 | 1805 - 672 pages
...though ill understood by thousands; accordingly, our inspired writer thinks proper to enlarge upon it. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which...work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death ; but now we are delivered from the law, that being dead, wherein we were held, that we should serve... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pages
...from what the apostle says, Rom. vii. 5, 7, 8. ' For when we arc in the flesh, the motions of sins which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid; Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...jew, as well as those he spoke to. m « TEXT. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. PARAPHRASE. 5 should bring forth fruit unto God1. For when we were after so fleshly " a manner, under... | |
 | John Howe - 1813 - 536 pages
...the flesh. When we were in the flesh, under the power and regnancy of any corrupt, fleshly principle, the motions of sin which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. Rom. 7- 5. And, Thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity, as it is said to Simon... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...sinneth not. m Rom. vii. 5. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by Ttie law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. Ver. 7. What shall we say then > Is the law sin ? O"d forbid. Nay, 1 had not known sin, but by the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pages
...dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh the motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1815 - 564 pages
...explains what he means by the vldness of the letter. When we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. But the being born again, mentioned by Christ, is not said in opposition to a wicked life ; he opposes... | |
 | Nathan Bangs - 1815 - 336 pages
...ver. 4, of the 8th chapter, inclusive. Ver. 5. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. This proposition he takes up at the 7th verse, and illustrates it in a very striking manner, by personifying... | |
 | 1824 - 496 pages
...these two states, and the time past from the present. " When we were in the flesh," he observes, " the motions of sin which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death ; but now we are delivered from the law, that we should serve in newness of spirit." Here are the two... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...iii. 12. As saith the proverb of the ancients: Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked. 1 Sam. xxiv. 13. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which...work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. Rom. vii. 5. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his... | |
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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. 
