i This Verſe hath greatly vexed Fnterpreters. The Apoſtle ſpeak- ng ſimply and abſtratedly of a Law; The Queſtion is, What Law he meas © Some take the word unproperly, for a Decree or Con- ation, which was impoſed upon him, and rowhich he was neceſfari- Iv ſubje& ; -that when he would do good, evil ſhould be preſent with iz, Others by Law, here do underſtand the Law of Sin; of which be ſpeiks afterwards, wer. 23. 25, Sin 1s like a Law, and fo
9 8. I find by ſad experience ſuch a forcible Power in Sin. That vin 1 would do goed, I am hindred, and can't do it fo freely and fully as I deſire. Others by Law, bere do underſtand the Law of Gd: And thoſe that io underſtand it, have given no lefs, than Eiz7e Interpretations to make the Grammatical Connexion ; the b:[t is of thoſe that ſay the Prepolition 2], is underſtood, a fre- quent E!lzp/is in the Greek Tongue (vid James 1. 25.) and then the vence 1s this ; I find that when according to the Law or Command if Grd, I would do goed, <wvil 15 preſent with me. k Another Pc11- piralis of Original 8&7, of waich there are many in this Chapter. Juſt now jr was the Sin that dwelleth inns, and here it is the Evil | flat is preſent with us: Ir inheres and adheres, or hangs upon us continually, Ir iS Aajacent, ſo the Greet Word ſignihes, and al- Ways at hand ; we carry it about with us at all times, and into all Places whitherſoever we go, it follows us; or as itis here, in our doing of Good it is a very great Impediment to us. 22 For || 1 delight 1n the law of God! after * the in- Ward man m. | { This ſhews yer more expreſly that the Apoſtle ſpeaketh in the ' Perſon of a Regenerate May, or of himſelf as Regenerazte, Cer- | fanly to delight in the Law of God is an inſeparable property of uch 2 one, vid. Pſal. 1.2. and 119. 77, 111. m7 7, e. "The New dan or Regenerate Part within me: This is called the Hidden Mar
7 ihe Heart, wid, Chzp. 2. 29. 2 Cer. 4.15, 1 Pet. 3.4.
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8 1 6. A Law quite different from the Law of God mentioned in " :0regoing Verſe. By the Law in the \!embers underſtand na- Wal Corruption, which like a Law Commandeth and Inclineth by "Murewards and puniſhments ; and by the Law in :he mind un- ſtand a principle of Grace, which isa Law as well as the other, ng and inclining to that which is good, The Law in the
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24 O Wretched man that } an 7, who taail deliver me r from |! the bodv of this death « ?
7 The word ignifies one wearied out with continual combares. 4.4; of r It is not the voice of one detponding or doubting, but of one 42h. breathing and panting 1frer dejiver:nce ; the like patherical ex- clamations are frequent. wid. Pſai. 55. 6, Ons calls this verſe, Gemitus Sanfiorum, the Groan of the Goalzy, 5 Or, from this Body of Deazh, or by an Aebraiſm, from this dead Body, this carcaſe of Sin to which I am inſeparably taſtned,as noyſome every whitto my Soul as a dead carcaſs to my S-2ſc:. This is another circumlocuti- on or denomination of Original 3x. chav. 6. 6- "tis called the Padv of Sin, and here the Boaz of death : it tends and binds over to death.
25 I thank God?z thiouzh joins Chritt our Lord - So then, with the mind 1 my fe! ferve the Law of Gd ; but with the fleſh. the Jaw cf tin ww. |
£ Who hath already d-livered me from-the ſlavery and dominion of Sin ſo that though it war agazaft me, I fill refit it, and by the firengrh of Ch:ifi, do frequently overcome it. 1 Cr. 15, - <5 A This is the concluiion the :Apoltle maketh of this -XPeriment 4 diſcourſe. w. 9. 4. So far as I am renewcd, I yield Obedience to the Law of Gd; and fo fir as } :m unregenzrate, T obey hs dictares and Suggeſtions of the [aw of Sim. Objeff. No ——— ſerve two contiary Maſters, A. Th: Apoſtle did nor ferve theih two in the ſame part, or the fame rerewed facuiry ; nor did ke do it at the fame time ordinwily ; and {or the mot part he ſerved rhe Law of Ged, though ſome times through che power of Temptation and indwelling corruption, he wis enforced acainſt his (#47 ©: ſerve the Law of Sin, b
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The Apoſtle's Inference ; th:r2 ir no Condemnation to thoſe who avs 1+; Chriſt : and who live according to the Spirit : being delivered from ſin, and Death, cndued with a principle of Life: united to C:yiP : and Sons of God: of ers ihe Spirit brareth wi*rncſs, 136, Toint- heirs with Chriſt to Suffer with him : but alſo to be g'orifid with him :
}£ which glorious delivirance the whole Creation lovneth for, and thiy
themſelvcs harve the hops therenf: and hope ts of things not preſent, but with patience to be waited for 19,—25. The Aſitancs of the Holy Ghoſt in Prayer, £6, 27. Tine End of Belicwers and 2! the moans thereto decreed by God, 23—;o Our Glerying in God througy Chriſt x through whom we jhall overcome all things. 31— 39.
Here is therefore now a no condemnation 6 to them which are in Chriſt Jeſus c, who {| walk not aker || Or, 7?
the Fleſh, bur after the Spi:ir d. _ #: a Seeing things are ſo as I have ſaid; ſince Believers do nat aJ- © yy ; low themſelves in Sin, chap. 7. 15. and are in part dclivered £9”:
from it, as v. 25. therefore it foilows 1s 'tis here. 6 Or, no one Condemnation, He doth nor fay there is 10 matter of Cond-1923tton,
or nothing damnablein them that are in Chtit there's enough and enough of that; buthe ſivs, there is no attua! Cond wmanation. rofuct
vid, Fohu 3. 18. and 5. 24 There isa Meichs in the words, mcre