| Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 488 pages
...right. He now feels with a distinguishing sensation, the Apostle's description of it, when he says, " The law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and " just and good." He cries out, " All is infinitely holy and " good, come of me what will." He becomes enlightened with... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 560 pages
...-right. He now feels with a distinguishing sensation, the Apostle's description of it, when he says, " The law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and " just and good.'' He cries out, " All is infinitely holy and " good, come of me what will." He hecomes enlightened with... | |
| 1811 - 450 pages
...respects. Like its glorious author, it is light, and in it is no darkness at all. But since an apostle hath said, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good ; it may be proper to illustrate these three perfections of the moral law. more particularly. First... | |
| Jacob Catlin - 1824 - 314 pages
...which is revealed in the bible, affords unquestionable evidence of the holiness and goodness of God. " The law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good." Especially does this appear, since the law is enforced by an adequate penalty. The character of legislators... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 584 pages
...is the tenor of it contained. Now, saith the apostle, whatever becemes of the sin, and the sinner, ' the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good;' Rom. vii. 12. Holy in itself, and its own nature, as being the order and constitution of the most holy... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1828 - 478 pages
...illustrations be admitted, they may be considered as a commentary on the words of the Apostle Paul : " The law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good." In like manner, it might have been shown, that all the Apostolic injunctions, and other precepts recorded... | |
| Matthew Henry - 1833 - 702 pages
...God very extensive? Yes: Thy commandment is exceeding broad, Ps. cxix. 96. And very excellent ? Yes : s name with seriousness ? Yes : They feared the Lord, and thought Rom. vii. 13. Is it admirable? Yes: Thy testimonies arc wonderful, Ps. cxix. 129. Is any thingunjust... | |
| Matthew Henry - 1835 - 142 pages
...very extensive ? Yes : Thy commandment is exceeding broad, Ps. cxix. 96. And very excellent 1 Yes : the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good, Roru. vii. 12. Is it beyond any other law ? Yes : what nation is there so great, that hath statutes... | |
| George Coles - 1836 - 406 pages
...are universally depraved, we may notice a universal disregard of the divine laws. Notwithstanding " the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good," and the universal observance of them would secure universal righteousness, peace, and happiness, yet there... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 512 pages
...ceremonial law was sanctity — the sum of the civil law was equity — the sum of the moral law was love^-" The law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good." To the requirements of the moral law, as delivered from Mount Sinai, so far as I know, men have not... | |
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