Fleſh) which only tinccrely anfwers to vil God pagures iN ht, tiilm. 4 7.e, In the pretence of God, with whe: Comorot fant to do 1n Baptiſm, and who alone i© the fudoc ot Content, and knows whether it be good and fincer, Or not Cr, fiir fs God 1 to God ; and then it relates to ano, and wintics thy ant er | Engagement of Conſcience to be made to God. 6 = words are to be joyned to the Verb {no and the rot he We rd to be read in a Parcenthefis, according? to ove V7an! let fon the ſenſe is, That Baytiſm ſaves vs by the Faith or Ul Leh rection, or by Virtue derived from Chriitt's lojuroolth nr, wi which is comprehended his Death and Sutferings; or the fe 7 joyned to anſwer, ſupplying wich is, and then without w Parcin fis, the Text runs thus, the Ariner of 2 ood Oar cen nn ich
by the Relurre&ion of Chriſt, and the meaning is, That #4 Afr: a £ood Conſcience towards God, 15 by tlic Refi in of tt; as the Foundation of our believing the Promiſe 09 1 on nete ane Free-Grace, in as much as it teſtifics God to br ©i; {rite tos
Sm, and Chriſt to have tully overcome 5.n, the Devil, 7c. For \\ hcre this Faith is not, there can be ng 396 Conſcience, nor any fincere anſwering what God requircs Oi us in Baptiſm: If Men do not believe the Satisfattion of Divine Juſtice by Chriſt's Death which 1s evidenced by his ReſurreRion, they will not cloſe with the Offers of his Grace, nor engage themſelyes to ke the Lord's, Sec I Cor. 15, 17, and this Epiſtle, Chap. 1. 3.
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* Sec Rom. 8. 34. /leb. 1.3. This 1s added as another ground cf Faith, and 4 good Conſcience. © Sce Rom. 8. 338. Fjb. Col. 1. 16. and 2. 10. d Iz. By his Father, to whom tn: wwe! ing all things to Chriſt 1; cliewhere aſcribed, 1 Cor. i 5, 20. 7
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e The Apoſtle having in the former Chapter exhorted Belicyers to patient bearing oft Atriictions by the Example of Chrift, «er. 18. proceeds in this to perſwade them to improve the Crofles they bore outwardly to inward Mortification. Chriſt's Death 1s propoted to us in Scripture as an Exemplar both of eternu! Mortrfication in bearing Reproaches, Perſecutions, g&rc. this the Arofih protecute: in the former Chapter ; and of internal in the defitovin> the Boo « of Sin; this he exhorts to in this Chapter, and indeed dr.1%% < 1 5 Argument from Chrift's Death, not only as the exemplar. ut ficient and meritorious Cauſe of our Mortification, and which hat: a real Influence upon it, in that Chriſt by his Death did rot only merit the Pardon of Sin, but the giving the Spirit, wherchy Corrun- tion might be deſtroyed, and our Natures renewed. f iz. not Ji. ly as an Exemplar of Patience and Submiſſion tc the Will of God but for the taking away of Sin, both in the Guilt and Power of > and that he might be the Procurer as well as Pattern of our Morti. fication. g In his Human Nature, as Chap. 3.18. þ Streyosthen and fortifie your ſelves againſt all Temptations, and unto the Morti- fication of your Luſ}s with the Conſideration of theſe Ends. 2nd the mighty Efhcacy of Chriſt's Death, He ſufferinz in his Fleſh, 3. e. in his Human Nature, that you might fuffer in our Fleſh, 7, e. in your ſinful corrupt Nature : Or, (which comes to the fame) with the ſame Mind which Chriſt had, who, in his Death, aimed not on- ly at the Pardon of your Sin, but the Deftruction of it, and the Renovation of your Natures : Or, arm your [elves with the ſame Mind. viz. a purpoſe of ſuffering in the Fleſh, z. e. ot dving {piritually with Chriſt in the Mortification of your Fleth, K-77. 5. 5, 5. as Chriſt diced and ſuffered in the Fleſh, fo reckon that you, by the Virtue of hi: Death, muſt dic to Sin, and crucifie veur beth, with its Affection: and Lufts, Gal. 5. 24.or elſe what the /are Mind 1s, he declares in the following clauſe. 7 Or rather, t/.4t the Greeb word here ſeems rather to be explicative than caſual. #4 7. 2, The Old Man, his cor- rupt Fleſh (Fleſh being taken here in a different ſenſe from what it was in the former part of the Verſe) he that 15s tpiritually dead wit!; Chriſt, whoſe Old Man is crucified with hum. / From finnins willins!y and delightfully, and yiclding himſelf up to the Power of Sin: com- pare Rom. 6. which explains this : what Peter here call> 'uffering the Fleſh, Pauls there calls a being dead to Sin, ver. 2, 11. and what Peter calls a ceaſing from Sin, Paul calls a living no longer in Sin, ver. 2. and a being free from it, ver.7. And this may be the Mind, or Thought with which they were to be armed, that they being dead with Chritt to Sin, ſhould not live any longer in it; having their Fleſh crucified ſhould not indulge its Affettions and Luſfts. :
2 * That he no longer ſhould live the relt of }ys time in the fleſh 7, to the luſts oft men », bur to the - will of God o.
m i. e. In the Body, meaning his natural. Life. Fleſh is here ta ken, in a third ſenſe different trom the two formet ; fo Gal. 2. 20, Phil. 1. 22. n By the Luſts of Men, he means the corrupt Defires and ſinful ways of carnal Men, to which they were not to conform themſelves, or make them the Rule of their living, Rom. 12. 2. 1 Cor. 3. 3. and Col. 2. 8. Tit. 1. 14. o The holy Will of God re- vealed fo us in his Law (which is the Rule by which we are to walk) in oppoſition to the Luſts of Men; we are to live not as Mcn wou'ld have us, but as God commands us,
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