Life ofCrace. 423 ly and properly called fin in Scripture,you are changed from it. Now in whatfoever fence a man maybe Paid to bedead, in that fence a man in Chrift is changed from fin, there is fomewhat in hischangeexprefüng that death. Now there is a threefold death, Civil Death three- A Judicial Death. fold. Natural We begin with the judicial fink, as Gods great Work begins in the judgment. t. judicial. There is a judicial death; fo one that is alive now in refpedofnatural life,may yet be faid to be judicially dead, when he is dead in fentence ; when by the judge he is condemned to deaths when he is adjudged to die. So reckon ye your felves dead to fin; make account of this, that now in your judgment there is a fentence paired out againft fin,that itfhallbe flain,that it (hall be mortified; thus your judgment (lands, and thus you lookupon it, as a thing dead in fentence ; andthat is the firi. It isthat in £zek 36. gt. faith the Lord, when1fhatl be pacified to thee, this (hall follow upSn it,; thou (haltjudge thyPelfworthy to be deiiroyed, for all thine inigtíities and abominations. When God is reconciled to a man,which is as much as to fay,when a man is in Chrift : for by Chrift we are reconciled to God, thisfollows uponit,that man comesnow to judge fin tobe a deadly thing,to judge fin to be dead,and to judge himfelf worthy to bedeftroyedfor 'it. He looks on fin as it fhould be looked upon, his Opinion is right concerning it : he accounts itan iniquity, a thing againft that refkitude, againft thatequity, andrighteoufnefs wherewith man sriasonce endowed in theCreation ; and from which fo far ashe fwarves, fofar he is plunged intodeath. As you know thatcurfe was denounced againft man,when he finned he Ihould die : fo he cannot look upon iniquity, upon thatthat is contrary to that righteoufnefs wherein he wasmade, but he looks upon it, ason death itfell, and a deadly thing; he looks uponit as upon an abomination. That look as perlonsthat finnedcapitally were an abomination to the Land, and people amongwhom they finned; as the Scripture fpeaks ofmurtherers, and the like ; the land was defiled if the fentence of death were notexecuted ; fo it is here in theopinion.and judgment of a man thatis in Chrifk,heaccounts this the greateft defilettient,that his foulremains fo far polluted and defiled,'asthere is any life left in fin. That is the firft thing,reckon this then that finisdeadinamediatly ; that is,that you now come to pars (asjudges do) a fentence ofdeath againft fin : and that howfoevcr a Malefactor benot naturally dead, when be is judicially dead ; yet he is in an order to it, the next thing that follows will be tobe cut, off. Sd it is with fin whenaman comes to judgehimfelffor his iniquity, worthy to bedetroyedfor his abominations, this is the next thingthatfollows, he will not reft, till that be Rain and fubdued, till that Málefa&or be condemned to death, and cut offand took out of the way. Here is the firfk thing, herein this change is like death. Secondly,there is a civil death too; fo one that lives naturally,maybedead civilly; z. Civil. fo one that is ander the fubjn9ion andpower ofanother, fucha one is dead civilly. The civil Law accounts any one that is under fubjeaion to be Civiliter martial, as they (peak ; that is, he ism that fence not accounted among living men, he is one dead, becaufehe isnot animated, anda&ed by his own will, but by the will of him that rules him : fo reckonye yourfelvesdead, faith theApoftle. Makeaccount that whenyou are in Chrift, fin isno more to be ruler, and commander, toad, and animate,andquicken you to obey ita lufts,that you fhould beailed, andanimated by it, that as loon as fin'tempts, you fhouldobey prefently: make account in this fence you are dead to fin, that is, fin is dead in you civilly, it hathnot a ruling power ; it cornés not now as, one that bath power to fwayall before it : that is it the Apof;'le faith inthisChapter,6n fhallnothave dominiin; YouhaveanewMafter,a newLord, you are no more underthe rule anddominionof fin,that isthe fecond. Thirdly, there is anatural death', as well as a judicial, and civil death, fothingsare j. Natural: laidto be deadnaturally, twowayes S lmperfe&Iy,2.5Ihchoate. ZPerfedly, Confummate, I i Naturally
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