 | William Guthrie - Salvation - 1828 - 270 pages
...all the outward members. Thus sin grows bold, and spurneth at the law, becoming exceedingly sinful: " But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought...sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. Was then that which is good made death unto... | |
 | Universalism - 1828 - 396 pages
...17. Q. Foi what purpose was the law intended ? A. By the law is the knowledge of sin ; Rom. iii. 20. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law ; for I had...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet ; Rom. vii 7. Q. But did not God intend to prevent sin by ibis law ? ;* A. No: For by the deeds of... | |
 | Jacobus Arminius - Theology - 1828 - 778 pages
...first is proper, because it produces the knowledge of sin : On this subject the apostle speaks thus : " 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.) He also says, " By the law is the knowledge of sin." (iii, 20.) — Ibid. He afterwards... | |
 | Law - 1830 - 438 pages
...great may be his inclination, he cannot obtain a knowledge of the law ; and the apostle Paul says, • I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...except the law had said, " Thou shalt not covet." ' Filleron has indeed seen punishments, executions, and gens-d'armes ; but gens-d'armes are not the... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Holy Spirit - 1829 - 246 pages
...cept the Law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought ift me all manner of concupiscence. For without the Law...sin was dead. For I was alive without the Law once : but, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...except the law had said, "Thou forwouEve°us!'id' shalt not covet " But sin> taking occasion by the 8 commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence....without the law sin was dead. 'For I was alive without 9 the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment which... | |
 | John Witherspoon - Justification (Christian theology) - 1830 - 274 pages
...strongly and justly reasons, it renders our corrupt affections more inflamed and violent by restraint : " Nay, I had not known sin but by the law ; for I had...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet," &c. But let us now complete this argument, by showing that a believer in Christ is under the strongest... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theological anthropology - 1830 - 588 pages
...nor inclination to evil ; for that is sin, properly and truly so called ; hence the apostle says, " 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 rectitude... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1830 - 520 pages
...God, to the nature arid terms of the law. '• What shall we say ihen / IH tlie 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 shah not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 588 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 known lust, except the law had said, thou shall not covet." There the apostle determines two things ; first, That the way in which " by the law... | |
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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. 
