Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 6:17

17. But God be thanked, that ye were the Ser[illegible: 3 letters]ts of sin ; but ye have obeyed from the [illegible: 1 word] that form of doctrine which was delivered you .

q. d. But as for you, God be thanked, that though once you were the Servants of sin, viz. when you were ignorant and unregenerate, yet now you are freed from that bondage, and set at liberty from the power and dominion of sin.

This Phrase expresseth the efficacy of Divine Doctrine in the hearts of Believers; it changeth and fashioneth their hearts according to its likeness, 2 Cor. 3.18. Hence in Iames 1.21. 'tis called an ingraffed word, it turnes the heart and life of the Hearer into its own nature, as the stock doth the Cion that is ingraffed into it. The Doctrine of the Gospel is the Mould, and the hearer is the mettall, which when tis melted and cast into the Mould receives its form and figure.

Marginal references: Gr. the mould of doctrine into which you were delivered.