Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 6:2

2. God forbid : How shall we that are dead to sin , live any longer therein .

Be it not, or far be it; he rejects any such Inference or Consequence, as unworthy of an Answer. q. d. Away with all such Doctrines, as under pretence of advancing Grace, do promote Sin, or obstruct a Godly Life. This Phrase is frequent with the Apostle, when he is speaking of any absurdity, vid. chap. 3.4, 6, 31.

By this Particle How, he shews the Impossibility, or the Incongruity of the thing, vid. Mat. 6.28. Gal. 4.9. The following Argument is very convincing, and may be thus form'd. They whose Property it is to be dead to sin, can't any longer live therein, but the justified by Faith, are dead to sin.

They are said to be dead to sin, who don't live under the Power and Dominion of it; who Mortify Sin, and suffer it (so far as they can) to have no Life or Power in it.

Fall into it they may, but live and lye in it they can't. 'Tis not falling into the Water that Drowns a man, but 'tis his lying in it; so 'tis not falling into Sin that Damns a Man, but it is his living in it.