persons I would say, be steadfast in your course, and endeavour to " abound more and more." And, that you may see what heights are to be attained, set the Lord Jesus Christ before you both in his death and resurrection ; that, " being planted in the likeness of the one, ye may be also in the likeness of the other"1." What had he to do with the cares or pleasures of this world, when he was " buried" in the grave? Or when has a moment's intermission of his services to God occurred, since his resurrection from the dead ? Let this, then, be your pattern, both in your death unto sin, and in your living unto righteousness : and, as you acknowledge yourselves to have " been bought with a price, seek and labour to glorify Him with your bodies and your spirits, which are his11."]
n 1 Cor. vi. 20.
Rom. vi. 8 — 11. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that xoe shall also live with him : knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more ; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once : but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likeivise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
THE Gospel in every age, when freely and faith- fully delivered, has been calumniated as injurious to morality. But St. Paul, though he well knew how his doctrines would be misrepresented, did not on that account mutilate the Gospel, or declare it less freely than it had been revealed to him : he pro- claimed salvation altogether by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, without any works or deservings on our part : but at the same time he shewed that good works, though excluded from any share in justifying the soul, would of necessity be practised by every believer ; because the believer, by his very profession, was, and could not but be, " dead unto sin, and alive unto righteousness." He shewed, that there would of necessity be in the believer's soul a conformity to his Lord and Saviour, since he bound himself to it in his baptismal engagements, or rather professed