 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...accordingly drew from us thosp effects, which did justly procure our eternal death. 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. But now, we are delivered... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...condemn him. But is this sentence of the Law still in force against believers ? no, says the Apostle, we are delivered from the Law, that being dead wherein we were held : Rom. vii. 6. and, if the Law's power to condemn believers be dead, sin's power to condemn them, which... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1810 - 292 pages
...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, not in the oldness of the letter." (73.) But his sense of the passage,... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - Christian ethics - 1810 - 446 pages
...faith ', -without the deeds of the law — that the law is not made for a righteous man — that now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held — that we are also become dead to the law by the body tf Christ — that <we are not under the law, but under... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 406 pages
...law" In the seventh chapter, when in the sixth verse he had advanced the boldassertion, " that now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;" in the very next verse he comes in with this healing question, " What shall we say then ? Is the law... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...easy. Love is " the obedience which he requires of us. " Love is the rule and measure of our duty. " We are delivered from the law, that being " dead wherein we were held!' Can such sentiments he justified Love is indeed the principle of Christian obedience. But the principle... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
..."ye are not under the law, but under grace." Will this yoke of the law make the believer's service more acceptable to God ? No. "We are delivered from...law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the Better." Will this yoke of the... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...mercy, and upon the Israel of God," Galat. vi. 15, 16. 5. My next reason is, I am informed that, " 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," Rom. vii. 6. And to send... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 514 pages
...and real, by the Apostles ; as appears from these words of St. Paul : — But nozv we. are. delevered from the Law, that being DEAD wherein we were, held, that we should servein NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, and not in the OLDNESS OF THE LETTER*. We see here, the Apostle gives... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 pages
...until Christ came to us; but, after he is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster, but are redeemed from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, Rom. vii. 6. Yea, we are... | |
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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. 
