2 He Proſecutes what he had before Propounded, and Tlluſtrates it by an apt Similitude, which is taken from Graffing or Planting. He takes 1t for granted, That Believers are Planted together in the likeneſs of Chriſt's death, i e. Are made Conformable to Him in his Death, wid. Phil. 3. 10. Chriſt Died, and Believers Die ; the One a Natural, the Other a Spiritual Dearh. The One by way of Expiation, Suffering, and Satisfying for the Sins of Others; the Other by way of Mortification, Killing, and Crucifying their own Sins. 9 Inthe Original, the Sentence is Elliptical and Imperfe& : The Words running thus, We ſball be of his Rejurrefion; our Tranſ. lation therefore fills up the Sence with a word borrowed from the preceding Clauſe, See the like, John 5.36. 7 have a greater WFit- neſs than of John, 3. e. Than that witneſs of John. The Sence of the whole is this, That Belzevers are not only dead, but riſen witch Chr:#, Col.z. 1. They partake of ſuch a Reſurre#;on as reſembles His; As Chiiſt Aroſe from the Dead to a New Life, ſo we Riſe fiom Dead Works, to walk in Newneſs of Life, ver. 4. Moreover, they are raiſed and quickned by a Power and Vertue that flows from Chriſt and Fi; Reſwrre#ion : This isthat Yertue which the Apo. {ftle Paul fo earneſtly defired to be made a Partaker of, Phil. ;. ro. The Graft revives with the Stock in the Spring, and that by a Ver- rue which it receives from the Srock; So as a Believer is rais'd to Newneſs of Life, by a Vertue flowing from Chriſt into whom he is Engrafted. 2. Why Goth he ſay Believers ſhall be Planted, &c. Are they not io already. upon their believing in Chr:ſt ? 4. The Apoſtle rather chuſerh to ſpeak in the Furure, than in the Preſent Tenſe : Rather we ſhall be, than we arc, or kave been, becauſe the Work is only begun ; itdaily increaſeth more and more, until it comes to a full PerfeQtion in Heaven.
'6 Knowing this, that our * old man r is || crucified with biz s, that the body of fin t might be deſtroyed «, that henceforth we ſhould not ſerve ſin w. *
r By the old man is meant, That corrupt and polluted Nature which we derive from Adam the firſt Man, wid. Epheſ. 4.22.Col.3. 9, 19. The O!dand New Man are Oppoſites ; as then the New Man is
"Gal. 2. 20. C5. 24. & 6. 4.
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the Image of Gearepauzed in us ; fo the Old Man is a deprayation of
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that Image of God, and an univerſal Pollution cf the whols \
s By Vertue of our Union with him, and by means of his ay. and Crucifixion, wid. Gal. 2. 20. t The Body of Sin is the ye _ thathe call'd before the Old Man. The Corrupt Nature is " "e. called the Body, chap.8. 13. Sometimes a Body of Death, pgs. 24. and here the Body of Sin. "Tis indeed a meer maſ; and tun.” YL Sin; it is not one Sin, but al Sin Seminally. *Tig with Ref,.? 0 this Body of Sin, that particular Luſts and Corruption; Re, Nc. Members, Col. 3. 5. # Weakened more and more, ti!] zi deſtroyed. w As we did before Regeneration ; and 15 they py do, who voluntarily commit it, Johm 8. 34, They gg ns. = aft Sin, bur are aQed by it, having as many Lords as Luſt mo 3. Sec more of this wer. 16. ns
7 For he that is dead is * | freed from fin
s: He that is dead. i. e. To Sin, is freed fromit, nor on! " inx es ſpe& of the Guilt thereof, which ſence the margina] "re 14 word ſeems to reſpe(t, bur aiſo ia regard of th: ſic; On. This agrees beſt with the Context ; Look as He chat jr deg; j was and diſcharg'd from the Authority of thoſe who had Domin;. ws ver him in his Life time; So it is with thoſe thar are a:ag wy". There 1s a Parallel Place, 1 Pe. 4. 1. Wa
8 Now * it we be dcad with Chriſt, we belje we ſhall alſo iive with bim y.
» 7.e. Tf we have Fellowſhip with Chriſt in his Death, we hay ; reaſon to believe we ſhall have Fe:ilowſhip with him al _ Reſurre&ion and Life, wid. wer. 5, Though Everlaſting be ng = cluded, yet a Spiritual Life 1s principally utended ; we ſhalt, live with Chriſt, as no more to return to dead works, The nc : words ſhew this to be the Sence. "
9 Knowing z * that Chriit being raiſed from the dead «1, dyeta no more ; death hach no mor? dominion gy; i. him,
z 9. 4. Of this you know you have an Example or Copy Chriſt himſelf; He fo Roſe again, as never more to cone yn the Power of Death.
10 For in that he died, he diedinnto fin once 2; bu: jy that * he liveth, he livecth unto God 5. Tt
a For as when he ated to Sin, i. e. Totake away fin, he 0s if but once. wid. Heb. 9.28. and 10. 10,14. 6 Bur when he ;06 again from the dead, ke liveth with God tor ever an immoitil 64. lefs Life. By this Phraſe is expreſt that eternal and indiiloly;!- Union, which the Son hath with the Father.
11 Likewiſec reckon ye aiſo your telves to be dead in. deed unto fin, but alive unto God || carough Jeſus Chriſt -0 our ] ord . _
c Soweinlike manner muſt make account, that by vertye oft; ® Death, we are dead to Sin, and by vertue of his Reſurre&ion ;1; alive to God, and ſo alive as never to reſume our former courſes, gr return again to our former fins. d Or, in 7eſus Chriſt ow Lord, i. s, after the Similitude of Jefus Chriſt, who ſo /:wes as to die no more, Or elſe this Phraſe imports, thar Jeſus Chriſt is the roo: of our Spiritual Life ; even as the Cion lives in the Stock, ſo Believers are alive unto God in Jeſus Chriſt, receiving from him thit vertye whereby their ſpiritual Life is begun, maintained and perfeFted,
'12 Let nor fin therefoie e reign f in your mort! body g, that you ſhould obey it in che lutts there. of h.
e 9. d. Seeing this 1s the caſe, that you are dead ro Sin, baptiz:d into Chriſt, are planted together into the : likeneſs of his Death, &c. Therefore the rather hearkenro, and obey the following ex- hortation. By Sin he means the Sin or Corruption of our Nature, the ſame that before he called the Old Man, and the Boa) of Sin, There are remainders thereof in the Regenerate, in them 'tis moi- tified, but not eradicated. Therefore to them this Exhortation is not unneceſſary. f He doth norſfay, Let it not be or ceſide, but! it not reign or preſide ; let it not bear ſway or have: dominion in you ; let it not have the upper hand of the motions of the Spirit of God. g The Body (called here a moral or frail body) isput by a Synecdoche for the whole Man ; and he the rather makes men- tion of the Body, becauſe the parts and members thereof are the uſual Inſtruments of Sin. Therefore it follows in the next Verſe,
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