14 For the love of Chriſt conſtraineth ns ' we thus judge a, that * if one died for all, all dead 6.
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of men which was in Chriſt before the Foundation of =Y for even then (as Solemn tellech us) Prov. 8. 31. he wat R:; in the habitable parts of the earth, and bis delight was with Fe men; which Love ſhewed it ſelf in time, in his coming ang ;
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ing our Natures, and dying upon the Croſs for us ; 7, , Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his fe 7 -” friends. Or elſeir fignifieth that habit of Love ro Chriſt, which i bs every Believer; for it 15 true of either of theſe, thar they _- , 2 Believer's Soul. a Becauſe (ſaith the Apoftle) we thus _ or reaſon, Thats if one died for al —— Al! here is Interpreted acc ws ing to the various notions of men about the extent of the = of Chriſt, Some by the rerm underſtanding all individuals, ome the E!:, or all thole that ſhould believe in Chriſt ; others ſomes! all Nations, Jews or Gentiles. Be it as it will, that point is » to be determined by this Univerſal Particle, which is as olics þ Scripture uſed in a reſtcained ſenſe, as in a more gener] feake b The Apoſtle here concludeth, That if one died for all, thy 11 were dead; which is to be underſtood of a ſpiritual death, as £9 2,1. And the Apoſtle's Argument dependeth upon this, That all, for whom Chriſt died, had not been dead in fin, there 1 had been no need of his dying for ro expiate their ſin, ang t, <. deem them from the guilr and power of it 3 bur be they wha 44, would, for whom Chriſt died, whether all Individuals, of aj the Ele& only, his dying for them was a maniteft Evidence that they were dead, ;
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end of their life, and live to ſerve themſelves, and gratifie their own corrupt inclinations z bur might make the ſervice of Chi the honour and glory of him who died for them, and alſo roſes. gain from the dead, the end of their lives ; arguing the reaſonibe, neſs of an holy and Chriſtian life, from the Love and End of Crit, in ayes for them z acoording to that, Rom, 14. 7, 8. For no of lzveth to himſelf, and no man dieth to bimſelf 5 for whether we live, ; live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : with; therefore we live, or die, we are the Lord's. This 1s one way by which a Believer fetcheth ſtrength from the death of Chriſt to die un ſin, and from his reſurre&ion to live unto newneſs of Life; je concluding, if Chriſt died, and roſe again for him, that theahe was once dead in treſpaſſes and fins; and therefore he judgeth hin. ſelf obliged, now that he is made ſpiritually alive, not to lieto himſelf, to ſerve his own profit, honour, reputation luſts or iſ. ons,” but to live in obedience to him, and to the honour and glory of him who died to redeem him from the guilt and power of fn and roſe again to quicken him to newneſs of Life and converſation co the honour and glory of his Redcemer.
ordinarily ſignificth ro approve and acknowledge ; and (© it (ynifes here. We oy that js, we regard, we acknowledge no man in the diſcharge of our Officez we regard no man, with reſpettoary excernal fleſhly conſideration, Under which notion he conpre- hends all things nor ſpirjcual, whecher carnal relations, riches, &c, e Nay, tho we have known Chrift after the fleſh 3 not from any ghtol him (for we read not that Paw at any time ſaw Chriſt but 48s 9. when he ſaw him, not according to the fleſh, bur as exalted at the right hand of God) bur by the hearing of the car Pax/ hadknovn Chriſt, as one thar had lived in the fleſh, and who had converſed vith with men for avove thirty years; Yer (faith he) we know him no more, we ſhall neither ſee, nor hear him any more in the fleſh; wc now only know him as he hath a glorious Bogy with which he fitterh at the right hand of God.
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tare the Soul by no other power, than the power of God. We — : ſame expreſſion Gal. 6. 15, The Elpfis of the Verb makes ome cranſlate it, [Let] him be @ new Creatwe, ſupplying ia iO = Bur the next words ſhew us, thar the Apoſtic ou ing of wat is paſt, 01d things are paſſed away, old AffeCtions, Paſſons, Noun: He hath the ſame Soul, bur new qualities, new apprehenſions In his Underſtanding, new inclinations 1n his Will and Afffections, - » thoughts, counſels and deſigns. The Predicate ſhewerh, ch4t = term, be in Chriſt, cannot be underſtood of thoſe thar a'c only _ Church, and turned from Paganiſn tothe Chriſtian Faith3 ( tor 90 are many ſuch in the World, in whom there is no new Creation, and who have in them nothing of this new Creature.)
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16 * Wheretore henceforth know we no man after zy,,, the fleſh dz yea, though we have known Chrilt fie ,, the fieſh,yet now henceforth know we him no mores, [o.1; a Words of ſenſe in Scripture ordinarily ſignifie more than the 14: a& of thar ſenſe which they expreſs ; particularly chis term Ky, Gal. $.6
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