We may observe in this chapter, I. Our freedom from the law further urged as an argument to press upon us sanctification, Rom. 7:1–6. II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle’s own experience, notwithstanding, Rom. 7:7–14. III.

Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one , that we are not under the law; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained : We are delivered from the law.

To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? When he had been speaking of the dominion of sin, he had said so much of the influence of the law as a covenant upon that dominion that it might…

Conflict between Grace and Corruption. (a. d. 58.) 14b—But I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.