 | Nathan Bangs - Theology, Doctrinal - 1815 - 336 pages
...Apostle illustrates from ver, 7. of the 7th chapter, to ver. 4, of the 8th chapter, inclusive. Ver. 5. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,...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... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1815 - 564 pages
...St. Paul 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... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...of our religion. Sin cannot be knoiton CHAP VII. AM cir.4062. Аи. Olvmn. dr. CCI X. 2. AUCcir.811. 6 But now we are delivered from the law, " that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve bin newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. «Or, bring drad ta thai. ch. 6. 2. ver.... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1817 - 680 pages
...fruit unto God. For, when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were under the law, wrought in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death: 6 but now we are delivered from the law, having died to that1 by which we were holden ; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1824 - 496 pages
...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... | |
 | 1839 - 788 pages
...ordinances concerning the flesh, as of foods and drinks, of leprosy, and such like, are what he here calls the flesh ; the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members. He says not " in " the law but by the law, for it does not itself bring about sin, but it condemns... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1820 - 440 pages
...to tke deceitful lusts.* Farther : Mr. B. thinks this sentiment supported by a passage in Rom. vii. 6. «' 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." (p. 73.) But his sense of the passage,... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...works of the flesh are manifest, which are these : adultery, fornication, &c.&c. Gal.v. 19 — 21. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which...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,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1821 - 490 pages
...for the love of the spirit ;| that is, without doubt, for the love of their religion. Now, says he, we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve iff newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter; that is, that we should obey the doctrine... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 314 pages
...God. In the same person, sin dwelleth, as we read, " When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. And the new man liveth, who after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." The apostle in... | |
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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. 
