...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 known 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...

...year." In like manner the apostle says, Romans vii. 7. " 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." These passages unite in the idea, that the great design of the dispensation of the Sinai law, was to...

...have discovered it to be that, which it is, sin, had it not been for the light of God's Law. VII. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought...all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin am* dead. Indeed the Law was given, for the forbiddancc and restraint of sin, and ought to have that...

...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,...

...sin, and that it is by the law's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not known 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...

...sin, and that it is by the law's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not known 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...

...forbidding sin, it only rouses and awakens it. I answer, (1) This was St. Paul's very case: Rom. vii. 8. Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. Now this effect is merely accidental, and is not to be imputed unto the holy Word of God, but to the...

...or of the Moral Law ? The Apostle will answer these inquiries : 7 had not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, 'Thou shalt not covet (a]. Of what law is the commandment, Thou shalt not covet, a precept ? The Apostle, by producing a...

...injustice, the existence «fit in the mind t« sin, because it could net 8 But sin taking occa«on by the : commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin «„ dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, , T ,. , sin revived,...