 | Samuel Austin - Church - 1807 - 344 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Thomson (minister at Quarrelwood.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 520 pages
...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 I had not...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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...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 I had not...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... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - Christian ethics - 1810 - 446 pages
...here descriptive of the Ceremonial 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... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...the knowledge of sin. Rom. vii. ^• What shall we say then ? Is tl* law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I tad not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not COVft. ' Rom. iii. 9. What then ? are Ke better than they ? No, in no wise : for we have... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 476 pages
...inclination to evil ; for that is sin properly and truly so called ; hence the apostle says, 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." An inclination to evil is really a fountain of sin, and therefore inconsistent with that i ectitude... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...the knowledge of it, he comprehends it all in selfishness, or coveting, which is the same. He says, " I had not known sin, but by the law : For I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not COVET." He refers to the tenth command in the decalogue, " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, &c.... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 462 pages
...might become exceeding sinful ; for we know, that where there js no law there is no transgression ; fl I had not known sin but by the law, for I had not...lust except the law had said thou shalt not covet." It is the ministration of death and condemnation tp sinners. They that trust in Moses are accursed... | |
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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. 
