That which is good; the good law of God.

Made death unto me? Was it the law which caused his ruin? By no means. It was his own wicked violations of it.

Sin; this was the cause of his ruin.

Working death in me by that which is good; by leading me to resist the law, to sin against greater light and stronger motives, and thus become more sinful: such are the effects of human depravity when left to act itself out under the influence of mere law. The fact that the more clearly men in their natural state see the purity and extent of the law of God, the more strenuously they resist it and thus increase their wickedness, shows most strikingly the hateful nature and desperate tendency of human depravity, and the utter fallace of all hope, from the influence of law merely, of ever removing or lessening it.

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