1.  He hath by his death and blood procured that this work of sanctification shall be wrought and carried on.  For “he suffered without the gate, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood,” Heb. xiii. 12.  “We are saved by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,” Titus iii. 5, 6.  “He gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works,” Tit. ii. 14.  Thus our sanctification is the fruit of his death, and purchased by his blood.  “He gave himself for his church, that he might sanctify it,” Eph. v. 25, 26.

2.  He dying as a cautioner and public person, believers are accounted in law to be dead to sin in him.  Hence the apostle tells us, Rom. vi. 3-6, that as many of us as are baptised into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death; and that therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; and are planted together in the likeness of his death; yea, and that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  Whence believers are warranted and commanded, verse 11, to reckon themselves “to be dead indeed unto sin;” and therefore sin should “not reign in their mortal bodies to fulfil the lusts thereof,” verse 12.  This is a sure ground of hope and comfort for believers, that Christ died thus as a public person; and that by virtue thereof, being now united to Christ by faith, they are dead to sin by law; and sin cannot challenge a dominion over them, as before their conversion it might have done, and did; for the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth, but no longer.  Wherefore believing brethren “becoming dead to the law by the body of Christ, are married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that they should bring forth fruit unto God,” Rom. vii. 1-4.

3.  Hence it followeth, that our “old man is crucified with Christ, that the body of sin might be destroyed,” Rom. vi. 6.  So that this old tyrant that oppresseth the people of God, hath got his death wounds, in the crucifixion of Christ, and shall never recover his former vigour and activity, to oppress and bear down the people of God, as he did.  He is now virtually, through the death of Jesus, killed and crucified, being in Christ nailed to the cross.

4.  His resurrection is a pawn and pledge of this sanctification.  For as he died as a public person, so he rose again as a public person.  “We are buried with him by baptism, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead, by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life,” Rom. vi. 4; and believers are said to be “planted together with him, in the likeness of his resurrection,” verse 5; “and they shall live with him,” verse 8; “and therefore they are to reckon themselves alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord,” verse 11.  “We are raised up together,” Eph. ii. 6.