Explanatory Notes Upon The New Testament By J Wesley Eleventh Edition With The Last Corrections Of The Author With The Text And With A Portrait PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...life and death are ascribed. But he speaks indifferently of the law being dead to us, or we to it, the sense being the same. 2. She is freed from the law of her husband--From that law which gave him a peculiar property in her. 4. Thus ye also--Arc now as free from the Mosaic law, as a husband is, when his wife is dead. By the body of Christ--Ofl'ored up; that is, by tho merits of his death, that law expiring with him. 5 bring forth fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so 6 as to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are freed from the law, being dead unto that whereby we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then? That the law is sin? God forbid. Yea, I should not have known sin, but for the law. I had not 8 known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all man 9 ner of desire: for without the law sin was dead. And I was once alive without the law; but when the commandment came, sin re 10 vived, and I died. And the commandment which was intended 11 for life, this I found unto death. For sin taking occasion by the 12 commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. 5. When ye were in the flesh--Carnally minded, in a state of nature: before we believed in Christ. Our sins which were by the law, accidentally occasioned, or irritated thereby; wrought in our members--Spread themselves all over tho whole man. 6. Being dead to that whereby we were held--To our old husband, tho law, that we might serve in...