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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Romans 7 The Apostle, in this chapter, discourses concerning the freedom of justified and regenerated persons from the law, and concerning the nature, use, and excellency of it; in which he removes several objections to it, and gives an account from his own experience of the struggle and combat there is between flesh and spirit in a regenerate person; and which shows, that though...
John Gill
I find then a law,.... This is to be understood either of the corruption of nature, which he found by experience to be in him; and which, because of its force, power, and prevalence it sometimes had in him, he calls "a law"; it forcibly demanding compliance with its lusts; and is the same with what he calls "evil", and which the Jews so frequently style יצר הרע "the evil imagination", by which...
Matthew Henry
We may observe in this chapter, I. Our freedom from the law further urged as an argument to press upon us sanctification, ver. 1-6. II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle's own experience, notwithstanding, ver. 7-14. III. A description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, ver. 14, 15, to the end. Observations Respecting the Law. (a....
Charles H. Spurgeon
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. Speaking for myself, I can say that, often, when I am most earnest in prayer, stray thoughts will come into my mind to draw me off from the holy work of supplication; and when I am most intently aiming at humility, then the shadow of pride falls upon me. Do not gracious men generally find it so? If their experience is like...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I find then a law, Or rule.
Charles H. Spurgeon
That, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Now, the more holy a man gets the more he cries in this fashion. While...