This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...of Christ; from death, by a natural association, he passes, ver. 4, to the resurrection from death, verified bodily in Christ, and to be verified spiritually in each believer; in ver. 5, he clinches the connection of ideas between baptism and burial, death and resurrection, by reiterating it in more direct terms; and, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...of Christ; from death, by a natural association, he passes, ver. 4, to the resurrection from death, verified bodily in Christ, and to be verified spiritually in each believer; in ver. 5, he clinches the connection of ideas between baptism and burial, death and resurrection, by reiterating it in more direct terms; and, ver. 6, is led, in speaking of Christ's death, to recall what kind of a death it was, crucifixion, and that, as his body was crucified, so should our old man, our body of sin, perish, and then we should be emancipated from the service of sin; for he who is dead, or that which is dead, cannot sin. Thus this oblique and somewhat zigzag chain-work of ideas conducts us to the same conclusion as above, that, as the man of sin had been slain once for all, he could not by any possibility rise again to do mischief. It was simply irrational and impossible, therefore, for a Christian to talk of continuing in that to which he had died. 7-11. An amplification of the same thought of the inconsistency of a Christian voluntarily continuing in sin. As the Apostle had showed on the negative side of death the impossibility of living any longer by choice in sin, so now he shows the same impossibility on the positive side of life.--Dead to sin. They could not abide in it or return to it any more; now much more, being alive to righteousness, they could not relapse. They have had therefore two pledges to the faithfulness of discipleship, --death to sin and life to Christ. They were as insensible to sin as the dead are to an object, and they were as conscious of Christ as if he were an integral part of their being, or section of their life. 7, 8. There are two conclusions to the proposition in ver. 6, that " the old man " is crucified; one is, that he who i...
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