Ver. >í . the .Epifile to the Romans, a # death ; fo till we depart from fnne, we cannot be railed up and renewed to righteous life.S condly,as Chrilis death and refurre &ion be joyned together fo ottrdeath to firíne is ever accompani- ed with a new and unblamea!>le life which can no more be fevered from mortification, then the refürre&ion o Chrift can bee fevered from his death and therefore our Apoille hath trudyaf- firmed before, that filch as bee dead to fìnne cannot live in it, verr 2. for now they lead their lives according to God. T I bave beard you fpeake of the likeneJ between agraffe and the elet`l, and wbat we are to learnt by it, fbew mee now in thú lik nef e what dimilitude and unlil - nefretbere ú. Si t. Ytis a litre truth, that no fìmili- tude cloth hold in all things; it is fuflici- ent to hold in that for Which it is ap- plyed ;as in this prefent fimilkude which is brought to fhew,that as a flip paffeth from one tree to another, and hath life from that flock into which it is Taft planted, fo the ele& palling from Adam to Chri It are partakers of his Spirit: bu t as in every other fimilitnde, there isa diflmilitude, fo in this likeneffe there is an unlikeneffe, and it dorh confiftin two things.Firfl,the flip or geaffe is ta- ken from a good tree and fanned to a Wilde. Secondly,it retaineth Hill his old nature though it be planted into a next flock : now it is not fo in this fpirituaIl planting of men into Chrift. For we are plucked from an unfruitftrll tree and wilde Olive,even from the corrupt na- ture of Adam, and are ingraffed into Chrift as a moft noble flock, a tree of righteoufneffe, whole very leaves are wholfome:alai we put off our old na- ture which we had before,and leave the affe &ions which fpring of our birth- corruption,a nd are partakers of the fpi- rit ofChrift,whofe nature and proper- ties we put on. Rom. 12. t 4. Ti at. When may ive be raid to leave off our old nature and affellions of finne,and by what means are we beff furthered to it? S t L. When we begin perfe&ly to know our fibres, that whatfoever Corn- Meth ofour nature and is in us without e ! Chrift, is naught and vicious, and are a ¡ moved to be difpleafèd with it, and to Iabhorre itwith an earneft and confiant 'endeavour to leave and forfake whatfo- ever is from our corrupt nature: where- unto we are midi furthered and hol- pen by the faithfull and fruitfuIl medita- f don of Chrifis painefull death 3 when we doe confider the fhame and bitter - neffe thereof, to be occafioned by our owne finnes, is will caule a mans heart to rife againft them asamans heart a -: rifethagaitft his enemy, provoking us Ipeedily to (hake and call them off, which call our beloved and bleffed Savi- our into filch a bloody agony, and hell offorrowes : for who can beleeve that Ghrift was made a curie for our firmes, and yet fill live in the love and fervice of finne? T rnf. Wbn may it be laid of tat, that we have put on the nature and properties of Cbriff, into whom we are newly planted? S i L. When we doe feele wrought in us by his Spirit filch feelings and af- fe &ions as he had,putting on like mer- cy, love,faith, meeknefs,.patience, long- Coffering, joy, goodneffe, temperance, and kindneffe, as the man Chrift had; being meek and lowly as he was, &c. DIALOGUE IIII. Verdes 6, 7. Knowing that Chit our old :wan it crucified with him,that the body elfin might be de= flroyed, that henceforth one fhould nntferve fin, for be that it dead it freedfro,m fin. Ttmoaxèus. VVWhat it the fob fiance ofthis Text? S i L. It rehearfeth the prin. cipallargument to prove that beleevers are dead to fin,taken from their Com- munion with Chrift and his death, Ewa bim.] Secondly, it men tioneth the kind of death by which he merited for them the fpirit of fan&ification, by the death ofthe Crolfe,[Crtecifaed ]Thirdly, it layeth forth the end of our fan&ifica. tion,which is the deftru&ion of finne, [That the body offtnne might be deft rayed.] Fourthly,the duty offan&ified perlons, Q2 [that
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