This is gathered from these words; they are the servants of corruption. So Romans 6.20.
Reason 1. Because they are overcome and led captive by sinne.
2. Because they give up themselves wholly to obey sinne, Romans 6.16.19.
3. Because they remain in this bondage, although it be the worst of all, with a kind of pleasure; so that they are the servants of sin more, then those are the servants of men, that are gally-slaves: for these mens minds alwayes wish for liberty, but the others are very well pleased in their most servile condition.
Vse 1. This may serve to informe us, how we should stand affected towards such men. For although they seem to themselves to be the only happy men almost, yet they are in truth objects most worthy of pity, and not of envie.
2. To admonish us, more and more to get out of this bondage, by yeelding our selves wholly unto God and his righteousnesse, Romans 6.18,19,22.
Doctrine 6. They that are brought into this bondage, after that they have made profession and confession of the truth, their condition is more deplorable, then the condition of other sinners.
This is gathered from, verse 20,21.
Reason 1. Because their sin is greater then other mens. For where no law is, there is no sin; where the law or the knowledge of the law is lesse, there the sin is lesse: but where the knowledge of Gods law and his will is greater, there the sin is made greater and heavier.
2. Because they do wonderfully dishonour God, while they professe themselves to have known his discipline, and to have had experience of it in some measure, and do afterwards reject it, and prefer sin before it.