7 becauſe & the carnal mind js enmity a againſt Gyg: for ir is not ſubject i&,the law of God, neither indeed can be 5. ;
z q. 4, Neither can the carnal man look for any better ify. Becauſe a carual mind is enmity againſt God, a He doth not ſay 2 is an, Enemy, but in the abſtraf, it 1s exmiry, which heighteng ing intends the ſence; an enemy may be reconciled; as Eſau was tg Facob ; but Enmity cannot be reconciled, as black may be mag: white, but blackneſs cannot. 6b This isrendered as reaſon of the forgoing affertion, and it is taken from the property of em Thoſe that are at enmity, croſs each others wills, and won't ſybm;: ro one another: And the carnal mind is rebellious in the hizhel degree againſt the will of God, unleſs it be changed and renee. it 15 impoſſible ir ſhould be otherwiſe. There is init a moral in. potency to obedience, wid. John 8. 43. 1 Cor. 2. 14.
8 00 then c chey that are in che fleſh 4 cannot ple God e.
c This Verſe is a conſeQtary, or it follows from that which wen, before. d Not they whichare maxried, as a Pope once expounde it. The next verſe refells ſuch an abturd conception , bur they that are carnal and unregenerate, the ſame with thoſe, who in wer. 5. are {aid to be atrer the Fleſh, e Neither they, nor any. thing they do, is pleaſing unto him : their beſt works are dei]. works, and filken fins (as one expreſſeth it) It muſt be undz. ſtood with this limitation, fo long as they continue in ſuch ae vid. Pſal. 54. 5. Heb. 11. 6. |
. 9 But ye f are nor in the fleſh, bur in the ſhicity, it 4 ſobe that * the Spirit of God dwell in you i. Noy'! - any man have not the* Spiric of Chriſt, he is none? 1s KR, |
f Here he applics what he had laid down more generally tothe j believing Romans in particular, g. i. e. Not after the Fi, but | after the Spirit (as in. wv. 5.) or not carnally, but Spiritualy mmiu, | þ The Conjunttion here is cauſal not conditional ; it may be rendred, ſeeing that, or forarmuch as ; wid. wv. 17. & 3. 2 Thi. 2.6. # The Spirit of God dwells in the regenerate, not only by the immen- ſity of his preſence, ſo he is every where and in all things: bur by the preſence and efficacy of his Grace ; The indwelling of the Sp:rit in Believers, denotes two things. 1. His ruling in them; where a man dwells as Lord, there he doth command and bei rule. ' 2. His abiding in them, and that for ever; hn 14; 16. k If he hath nor rhe ſame Spiric which in the foregoing verle is called, rhe Spirit of God; Ir is called, the Spirit of Chriſt ; beciuk it proceeds from him, and is procured by him; John 14. 26. and 16. 7. Gal. 4. 6. When he 1aith ſuch a one 5s none of Chriſt; he means, that he doth nor peculiar'y belong to Chriſt, he hit no ſpecial intereſt in him, is no true Member of him. As a Mer- chant ſers his Seal upon his Goods, ſo doth Chriſt his Spirit upon his followers, Eph. 1. 13.
10 And it Chriſt /bein you, the body » -« dead bv cauſe of ſin; but the Spirit is life », becauſe of rights ouſneſs 0s
1 Before, he ſaid the Spirit of God and Chriſt dwelt in then; here Chriſt himſelf. Chrift 4wells in Believers by his Spirit. m 5f body ſome underſtand the corrupt and unregenerared yart in the god- ly, asif that wereas good as dead in them. But cthers take the word in its proper ſignification, and think neg more 15 meant thereby than that the Bodies even of Believers, are mortal Boaiz!, ſo they are called in the next verſe. They are ſubje& ro death the bodies of other men. n Some by Spire here do underſtand the Spirit of God. and he is life; that is, he will quicken and raile UP your bodzes again to an immortal life. Others by $piris do under- ſtand the Souls, yet not ſimply and abſolutely conſidered, but 3s renewed by Grace; that is life, or that doth live : 1t lives alife of Grace here, and it ſhall live a life of Glory hereafter. 0 By Righ teowſneſs, here underſtand, either imputed Righteouſne/s , whicl gives us a right and title to Salvation ; or inherent Reghrevune. which is a neceflary condition required in every Perſon, that ſha indeed be ſaved. The ſumm is, if you be Chriſtians indeed, tbo your bodies die, yet your Souls ſhall live, and that for ever; *" your dead Bodie: ſhall nor finally periſh, bur ſhall certainly be ra ted again; ſo it follows in the next verſe.
11 bur if the ſpirit of him that raiſed up Jeſus from, the dead p dwell in you *; he that raiſed up Chrilt {rom the dead, ſhall alſo quicken your mortal bodies 4"; by, his ſpiri: that dwelleth in yon r,
Þ A Periphraſis of God the Father. 1 2. 19. and 10. 18, and yet the Father is |: from the dead; wid. notes on chap. 1. 4. 9 Raiſe tht o Srate of Mortality, and all the atrendants to a glorious 1 life. r 9. d. If you are ſanRified by the Spirir, you ul raiſed up by the Spirit alſo, as Chriſt was. The wicked 310
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