Matthew Poole and continuators on Galatians 2:20

20 I am crucified with Christ ; Nevertheless I live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me , and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God , who loved me, and gave himself for me .

This Epistle is much of the same nature with that to the Romans, and the substance of what the Apostle saith in the latter part of this chapter, agreeth much with the sixth chapter of that Epistle; where we find an expression much like to this verse 6. Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. I am (saith the Apostle) Crucified with Christ, not only by Iustification made partaker of the benefits coming by a Christ Crucified, but also as having Communion with the death of Christ, in the mortification of my lusts. A figure of which (as he informeth us, Rom. 6,) we have in Baptism, verse 4. Buried with him by Baptism into death.

Yet (saith he) I live an Holy, Spiritual Life; though dead to the Law, and though crucified with Christ:

But I cannot say so properly that it is I, for my motions are not according to my natural propensions and inclinations; but Christ by his Spirit liveth in me, having renewed and changed me, made me a new creature, and begot new motions and inclinations in me. And though I live in the flesh,

yet I live by the Faith of the Son of God: All my natural, moral and civil actions, being principled in Faith, and done according to the guidance of the rule of Faith in Jesus Christ.

Of whom I am perswaded, that he loved me, and from that love gave himself, to dye upon the cross for me.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 6.6. [illegible: 1 word] 5.24.; [illegible: 1 word]. 1.4. [illegible: 1 word] 5.2. [illegible: 1 word] 14.