LECTURES

EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL.

EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL,

ON THE DOCTRINAL PART OF

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE

TO THE ROMANS.

BY DAVID RITCHIE, D.D.
F. R. S. E., ETC.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, AND PROFESSOR
OF LOGIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND

T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON.

NEILL & CO. PRINTERS, Old Fishmarket, Edinburgh.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

LECTURE XX.-ROMANS VII. 1-8.

KNow ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the

law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he

liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the

law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be

dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if,

while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she

shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is

free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be

married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are

become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be

married to another, even to him who is raised from the 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 bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are deli-

vered 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.

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,

except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking

occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of con-

cupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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LECTURE XXI.-ROMANS VII. 9-15..

For I was alive without the law once; but when the command-

ment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment,