Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Of Exhortation, that we manfully set ourselves not only to repress such lusts, but quite also to root them out. Now the old man is mortified, 1. By that firm and constant purpose of changing our life, which is effectually begun in our first repentance, and daily ought to be renewed, and extended to all new emergencies.
2. By the virtue of Christ’s death applied to us by faith, whence our old man is said to be crucified with Christ; and it may be rightly added, with the same nails, that Christ was crucified with. For Christ was fastened unto the Cross, partly because of the guilt of our sins; partly out of the love of the Father to us, that we might be saved: partly out of Christ’s own love to us, whereby he was willing to lay down his life for us. And by the earnest meditation of these things, the power of sin is most diminished in us.
3. By the power of the Holy Spirit, to whom we ought to give up ourselves, in the use of all the means ordained of God, whereby he useth to put forth his powerful working.
For reference, see William Ames on mortification and the cross.
2. By the virtue of Christ’s death applied to us by faith, whence our old man is said to be crucified with Christ; and it may be rightly added, with the same nails, that Christ was crucified with. For Christ was fastened unto the Cross, partly because of the guilt of our sins; partly out of the love of the Father to us, that we might be saved: partly out of Christ’s own love to us, whereby he was willing to lay down his life for us. And by the earnest meditation of these things, the power of sin is most diminished in us.
3. By the power of the Holy Spirit, to whom we ought to give up ourselves, in the use of all the means ordained of God, whereby he useth to put forth his powerful working.
For reference, see William Ames on mortification and the cross.
