On Romans 6:12 | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 17, 1858

On Rom. vi, 12.

As the believer is dead to siu, how shall he live

any longer in the practice of it? That view of the glory of God, of the holiness and excellency of the law, and his own guilt and danger, which, as the effect of regeneration, convinced him that he needed the salvation of Christ, and made it precious to his heart, led him also to repent, and to abhor all sin. This change, begun in convictions, always humbling, and often alarming, was more completely effected by further discoveries of the mercies, and experience of the comforts of redemption, so that love and gratitude to the divine Saviour, and other evangelical principles, concur with hatred of sin, to mortify his affections, its pleasures and interests, and to cause him to separate from iniquity, as a dead man ceases from the actions of life.