 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. — Sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. Rom. vii. 5, 8. When ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. Rom. vi. 20. 4 The... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - Sermons - 1821 - 392 pages
...them appear more sinful and grow more outrageous. " But sin took an occasion by the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence : for, without the law, sin is dead ;" although it be in us, yet it is not perceived, until it be held before the holy spiritual... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...Rom. viii. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the late 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. Rom. iii. 27. Where is boasting then ? It is excluded. By what law ? Of works ? Nay f but by the law... | |
 | Abraham Booth - Grace (Theology) - 1822 - 280 pages
...law, which forbids all irregular desires, and every unsanctified affection. ' I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.'f Hence it is plain to a demonstration, that all the deeds and duties of that law by which is... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...12—14. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? GoJ forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the taw : for I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good... | |
 | Arminianism - 1842 - 1128 pages
...term, ' the law,' in this argument, is indubitably marked in Rom. vii. 7 : ' I K had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet : ' which, being a plain reference to the tenth command of the Decalogue, is ' the... | |
 | Asa Cummings - Bible - 1822 - 48 pages
...as a creature ; but can he know his relations, as a sinner ? " By the law is the knowledge of sin ; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." The commandment is so " exceeding broad," as to bring under its condemning sentence the sinful desires... | |
 | Thomas Young - Bible - 1822 - 348 pages
...subsisted in us, notwithstanding the law." Taylor. But St. Paul interprets his own meaning, in Verse 8 : " Sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence :" From which it is plain, that " the motions of sins which were by the Law," (Ver. 5.) are those which... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 538 pages
...as that which is the effect of habitual sins or an estate of sins, of which the Apostle speaks : " Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence* ;" that is, so great a state of evil, such strong inclinations and desires to sin, that I grew as captive... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 530 pages
...aa that which is the effect of habitual sins or an estate of sins, of which the Apostle speaks : " Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscencei ;" that is, so great a state of evil, such strong inclinations and desires to sin, that... | |
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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. 
