...conviction and condemnation, is conclusive. "What shall we say then T Is the law •in? God forbid ! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet; (that is, I should not have felt covetousness to be sio, except the law had condemned it as such;)...

...conviction and condemnation, is conelusive. "What shall we say then ? Is the law sin? Godforhid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet; (that is, I should not have felt covetousness to be sin, except the law had condemned it as such;)...

...condemns, it curses, it damns the soul. 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...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet ; Rom. vii. 7. The law and sin are as opposite as light and darkness, and Paul never would have thought...

...and not zVzthe oldness of the letter. 7 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...lust, except the law had said, Thou, shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...

...spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 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...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...

...there is a remembrance made of sins every year." In like manner the apostle says, Romans vii. 7. " Nay, I had not known sin but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." These passages unite in the idea, that the great design of the dispensation of the Sinai law, was to...

...obtained an affecting discovery of the depravity of his heart. " Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I * 3 X had not known sin but by the law: for I had not known...lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Rom. vii. 7. His volitions or acts of choice which he calls lust, did not appear sinful until he understood...

...adultery with her already in his heart." A lustful look, observe, is heart adultery. Hence said Paul, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." If we admit the truth of revelation, we shall find no method of evading this plain but awful conclusion,...

...is that by the law we have the knowledge of sin, and that it is by the law's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." There the apostle determines two things ; first, That the way in which " by the law is the knowledge...

...is that by the law we have the knowledge of sin, and that it is by the law's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." There the apostle determines two things ; first, That the way in which " by the law is the knowledge...