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. Hence it follows naturally, that faith has no natural or proper vertue in it self to justifie a sinner; for that which has in it self a real virtue to justifie, must answer the Law in all its demands, whereas faith in it self answers to none of them. There is no such thing as…

Qu. 10. How do we in and by them build up our selves in our most holy faith? Answ. By the exercise of that communion with God in Christ Jesus, which in their due observation he graciously invites and admits us to, for the increase of his grace in us, and the testification of his…

(1) Genesis 2:16, 17; Genesis 4:3, 4; Genesis 17:9, 10, 11; Exodus 12:24; Exodus 20; Matthew 28:19, 20; Matthew 26:26, 27; Ephesians 4:11, 12; Revelation 1:13; Revelation 21:3. (2) Genesis 17:10; Exodus 12:23, 24; Romans 6:3, 4, 5; Matthew 26:27; 1 Corinthians 11:25, 26, 27. (3)…

For the words expressly assign two sorts of Elders, whereof some, only attend to rule; others moreover labor in the word and doctrine. Neither does that word, as some would have it, labor in the Word, intend any other labor but what is incumbent on all the Pastors and Teachers o…

Qu. 6. May not such an estate of faith and perfection in obedience be attained in this life, as wherein believers may be freed from all obligation to the observation of Gospel institutions? Answ. No! For the ordinances and institutions of the Gospel being inseparably annexed to…

Q. How else do they differ? A. Justification makes no real change in the soul, as when the judge acquits a man, but makes him never a whit the more honest than before; but Sanctification makes a great change in the soul from sin and corruption to purity and holiness (Romans 6:17…

Q. Are believers able to perform obedience to God? A. They are able by the power of Christ that strengthens them, to do the will of God in some measure of truth, as being now alive from the dead, and created in Christ Jesus to good works (Philippians 4:13; Ephesians 2:10; Romans…

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…

Now faith is instead of eyes to the soul: by Faith Abraham saw the day of Christ, and rejoiced, though it were afar off (John 8:56). The same Apostle says, that there be six witnesses that give light and evidence to our spiritual life in Christ: of which three be in heaven, and…

It is with respect to our wills that we are said to be dead in sin, and alienated from the life of God. And by this change of the will, do we become dead to sin (Romans 6:2). That is, whatever remainder of lust or corruption there may be in us, yet the will of sinning is taken a…

Grotius adds little to what Schlictingius offers in this case. Only he tells us that [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] is taken for those griefs which are commonly the punishment of sin (Romans 6:10). But it is a mistake: [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], in that place, signifies nothing b…

See (2 Corinthians 3:18; chap. 4:4, 6). Neither does it renew, change, or transform the soul into a conformity to the things known, by planting of them in the will and affections, as a gracious saving light does (2 Corinthians 3:18; Romans 6:17; Romans 12:1). These things I judg…

First it brings forth, [in non-Latin alphabet], thorns and briars: see the opening of the words before. In general, I doubt not but all sorts of sins are hereby intended, all unfruitful works of righteousness (Romans 6:21; Ephesians 5:11). And the principal reason why they are h…

When you shall enlarge my heart, &c. Trial 2. If your faith be not a dead faith, it will have fruits: even such as we read of (Romans 6:2), fruits to holiness: I shall instance in three things. (1.) Repentance.

2. That Baptism is a seal of entrance into the Covenant thus considered. It seals the whole Covenant, but by way of initiation; so Doctor Ames in the place that is here quoted, Medul. Lib. 1. Cap. 40. Thes. 5, 6. Baptism is the Sacrament of Initiation, or Regeneration, for altho…

The Rhemists indeede tell us, that when the Church does offer and sacrifice Christ daily; hee in mysterie and sacrament dyeth. Further than this they durst not goe: for if they had said, hee dyed really; they should thereby not only make themselves daily killers of Christ, but a…

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.

Saint Paul does plainly sever these two parts of Christian righteousness one from the other. For in the 6th chapter of Romans (Romans 6) thus he writes, Being freed from sin, and made servants to God; you have your fruit in holiness, and the end everlasting life. You are made fr…

So that to live as if we were at our own dispose, is to defraud Christ of his purchase. Thus we are Christ's by Creation and Redemption; but now if we would be his servants, we must be his by voluntary contract, and spiritual resignation: Yield up yourselves, &c. (Romans 6:13).…

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…

A man's lusts and corruptions are indeed so strongly interested in him, that sin is himself, and his corruptions are his members, therefore when we leave off sin, we are said to live no more to ourselves. And mortification is the greatest violence that can be done to nature, the…

So Paul had, and so the saints in Scripture had. If you have but Paul's faith, that is, a sin-lamenting faith, as (Romans 7:24), a groaning faith (Romans 8:23, 26), a laboring faith (Colossians 1:29), a sanctifying faith (Romans 6), a growing faith (Philippians 3:10–13), and if…

2. See the sin and sinfulness of such a state. Unspeakable is the sin that the unbeliever lies under: all sin lives and reigns, where unbelief lives and reigns; for now the curse reigns in its strength, and sin has dominion (Romans 6:14). A man is in his sins still, if not in Ch…

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…

There is the flesh remaining in every one which lusts against the Spirit (Galatians 5:17). And it adheres to all the faculties of our souls; from where it is called the old man (Romans 6:6; Ephesians 4:22), in opposition to the renovation of our minds, and all the faculties of t…

Where it has dominion, it has the force and power of a law in the wills and minds of them in whom it is. Hereby it requires obedience of them, and they yield up themselves servants to obey it (Romans 6:16). Therefore to this dominion of sin, there is required a consent of the wi…

1. We do not enquire concerning them in whom the reign of Sin is absolute and easily discernable, if not to themselves, yet to others. Such there are, who visibly yield up their members instruments of unrighteousness to Sin (Romans 6:13). Sin reigns in their mortal bodies, and t…

Where these things and the like are found, there is no question what it is that has dominion, and bears rule in the minds of men. This all men may easily know, as the Apostle declares (Romans 6:16).

It cannot make an incursion on the kingdom of Christ, so as to carry away any of its subjects into a state of sin and darkness again. And an interest in this state ought to be pleaded against all the attempts of sin (Romans 6:1, 2). There is nothing more to be detested, than tha…

Envy not their gallantry, their glistering appearances, their heaps of wealth and treasures, they are in the whole vile and contemptible slaves. The Apostle determines their case (Romans 6:17). It is a matter of eternal thankfulness to God, that we are delivered from being the s…

Rom. 6:14. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace. FINIS.

Wherein sin's reign is discovered, in whom it is, and in whom it is not: How the law supports it: How grace delivers from it, by setting up its dominion in the heart. Romans 6:14. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace. By the lat…

But the inference is not good, that therefore it should be unlawful to enter into Church-Covenant: for, first, by the same reason, all promises are unlawful, and all covenants whatever; as the covenant of marriage, the covenant of service, yes and the personal covenant of Grace,…

The conscience of the sinner immediately protests, and likewise the law itself; both forbid him to hope for any forgiveness or pardon whatever; both cry out loudly and persistently that no sinner will find any such thing with God. "It is not possible," they say, "that so great a…

Theology as a complex of spiritual gifts — Extraordinary or ordinary gifts — Ordinary gifts peculiar to the ministry or common to all — Christ the bestower of all gifts (Psalm 68:19; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8) — The Hebrew word signifies both to receive and to give — Christ the a…

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.

That the first work may better be wrought, the Law has two properties (Deuteronomy 28:3, 15). Curse or punishment, which is the first, which punishes the least offence with the wrath of God, to be felt for ever in soul and body; called death (Galatians 3:10; Romans 6:23; Romans…