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St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Illustrated From Divines of the Church of England
St Paul's Epistle to the Romans Illustrated From Divines of the Church of England Author:James Ford General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me ? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do T allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do 1. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 13 The Law was " added because of transgressions" (Gal. iii. 19) ; not for justification, but for transgression ; namely, to suppress and to express sin. The civil use of the Law is to punish transgression and to restrain villany. Good men are " a law unto themselves;" and so " the law is not given unto the righteous man" (1 Tim. i. 9). ... The spiritual use of the Law is to reveal sin, that a man, as in a glass, may behold his ignorance, misery, blindness, infirmity, judgment, death, hell; as a corosie laid unto an old sore, not to heal it, hut to stir it up, and make the disease alive; that a man may feel in what peril he stands, and how nigh to death's door. For our natures are so corrupt, that we could not know them to be corrupt without the Law. " Is not My Word, even as fire ?" saith the Lord, " and like a hammer breaking stone" (Jer. xxiii. 29). It is that mighty strong wind, and that-terrible earthquake, " rending the mountains and cleaving the rocks asunder;" that is, the proud and obstinate sinners (1 Kings xix.) Elijah, as not being able to abide these terrors of the Law, w...« less