Romans 6

2. A justified person is redeemed à Dominio, from the power and regency of sin, though not the presence. Sin may furere, but not regnare, it may rage in a child of God, but not reign: lust did rage in David, fear in Peter, but it did not reign; they recovered themselves by repen…

Does sin prevail? He has promised to take away its kingly power (Romans 6:14). O the heavenly comforts which are distilled from the alembic of the promises; but who has a right to these?

Give battle to sin, it is a most just war, God has proclaimed it. In fact, he has promised us victory, sin shall not have dominion, Romans 6. No way to peace but by maintaining a war with sin, Pax nostra Bellum contra Daemonem, Tert.

I was held before conversion (says Austin) not with an iron [reconstructed: chain], but with the obstinacy of my own will. Sin is the enslaver; sin is called, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a law (Romans 7:23), because it has such a binding power over a man: And it is said, 〈 in non…

Grace, though it does purify nature, does not perfect it. Objection. But does not the Apostle say of believers that their old man is crucified (Romans 6:6), and they are dead to sin (Romans 7:11)? Response. They are dead, first, spiritually; they are dead as to the Reatus, the g…

Many people aspire after the kingdom of glory, but never look after grace; but these two which God has joined together may not be put asunder: The kingdom of grace leads to the kingdom of glory. 1. I begin with the first thing implied in this petition, Your Kingdom come: It is i…

Sin unrepented of ends in a tragedy. Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages (Romans 6:23). What is there in sin then, that men should continue in it?

All this was to do away our sin; view sin in Christ's blood and it will appear of a crimson color. Sixthly, look upon sin in the dismal effects of it, and it will appear the most horrid prodigious evil (Romans 6:23). The wages of sin is death, that is, the second death (Revelati…

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh. The new creature is said to be dead to sin (Romans 6:11). He is dead as to the love of sin, that it does not bewitch; and as to the power of it, that it does not command.

2. It signifies, that every man that looks for salvation by Christ, must give himself to God, and all that is in him. So Paul exhorts, Romans 6:13. Give yourselves unto God, and your members weapons of righteousness.

For your soul cannot live, whilst your sins, the old man, that is, your corruptions do live; but they must die, and be buried, and then your soul lives: and whilst they live, your soul is dead, and far from the life of grace, which is in Christ Jesus. All this is affirmed at lar…

We see then, that merciful promise of Christ is ever made good, Seek and ye shall find, Matthew 6. None ever sought God, but found: We may seek our own pleasures, and live loosely, and be deceived, and hear that fearful question, What profit have ye now of these things? Romans 6…

The third thing which follows sin is punishment, and that is death. So Paul says, The stipend of sin is death (Romans 6:23): where, by death we must understand a double death, both of body and soul. The death of the body is a separation of the body from the soul.

Reason 2. Infants baptized and regenerate, die the bodily death before they come to the years of discretion: therefore original sin in them is sin properly; or else they should not die, having no cause of death in them: for death is the wages of sin, as the Apostle says (Romans…

Scripture directly condemns merit of works. (Romans 6:23) The wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The proportion of the argument required that Saint Paul should have said: The reward of good works is eternal life, if life eve…

But by regeneration, this disordered soul is set right again; sanctification being the rectifying and due framing — or as the Scripture phrases it, the renewal of the soul after the image of God (Ephesians 4:24) — in which self-dependence is removed by faith, self-love by the lo…

And on the contrary, there faith is termed a believing to the salvation of the soul: and both note out the final event and consequent of each, and salvation of the soul to be the end of faith, when men continue and go on to believe, until their faith arrives at, and attains this…

For the ages of euery sin is death. Rom. 6. 23. And, Cursed is euery one, that continueth not in all things, that are written in the booke of the law, to doe them.

2. If the believer has to do with corruption, with the Devil and with many enemies; is it not strong consolation that our Lord is risen and up, that the prince of this world is judged, that Satan is trodden under foot, and that he shall and must reign till all his enemies be mad…

2. In this respect that they cannot fall into that sin which leads to death, as is clear (1 John 5:17-18). And 3. In this respect, that they [reconstructed: cannot so sin as to lie or be under the reign and dominion] of sin, as is evident (Romans 6:14). The Believer delights in…

It's said (Matthew 22:5), when the invitation comes, that some made light of it, but faith, on the contrary, is a laying weight on it, and an entrusting of ourselves to God on that ground. It's called (Romans 6) a delivering up of ourselves to the word, and to him in it; it's ev…

If this be not, Christ will be to you as if He had never suffered. Secondly, it calls for holiness and mortification of sin; this is much pressed (Romans 6:2-14) by this same argument — to wit, that seeing Christ died for believers, we should die with Him, that being the thing w…

Third, or that they believed not, or that their faith was not counted to them for righteousness, as it is with us (Genesis 15:5-6; Romans 4:3-8; Psalm 32:1-2)? Fourth, indeed, they believing in the Messiah to come were no more under the law and the dominion of sin than we are (R…

Answ. 1. We are to make believers know if they believe not, and walk not worthy of Christ, in all holy duties; their faith is a fancy, and a dead faith, and the wrath of God abides on them, and they are not believers. 2. Though they be believers, wrath must be preached to them,…

I know your works and your labor (1 Thessalonians 1:3). Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope: 1. We are not dead in supernatural works, and mere blocks (Romans 6:11). We are alive to God in Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:1).

