nz Inferences from the , baptized into Jefus Chrifi, were baptized into hi$ death?' 1 (2.) If ye haYe ::t faving interelLin Chrifi's death, ye are dead with him to the world, Col. iii. 1. ' If ye . then be rifen wit~ Chrifi, feek thofe things which are above. Ver. 3· For. ye are dead, ~nd your life i.s hid with Chrifi in God.' The world hated him, and ufed him very unkindly while he was in it : and when-he died, he parted with it for goo,d and all, John xvii. · 1 I. ' Now I am no more in the.world, - -- I come to , thee.' The quietefi lodging that ever the wqrlcl al•, lowed him in it, was a grave: and coming out ,ft·om thence, he never flept another night in it. He tarried indeed forty days in it, after thar : as many days, as the lfraelites years in the wildernefs ; the furnfer an exemplar, the latter a type, of the Chriftian life, from converfion to the removal into the other world : neverthelefs, he was dead to the world fiill ; he con-. verfed now and then with his own, but no·more with the, world. Now, if ye are his, ye are dead with him unto the world too, in virtue of his death; being cru• cijied unto it, Gal. vi. ·14. Union with Chrift by faith, lays finners down in death in Chrifi's grave ; · and fo feparates between them and the world for e– vel~ : and withal, it raifeth them up again wit~ Chrifi~ unto a quite new manner of life; no m9re that man– ner of ~ife which th~y lived before their union with him, than that which Chrifi lived after his refurrecl:i- . on, was the ma.nner of life he lived bef.ore his death. Rom. vi. 4· ' We ~re buried with him by baptifm into death; that like as Chrifi was railed up from the peq'd by the glory of the Father, .even fo we alfo fhould walk in newnefs of life.' Ifyour tit1e to he.a· ven is indeed fettled, by your receiving the atone· . mept, now' is your forty days before your afcenfion into it. Now are ye no more of the world, altho: ye be in it : your trealure 1 and heart are no more there. Ye are no more indwellers in lt, as natives ; but tra· velli~1g
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