...the defect of the law, which the Apostle says, arose from the weakness of the flesh, therefore, now " the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." If faith alone justifies without the deeds of the law, Christ has made the law righteous for no purpose...

...enjoy, after he came to know and to approve the moral law, that mirror of the divine perfections ! " Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me ? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working...

...to it an habitual burden ? The language of a believer is the same with that of the apostle Paul : " Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me ? God forbid. But sin, that it ' might appear sin, working...

...created intelligence, being the prerogative of JEHOVAH." BIBLE INSTRUCTION. No. IX. THE LAW OF GOD. " Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." — ROMANS vii. 12. THE law of God is the rule of Christian duty. When the sinner believes on Christ,...

...Then, at the 12th, after shewing the office of the law, the Apostle concludes, as already cited, — " Wherefore the LAW is holy ; and the COMMANDMENT holy, and just, and good." And, at the 14th, — " For we know that the law is SPIRITUAL." And, lastly, at th,e 25th verse, —...

...resign all for Christ's sake. When that great servant of God, the apostle Paul, had learnt that, " the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good ;" he had then a proper view of himself and God; and in the midst of the painful conflict, he said,...

...and set on God himself, on his holy law. -Though it strike against his most beloved lust, he says, " The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." He loves the ordinances of God : " How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts !" Being " passed...

...upon me unawares, slew all my hopes ; and plainly showed, that in the midst of life, I was in death " Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment, holy, and just, and good," ver. 12. I no longer lay the blame on this, but on the corruption of my own heart. I acknowledge that...

...to render all men just — if the purposes of God must be accomplished, will not all men be just ? " The law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good/' Rom. 7, 12. A certain lawyer asked Christ " which is the great commandment in the law ?" Jesus said...

...keep thy statutes!" He is perfectly satisfied that, however he may be " carnal, sold under sin," " the law is holy, and the commandment, holy, and just, and good."* He blames himself only, not the strictness of the precept ; he laments the weakness and corruption...