i fo Inferences from the . Char. 3· The old man is crucified in them alJ 1 Gal. v. 24. ' They that are Chrifi's have crucified the flefh with the affections and lufis.' ' Therefore I · fay to you in the words ,of the Apo1Ue, Rom. viii. 1 3· ' If ye live after the flefh:, ye fhall die : but if ye. through the Spirit do mortify the dee4s of the body,· ye l11alllive.;' When our SaviQur hung on the crofs he hung there as reprefentative of all that are his, ·tvith all their fins on him by imputation, that ' the , body of fin/might be defiroyed,' in pis ftifferings for it, Rdtn. ;vi. 6. He hung there as the efficient meri:. torious caufe of their mortification, that by his death: he might defiroy the power of death in them, which appears not iq. any thing more, than in Jiving lufis- · preying on their fouls, Hof. xiii. 14~ '' 1 will redeem · 'them from death : 0 death, I will be thy plagues.' · See Tit. ii. 14. Rom.o vi. 6, 7· Eph. v. 2S; 26. And he hung there as the exemplary capfe of their mortifi.; · cation ; fo that all who are his, and have finned after the /imilitude of Adam's tranfgreffion, are likewife' . crucified and die to fin, after the fimilitude .of his cru– cifixion anq death, being crucified with him, Gal. ii~ 20. Planted together (with him) in the likene/s ofhii death, Ram. vi. 5· the fel!owjhip ,of his fufferings n1aking them conformable unt~ his death, Phil. iii~ Io. Will you thep live after the flefh, not wrefHing' againfi, but fulfilling the lufis thereof; living in. fin, ~nd to fin, infiead of being mortified to it; and yet pretend that the fatisfaB:ion of Chriil is imputed to you for righteoufnefs? Truly, you. may, on as good grounds, fay, that the .b'lood of Chrifi £hed for you, bath proven ineffecrual; and, that he bath fo far miffed his aim and defign, in fu.ffering for you; or, that he . · ' died for you, that you might live in your fin, without · danger. Thefe would 'make a bla fphemous profe.ffion. Accordingly,your prefumptuous finfullife and praCtice is a courfe ofpraCl:ical blafpbemy againfr the Son of God, making him the minifter of fin;. and,evidenc- , ct~ •'
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