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work, or Weapons that Soldiers fight withal; for as thole, 10 theſe may be uſed well or ill, e. g. with the hand one man giveti an alms, another ſtealeth ; withthe tongue one man blelſeth, an0- ther curſeth, By members here we are not only to underſtand the parts of the Body, as the Hands, Eyes, Ears, &«c. but allo the Faculties of the Soul; as the Underſtanding, Will, Atte&100s,0% Theſe bear ſome proportion to the bodily members, as the Under- ſtanding to the Eye, &c. - All of them muſt be employed by us, #5 Weapons to fight, not under the command of Satan for S$1n, but under the command of God for Righteouſneſs. & Theſe words contain a reaſon why we ſhould nor ſerve Sin and Satin, but be- queath and dedicate our ſelves to the ſervice of God becaule "= are indued with a Spiritual Life, after a Spiritual Death ; or HECa ; we have received ſo great a benefit as to be raiſed in Chriſt won the death and power of lin,
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-o are not under the law, but under grace ». 1 inthe 12. v. 1t was an Exhortation, but in thisit 1s a Promiſe vat tin {hall not re1gn 1N and over us. Rebel it may, but Reign + ſhall not in the regenerate. It hath loſt its abſolute and uncon- ecouled poWere It fares with ſin in ſuch as with thoſe beaſts in man. 7. 12. who though their lives were prolonged for a Seaſon, ;-4 their dominion taken away. It is an encouragement to fight, Chen we areſureof Victory. m He adds this as a reaſon of what \- had afſerted and promiſed, You are not under a Legal, but Goſpel Diſpentation ; ſo ſome expound the words. Grace is often put for the Goſpel, or you are not under the Old, but the New Co- "nant. The Law and Grace thus differ ; the one condemns the 6inner, the other abſolves him ; the one requires perfe&, the other \ccepts ſincere Obedience: the one preſcribes what we muſt do, the other aſſiſts us in the doing of our duty : This laſt ſeems to be the genuine ſenſe. 9g. d. you may be ſure ſin ſhall have no domini- 1» over you, for you are not under the Law, which forbids ſin, but vives no power againft it, . or which requires obedience, and gives -o ſtrength to perform it (like Egyptian Taskmaſters which required Bricks, but gave no Straw,) but under the Goſpel or Covenant of Grace, where lin is not only forbidden, but the ſinner is enabled to nft and overcome it. ©. But whit ſhall be ſaid of the Godly in the rimes of the Law ; were not they under Grace ? 4. They were, 44. 15. 11. H*b. 4. 2. Bur not in the ſame degree. The Godly kid help and aſſiſtance under the Law, but they had it nor by the Lw, How Believers are ſaid not to be under the Law. wid. (2p, 7. 4+
15, What then* » ſhall we fin, * becauſe we are not :nder the law, but under grace 2 God forbid 0.
s Doth it follow from hence that we are lawleſs, and may live x5 we lit? 09. d. No by no means, the premiſles afford no ſuch Concluſion ; though we are not under the curſe and rigour of the Law, yet we are under its dire&ions and diſcipline: The Goſpel :llows of ſin no more than the Law. The Apottle is careful both tre and elſewhere, to prevent licenciouſneſs, or the abuſe of Chriſtian Liberty. vid. Gal. 5. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 16. wid. v. 1, and the notes there,
ſelves ſervants to obey, his ſervants ye are to whom ye obey ; Whether of {in unto death, or of obedience into Righreouſmeſs q 2?
2 He refutesthe atorementioned cavil,, by a common Axiom , threvery one knows and apprehends. q Which will be rewarded with ct.1nal lite. But why doth he not ſay of obedience unto life ? thin the Autitheſis had been more plain and full. Becauſe though l., the cauſe of dearh, yet obedience is not the cauſe of life (as . ::,) Lut only the way to 1t,
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the Servants of fn r 5 but ye have obeyed from the heart that F form
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79 4d. But as for you, God be thanked, that though once you vere the Servants of ſin, viz. when you were ignorant and unre- rnerate, yet now you are freed from that bondage, and ſet at liberty from the power and dominion of ſin, s This Phraſe ex- pref:th the efficacy of Divine Do&rine in the hearts of Believers ; i changeth and faſhioneth their hearts according to its likeneſs, : Cor. 3. 18, Hence in James 1. 21. 'tis called an ingraffed word ;
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18 * Peing then mad- free fromſin * ye became the
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ti, e, The ſervitude of fin, Having received a manumiſſion from that hard and evil Maſter, you have given up your ſelves to a bet- kr and more ingenugus !ervice.
19 I ſpeak alle the manner of men, becauſe of the infirmicy of your fleſh « : For as 2» ye have yeilded tour members ſervants to uncleannels x and to iniquity into iniquity y 3 even ſo now yield your members rvants to righteouſneſs, unto holineſs.