...came sin revived, and all manner of concupiscence appeared. " By the law is the knowledge of sin." " For I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." The goodness of the law, its immutability, eternity, and unlimited demands, ought to be insisted on,...

...should say so. Nay, the law is an irreconcileable enemy to sin ; searching it out wherever it is. " I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust," evil desire to be sin, " except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet," ver. 7. After opening this...

...guilty in his own sight, and acknoivledged the justice of his condemnation: thus he says of himself; " 1 had not known sin but by the law; for I had not known lust (ie the evil and danger of it) unless the law had said, thou shall not -covet: for I was alive without...

...to the law of God. That is the glass wherein we may see our ugly face. Hence the apostle says, Rom. vii. 7. ' I had not known sin but by the law : for...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.' Look to it for what is past and present, in order to your being humbled in the sight of a holy God....

...evangelical rigiitcousneis. . TEXT. 7 What shall we say then ? is the law sin? God forhid. Nary, Iliad not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall nut covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all mariner of concupiscence....

...Commandments brought to his mind this strong sense of sin ? A. — The tenth Commandment. For he «ays, " I had not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had caid, " Thou shalt not covet." Rom. /. 7. Q. 5. — Does this Commandment tend to convince us of sin,...

...inclination to evil ; for that is sin, properly and <'ruly so called : hence the apostle says, Rom. vii. 7. " I " had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not known 1ust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." An inclination to evil iV really a fountain of...

...no law is, there is no transgression."* " What shall we say then, Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust (or concupiscence) except the law had said, Thou shall not covet.''f From these passages, among many...

...the law, he was ignorant of inward sin, or sinful affections. Hence, he says. "/ had not known tin but by the LAW; for I had not known lust, except the law had laid, Thou shall nut COVET." By these declarations of Paul, therefore, "/ teas alive without the law...

...you f Come they not hence. even of your lusts ? [selfish covetings, according to that explanation, " I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."'] — Ye lust and have not ; ye kill. you. And unto him that ..in it ct.li thee on the cheek, offer also...