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2. They are dead to the Law. ^yFor I through the Law, am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God. Wherein he opposeth the Law against the Law, the new against the old, the Law of Christ, against that of Moses. ^zThis accuseth the accusing, condemneth the condemning Law. The Papists understand this of the ceremonial Law: but Paul plainly expresseth, that the Law moral, which would have been to us a Law mor•all, is put under: we are dead unto it. As Christ at once came over death, and overcame death, et super it, e• superat. So we, in him, are exempted from the condemning power and killing letter of the Law; and by being dead unto it, are alive over it. Indeed ⟨p. 166⟩the Law still abides: as Christ when he rose from the grave, the grave remained still. Pe•er freed from the Prison, the Palsy from his Bed, the young man from his Coffin, the Prison, Bed, Coffin remain still; the persons are delivered. So the Law abides to mortify our lusts still more and more, but our conscience is freed from the bondage of it. We are dead unto it.

2. They are dead to the Law. ^yFor I through the Law, am dead to the Law, that I might liue vnto God. Wherein hee opposeth the Law against the Law, the new against the olde, the Lawe of Christ, against that of Moses. ^zThis accuseth the accusing, condemneth the condemning Law. The Papists vnderstand this of the ceremoniall Law: but Paul plainely expresseth, that the Law morall, which would haue beene to vs a Law mor•all, is put vnder: wee are dead vnto it. As Christ at once came ouer death, and ouercame death, et super it, e• superat. So we, in him, are exempted from the condemning power and killing letter of the Law; and by being dead vnto it, are aliue ouer it. Indeede