.. 162 The Pr~mife their defilement ; why £hould it be thought firange, · that there Jhould be fuch a benign virtue in the death· and refurrecl:ion of Chrifi the fccond Adam, conform· ing his myllical members unto him therein, to their fanctification : for ' as in Adam all die, even fo in Chrifl £hall all be made alive,' I Cor. xv. 22. The death and refurrection of Chrifi have this virtue, in- . afmuch as he died and rofe .again as a publick perfon, and merit~d this con!J.rmation of his myfiical mem- · bers to his image, Rom. vi. 4··· ;·I2. Eph. ii. s, 6. And they have this effect, as they are .applied to us by the ~pirit. For the cafe of our jufiification an.d fan&ifi- . cation, is much like that of the ddiv~ring one who is a prifoner for debt. When the furety's payment of the debt is legally applied to the prifpner, by the judge fufiaining it as clearing his debt ; in the moment of that application, the prifoner is legally free : he is no inore a prifoner in point of right; tho' fiill in the pri– fon, until that one fent by the judge, apply it to him really, by opening the prifon-doors to him, and fet· ting him at liberty. Even fo the death ofChrifi, and. his refurrection confider'd as the evidence of his corn- . plete fatisfaction, being legally applied by God the Judge, to a finner, upon his believing; they have _an immediate effect on him, confiituting him in a happy relative fiate, injuftification, and new relation to God as his Friend, ·Father, and God: fo that he is thereby freed, even from t,he dominion and pollution of fin 1 in point ' ofright, as well as he .is in fact freed from the guilt ofit: he is, by that applicatfon, legally dead unto fin, 'and alive unto God. Rom. vi. IO. ' For in that he (to wit , Chri/1) died, he died unto fin once; but in that pe liveth, he liveth unto God. Ver. 11 . Likewife reckon ye alfo yourfelves to be dead indeed · unto fin; but alive unto God; through Jefus Chrifi our Lord.' :Now the curfe, which flood as a legal bar to fancHfying influences, in refpeB: whereof, ' The firength of fin is the law,' I Cor. xv. 56/ being thus . quite removed · by the legal applica~ion of the death and
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