...you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts ? [selfish covetings, according to that explanation, " I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not cotie*."] — Ye lust and have not; ye kill, you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the cheek, offer...

...occasions to arise. " What shall " we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid, * Matthew, xxi. 43. N " Nay, I had not known sin but by the law : for " I had not...lust, except the law had said, " Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion " by the commandment, wrought in me all man" ner of concupiscence. For without...

...sin ; that is, I had not so fully understood the abominable nature thereof as I do, but by the lanv: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet; and hereupon he concludes, that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (2.)...

...This was the experience of Paul, under the convictions of conscience, according to his own account. "I had not known sin but by the law; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...

...are many crimes which men would not have known to be sins, " I " had not known sin," says St. Paul, " but by the " law : for I had not known lust, except the law " had said, Thou shalt not covet." It is the law, then which by awakening and enlightening our conscience, teaches us that sin deserves...

...recesses, as easily to elude the view of man. And it is not without cause that the Apostle says, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:" (£• ) because unless it be stripped of its disguises and brought to light by the law, it destroys...

...illustrates this sentiment, as well as establishes its truth, by reference to his own experience : " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Contrasting the purity and spirituality of the Divine law, with the corruptions which he found in himself,...

...what law is " the knowledge of sin?" By the moral, or by the ritual law? — " I had not known sjn, but by the " law; for I had not known lust, except the law had • " said, Thou shalt not covet."f Indeed all the apostle's preceding discourse had been concerning the violations of the moral...

...he determines that it is the moral law by which we come to the knowledge of sin; " for," says he, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." Now it is the moral, and not the ceremonial law, that says, " thou shalt not covet." Therefore, when...

...generally understood to be the following : " What shall we say then ? is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law ; for I had not...lust except the law had said, thou shalt not covet (q)-"-~-tc It is observable here." says Dr. Nicholls, " that the compilers of our Articles do not say,...