 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Church of Scotland - 1773 - 570 pages
...that doth good, and finneth not. m Rom. vii. 5. For when we were in the flefh, the motions of (ins which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death, v. 7. What fliall we fay then ? Is the law fin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law... | |
 | William Huntington - 1788 - 488 pages
...enable us to do, becaufe it could not give life : For, when we were in thefieJh, the motions of fin, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death, Rom. vii. 5. The apoftlc tells us that we are dead to the law, loofed from the law, and delivered from... | |
 | David Levi - 1789 - 174 pages
...Wherefore, my brethren, ye alfo are become " dead to the law by the body of Chrift, &c." And verfe 6. " But now we are delivered from " the law, that being dead, wherein we were " held; that we fhould ferve in the newnefs of " fpirit, and not in the oldnefs of the letter." In the acts of the... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 478 pages
...two ftates, and the time paft from the preferit. When we were m the JJe/h, fays he, the motions of fm which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruits unto death, but now we are delivered from the law, that we fhould feme in newnefs of fpirit.... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1793 - 384 pages
...dead; that we fhoald bring forth fruit vmtoGod. For when we were in the flefli, the motions of fin which were by the law, did work in our members to...law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we fhould ferve in newnefs of Spirit, and not in the oldnefs of the letter. 2 Cor. iii. 7, — 10. But... | |
 | William Paley - 1796 - 448 pages
...lyea^weeftablt/Ijthelaw" Inthefe^ venth chapter, when in the fixthverfe he had advanced the bold aflertion, that " now we *•* are delivered from the law, that being dead ^ ** wherein we were held;" in the very next verfe he comes in with this healing queflion, *•* What fhall we fay then? Isthelawfin?... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 738 pages
...brinr; forth fruit unto G«xl. For when we were in the flcfh, the motions of fins which were by ths law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But nnw we are delivered from the law, th»t being dead wherein we were held ; (hat we fliould fcrve in... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...arc vain and • ineffectual : " When we were in the flefli, (faith the apoftle) the " motions of fin which were by the law did work in our members, " to bring forth fruit unto death," Rom. vii. 5. fin was then in its full dominion, no abftinence, rigour, or outward feverity ; no purpofes,... | |
 | William Huntington - 1800 - 132 pages
...lut under grace. Will this yoke of the law make the believer's fervice more acceptable to God ? No. We are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we fhould ferve in the mwnejs of the Spirit, and not in the oldnefs cf the letter. Will this yoke of the... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 5 For, when we were 5 n the flesh , the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that \ve should serve... | |
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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 
