...so convinced as to become " poor in spirit.'' f By the law is the knowledge of sin." Rom. iii. 20. " I had not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the had said, thou shall not covet." " I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came,...

...your souls unto life eternal — ] i Wisd. v. 4. CCCLXXI. THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE LAW. Rom. vii. 7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not knorvn sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had sdid, Thou shall not covet....

...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...

...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,...

...St. Paul himself says, " The law worketh wrath : for where no law is, there is no transgression."* " What shall we say then, Is the law sin? God forbid....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...

...sin in his nature. The apostle tells us, that this cannot be learned without the la*, Rom. vii. 7. ' I had not known sin but by the law : for I had not...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet.' (2.) The law of nature is defective, because natural Judgement is thoroughly distorted and infatuated,...

...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 sin ? God forbid ! Nay, I had not known sin but by the law." Having in the following words insinuated, or rather more than insinuated, the inefficacy of the Jewish...

...misunderstood, of expressly objecting the idea of their being things of the same nature, Romans vii. 7. " What shall we say then, Is the law sin? God " forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the "law." And verse 13. " Was then that which is " good made death unto me ? God forbid. But " sin, that it might...

...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,...

...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....