. of Santli}ication ~ . . Y(}i ;.niediate prinCiples of gracious actions: the law is writ– - ten in his heart; and his heart is circumci(ed to love the Lord. And thus he is put into a _fl:ate oflife unto righreoufnefs, in rdpeB: of lil_is renewe~ part;, being 'dead indeed unto fin, but alive unto God, thro Jefus Chrifi our Lord,' Rom. vi. i 1. So faith the Apofile, of himfelf, Gal. ii. 20. ' · I am crucified with Ghrifi : neverthelefs I live.' And this fia te of life is fuch, as a man is in for the common actior1s oflife, who is not , only quickned, but rifen and come forth of the grave., Col. ii. 12. ' Ye are rifen with him through the faith of the opctation of God .1 Rom. vi. 4• 'That like as • I Chriil: was raifed up by the glory of the father, even fo we alfo lhould walk in newnefs of life.' And it is an . , eternal life ; for the grace communicate from Cbrift t.o the believer, for that effeCt,' Shall be in him a well of water fpringing up into everlafiing life,' John iv. 14. ~ow this death unto fin, and life unto righteoufi1efs fpring from our communion with Chrifi in his death' and rcfurrecHon. Thefe lafi have in · them a power and virtue, to .r:ender his myfiical members ·conform– able to him in them. They have a power and virtue to caufe in them a dying unto fin, as Chrifi died, for fin, a violent death, lingering, and painful, yet vo– l~ntary: and a tHing from (In to a new manner oflife, continued during their abode in this world, and per– fected in glory; even as he rofe fi·om the dead, to a new manner oflife, continued till his ajcenfion, Philip. iii. Io. ' That I may know him, and the power of his refurrection, and the fellowlhip of his fufferings,. being made conformable unto his . death, Rom.· vi. 4· ·' Therefore we are buried with him by bap– tifm into death : that like as Ghrifi was niifed up by the glory of the Father, even fo we alfo lhould walk in newnefs ot life.' Ver. ·s. For if we have been plan– ted together in the likenefs of his death, we fhall'be alfo in the likenefs of his refurrection." Since there is in Adam's fin and death, a malignant , virtue, con– forming hi s natural offspring unto him, therein, to L ~ their '
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