. Conditionary Part, &c. _1 I r· eth your pretenfions to t~Je imputations ~fhis fat~sfaction, to be altogether vam. Nay, of a truth, If ye -have hny faving interefi in the de:1th. of Chrifi, your old man iJ crucified with him, Roin. v. '6. and ye are dead with him, ver. 8. dead , with him to fin, ' to the world, and to the law. . . _, (i.) tfye have a !avi~g interefl i? Chrifi's death, ye are dead ·with him t~ hn, Rom. v1. 10. ' I.n t~at be died, he died unto fin once. Ver. 1 I. Likewite ' reckon ye-alfo yourfelves to be dead indeed tin to fin_.' While our Lord Jefus lived in the world, the fins of all the elect, as to the guilt of therr, hung about him, and made ·him a Man of forrows all along: when he .\vas upon the crofs, they wrought upon him ,mofl: furiouily, flinging him to the very f(ml, till they kil– led him, and got him"laid in the grave. Then they had done their utmofi againfi him, they could do no more. So dying for fin, he died unto it, he \Vas delivered from it: and in his refurrection, he fhook them all off, as Paul ihook the viper off his hand in– to cbe fire, and felt no harm thereby ; rifing out of the grave, even as he will appear the fec01l.d tinie, without fin. Wherefore, ifyou do indeed know the fellowihip of his fufferings, if you really have fellow•' !hip with him in them; death will have made its way ' from Chrifl: the Head-, unto you as his members ; his death unto fin, camiot mifs to work your deatli . unto it alto. If you are dead, indeed, with Chrifi, as ingrafted into him, fin bath got its death's wounds In you ; the bond that knit your hearts and ~your lllfis ·together, is lo9fed; and ye'll be !haking off the vi– perous brood of them int,a the fire, in the daily prac– tice qf mortification. Bur, if ye ,are not dead, but fi:ll living unto fin, h is an infallible evidence, ye are ' none of the members of Chrifi, Rom. vi. 2. ' How fhall we tha't are dead to fin, live atiy lonO'er therein ? Ver. 3· Know ye not, th:lt fo many ~Jus as were H baptized. ,, ·'
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