“Sin Revived, and I Died”

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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died (Rom. 7:9).

Let us illustrate how it is that sin revises. You have seen a carpenter take a straight-edge, as it is called, to see whether boards are straight. He takes a board, and looks at it, and says, “I guess that is straight”; but when he applies the straight-edge to it, he finds that it is full of bends. He could not see the inequalities till he laid the straight-edge along the board; but then he saw them plainly.

Now, God’s word is a straightedge; and if a man lays it on his course of conduct, it shows him that what he thought was right is wrong.

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