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F my Preaching and Doin deſtroyed, teaching you, that not only the guilt of your fins was removed upon your Juſtification by Chriſt, but the dominion of fin alſo deſtroyed ; And they are things which Fuſtification deftroyeth ; God never ſaying to any Soul, Thy ſins are forgiven thee, without adding, ſim no more. SO as if a juftified ſtate would admit of a going on m a ſettled courſe of ſin, it would build what it deſtroyed. e Now ſhould T, or any one, do any ſuch thing, we ſhould thereby make our ſelves great Tran(- refſors; So as the Apoſtle's Argument here ſeemeth to be the ſame with that Rom. 6. 2. How ſhall we that are dead to fin, live any longer therein? He ftrives at the ſame thing here, viz. to prove that the Doftrin of Juſtification by Faith in Chriſt, could not give a li- berty to any to fin, becauſe it ſhews Perſons made partakers of that Grace, that they are freed, not only from the Guilt, but alſo from the Power and Dominion of Sin, ſo as that none can from it receive any comtort, as to the former, nor find the latter wrought in thems
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that you ſhould not obey the truth b, before whoſe eyes Jeſus Chriſt hath been evidently ſer forth c, crucihed among you d ? |
4 The Apoſtle beginneth the further purſuit of the argument he -
was upon, with a ſmart reprehenſion of them z as men of no under- ſtanding, and b-witched, The word tranſlated bewirched fignifies vitiating the eyes, or ſpoiling the ſight, ſo as that Men cannot diſcern an obvious objett in a due poſition. The meaning is, who hath ſeduced you, who hath ſo corrupted your underſtanding that your acqions are as unaccountable, as the effetts of Witchcraft ? 6 The word tranflated obey, fignifies alſo to believe. In general, it ſignifies to be perſuaded; which may refer either to an affent to the truth, or obedience to the precepts of the Goſpel. c When as Chriſt hath been plainly preached before you,. and his Death, with the bleſſed end, and effetts of it, hath been ſo made known among; you, as if you had ſeen him crucified. Or elſe Chriſt may be ſaid to be crucified among th2m, becauſe it was in their time, fo as they could not but hear of it, and there was no more reaſon for them to
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of the Law, giving me a knowledge of fin, and condemning me for fin. g Am dead to the Law, as to any expeation of being jufti- fed by obedience to it. h Not that T might live in diſobedience
hel. 5» to it, as it is a rule of life, but that T may live more holily unto
God; So as my being dead to the Law, as a covenant of works,
k,4-2- or as f0 any expeation of being juſtified from my obedience to it,
gives me no liberty to fin at all; for this is the end why God hath freed me from the bondage and rigour of the Law, that I might live unto him, and ſerve bim without fear, in Holineſs and Righteouſneſs.
20 I am * crucified with Chriſt ;; Nevertheleſs I live k; yet not I, bur Chriſt liveth in me /, and the
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the Son of God mz, who * loved me, and gave himſelf
for me 7.
i This Epiſtle is much of the ſame nature with that to the Ro- Mans, and the ſubſtance of what the Apoſtle ſaith in the latter part of this Chapter, agreeth much with the ſixth Chapter of that Epiſtlez where we find an expreſhon much like to this, verſe 6. Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of ſin might be de- ftroyed, that henceforth we ſhould nor ſerve ſm. T am (faith the Apoſtle) Crucified with Chriſt, not only by Fuſtification made par- taker of the benefits coming by a Chrift Crucified, but alſo as hav- ing Communion with the death of Chriſt, in the mortification of my Luſts. A figure of which (as he informeth us, Rom. 6.) we have in Baptiſm, verſe 4. Buried with him by Baptiſm into death. k Yet (faith he) I live an Holy, Spiritual Life, tho' dead to the Law, and tho* crucified with Chrift. 7 But I cannot ſay ſo properly that it is , for my motions are not according to my natural pro- penſions and inclinations 3 but Chriſt by his Spirit 1iverh in me, hav- ing renewed and changed me, made mea new creature, and begot new motions and inclinations in me. And tho' 7 live in the fleſh, un yet I live by the Faith of the Son of God: All my natural, moral and civil aCtions, being principled in faith, and done according to the guidance of the rule of Faith in Jeſus Chriſt, » Of whom I am perſuaded, that he loved me, and from that love gave himſelf, to die upon the Croſs for me.
21 1 do not fruſtrate the grace of God o, for * if
' righteouſneſs come by the law p, then is Chriſt dead in
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