, , t6o • ·The Promift . . .... Can. v1. 10, ·or, as the word properly qgntfies, as the . dawning : yet, as the dawning differs· from dark night, they differ thereby ·, from the unfanCl:ified, in whom there is no light, Ifa. viii.2o. Hebr. no dawning. See Rom. vii. 14.·-~ 24. Philip. iii. 2 r. . Howbt.it, foraflnuch as it is a predominant mea ft1re of every grace, t•hat is thus communicate; this work of fanCl:ificatioh cloth iffue in a fiate of death tmto fin, and a fiate of life unto righteoufnefs. Firjl., It iffueth in a fia te of death unto fin, or in mo,rtification. For, by means of that .communicati· on of grace from Chrifi the Head, tho' it is not full, the old man of fin gets his deadly weund . · Th~ reign· ing power of the whole body of fin is defiroy.ed: inaf· much as a reigning principle ofgrace is thereby fet up in the believer; and that ' his feed remaineth in him, and he cannot fin, becaufe he i~ born of God,' 1 John iii. 9· ' Sin fh~ll not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.' And the to· tal pollution, or defilement, through fin, is by the · fame ~ans purged off; inafmuch as the ·refiored i– mage ofGod makes one really and perfonally pure and clean 'in the fight of God, as far as it goes, Tit. iii. 5• ' He faved us by the walhing of regeneration, and renewing of the ·holy Ghofi.' Compare Col. iii. 10. Arid have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.' And thus ·one is put into a fiate of deatp in refpetl: of h!s unr~newedP_art, Col. iii.). Forye are ~ead, Rom. VI. I i. Dead zndeed- untofin . The wh1ch fiate of d~ath is fi.tch ·as a crucified 1nan is in, who being nail' cl to \the crofs, lhaH never come down till he have breath· ed out his lafl:, Gal.... vi. I4· ' The world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. Rom. vi. 6. Our ol& man is crucified with him.' . Secondly, It iffueth alfo in a fiate of life unto righ– teoufnefs, or in vivification. For by means of the fame communication of grace fl-om Cfiri.fi the Head, one is endow'd with infnfed habits of grace, the im· • ' n1editate
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