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...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...

...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....

...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 known lust, except the law had said, Thou shaltnot covet,' An inclination to evil is really a fountain of sin, and therefore inconsistent with...

...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 known lust except the law had said, " Thou shall not covet.'" Filleron has indeed seen punishments, executions, and gens-d'armes ; but gens-d'armes...

...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...

...person through the remainder of the chapter. " What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." That the reasoning throughout this refnarkable passage is of a curious and subtle quality, and very...

...of the remarkable passage of scripture which closes this chapter of his epistle. " Nay," says he, " I had not known sin but by the law; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shall not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.''...

...described as 'concupiscence'. We find this word in Romans 7 and it is something that we must always preach. 'But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought...of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead' (v.8). This is the biblical way of describing desire - evil desire. The trouble is not simply that...

...out in all the outward members. Thus sin grows bold, and spurns 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 to me?...