) You may compare this with that Romans 6. where this objection is made, If there be a ' promife of pardon, a~d o.f Grace, ~hrough chrijl, then belikewemay ltve as we ltfl:?No, faith the Apo!He, doe you but beleeve thofe . promifes ofgrace, and the care iseafiefor the refi; In the 1,2,3. Verfes, What foa!l wefay then Rorrt 6.r,1,J• Shall we continue injinnethatgracemay abormd-: - Godforbid: Shall we that are dead toJinne, live . yt-t the·nin r: Knowyou not, that tU many ,u are hapti:ud intolef:u Chrifl, an baptized into hu death~ The meaning is this, ifonce you re~ ceive Iefas chri(l;and the pardon and remifiion of finnes through him, you cannot be fo baptized into him:;but you mull: be baptized into his death; Thatis,ofnecdiitie finne mull: be cru– cified in you, you mufi be dead to·finne, as he was dead; you cannot bebaptized into himfor juil:ification,butyou mufi be baptized Iikewi[e for mortificationof the £le.fh, and for re{ilrre– cliontonewnelfe oflif€; Knowyounot, that a!! .that are !Japtized into Jefus Cbrift, that is, Jhat are baptized into him for i·econciliation with God, af neceffirie theymufi be alfobaptizedin– to his dettth? Therefore, faith he, you are dead to finne, by being thus baptized withChrift, it is impoffible you fhould --live in it. So, I fay, he thathath the firongefl: Faith, he that beleeves in' the greateft degree the promifes ofpardon and remiffion, I dare boldly f.1y, he hath the holiefl: heart, and the holieft life : For that is the roote of it, it arifeth from · C c4 that He that hath thcGroog('{!: Faith, haththe holicfi life.
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