this is that that St. Paul said, " When we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death '." For these pleasures of the body draw us as loadstones draw iron, not for love, but for prey and...

...And, therefore, this is that that St. Paul said, " When we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death r." For these pleasures of the body draw us as loadstones draw iron, not for love, but for prey and...

...death":" which is the just parallel to what St. Paul says in this very chapter : " The passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto deathb : 'peccatumperpetratum,' when the desires are acted, then sin is deadly ; the iraQii/iara TUV...