No, but to condemn it, as it follows — that is, to cast and overthrow it in its power and plea against us, that instead of sin's condemning us he might condemn sin, and that we might have the righteousness of the law (verse 5). This phrase 'for sin' is like to that in Romans 6:1…

And because the justification of himself which Christ spoke of as looked for from God was to be made at his resurrection (as has been said), therefore Paul here puts a 'rather' upon his resurrection. And further to establish this: as you heard before out of Romans 6:10 that in r…

You would think yourselves secure enough, if you were ascended into heaven. As Heman said of his condition, that he was free among the dead, that is, he reckoned himself (in his despair) free of the company in hell, as well as if he had been there; thinking his name enrolled amo…

Thirdly, a prevention of an objection or doubt that might here arise. For might some man say, All unrighteousness is sin, and every sin is a sin to death, and the wages of every sin is death (Romans 6, last verse). And therefore if the promise extend only thus far, to procure pe…

And truly there is a certain kind of conformity even in this very point, between the Lord Jesus and every servant of Christ; as he is weak, so are we; as he dies, so do we; as he is in his greatest debasements, and advancements, so it is with us. And hence it is that you read th…

Now the baptism of Christ agrees with ours as to the general nature of it. Baptism is our initiation into the service of God, or our solemn consecration of ourselves to him; and it does not only imply work, but fight (Romans 6:13): Neither yield your members as instruments of un…

2. Feel the virtue of it in heart and conscience. In heart, by our dying to sin, then we are planted into the likeness of his death (Romans 6:5): They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof (Galatians 5:24). Who his own self bore our sin…

Life euerlasting is of grace. Rom 6:23. To auoide any euill is the least good, and euery good is of God.

For the most that professe Christ, take and challenge to themselues, a licentious libertie, to liue and doe as they list: and this kind of libertie, is flat bondage. But they that are seruants of Christ indeed, should take heede of this bondag[•]: For being free from sinne, they…

The stipend of euery sinne is death. Rom 6:23. If we were perfectly sanctified, and consequently fulfillers of the law in this life, then Christ should not be a Sauiour, but an Instrument of God, to make vs our own Sauiours.

They which turne to God, and believe in Christ, reape foure benefits hereby. The first is, that no sinne shall have dominion ouer them, Rom 6:14. Here marke by the way, that they which are in Christ, cannot wholly fall from grace.

And hence arises another deliverance from the bondage of human traditions, as Paul says, If you be dead with Christ from the elements of the world, why are you burdened with traditions? (Colossians 2:20). The fourth deliverance is from under the tyranny and dominion of sin (Roma…

Answer: the common received opinion in schools, that some sins are mortal, others venial of their own nature, is a witless distinction. For if all sins deserve death, as Paul teaches (Romans 6:23), either venial sins are no sins, or they must needs deserve death. Moses says, tha…

Both which are necessary in the church of God. Catechisms have a necessary use, both in regard of the simple, who are to be fed with milk, being but babes in Christ; and of the learned who are strong men in Christ, that they may have some rule, whereby to try the spirits, conson…

For he shall not resemble those that are delivered from death, and yet must die nevertheless afterwards, because he rose again to live eternally. For as Saint Paul says, (Romans 6:9) He can die no more, death can have no more dominion over him. And yet we must remember that the…

Where it is added, from hence forth, it seems it should rather be referred to the perpetuity of justice and doctrine, than to the eternity of the kingdom; to the end we should not think his laws resemble those of Kings and Princes, which continue in comparison but three days, or…

For “the kindness and love (φιλανθρωπία) of God our Savior toward man,” (Titus 3:4,) “has appeared unto all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly,” (Titus 2:11-12.) And so Paul, when he wishes powerfully to e…

This is accomplished by a free adoption and the forgiveness of sins, by which he reconciles to himself those who were unworthy. In a word, the kingdom of heaven is nothing else than “newness of life,” (Romans 6:4,) by which God restores us to the hope of a blessed immortality. H…

We have already assigned a special reason. He received the same baptism with us, in order to assure believers, that they are ingrafted into his body, and that they are "buried with him in baptism," that they may rise to "newness of life," (Romans 6:4.) But the end, which he here…

God sometimes invites us to repentance, when nothing more is meant, than that we ought to change our life for the better. He afterwards shows, that conversion and “newness of life” (Romans 6:4) are the gift of God. This is intended to inform us, that not only is our duty enjoine…

But as the Greek preposition ἀπό "the Greek word which we have translated by" does not properly relate to an agent, some explain it, that Wisdom is acquitted by her children, and is no longer under obligation to them, in the same manner as when an inheritance is transferred to a…

The sum of the whole is, that for none but him who has fought lawfully is the crown prepared; and especially, that none will be a partaker of the life and the kingdom of Christ who has not previously shared in his sufferings and death. In the word baptism the force of the metaph…

Now Christ here places first in order his death and resurrection, and afterwards the fruit which we derive from both. For whence come repentance and forgiveness of sins, but because our old man is crucified with Christ, (Romans 6:6,) that by his grace we may rise to newness of l…

For all live to him. This mode of expression is employed in various senses in Scripture; but here it means that believers, after that they have died in this world, lead a heavenly life with God; as Paul says that Christ, after having been admitted to the heavenly glory, lives to…

For since the shaking which he mentioned was appalling, and since that conflagration of the human race was terrific, he is about to show that the first-fruits must be offered in his own person, after which the disciples ought not to be displeased at feeling some portion of it. H…