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Rom. 6. vers. 19. 19. Like as ye have given over your members to the service of uncleanness, from one wickedness to an other: even so now also give over your members, to the service of righteousness, that ye may be holy &c.

Rom. 6. vers. 19. 19. Like as ye haue giuen ouer your members to the seruice of vncleannesse, from one wickednesse to an other: euen so now also giue ouer your members, to the seruice of righteousnesse, that ye may be holie &c.

For the better understanding of these words written by the Apostle S. Paul, we must consider that there be two Princes of contrary dispositions ⟨image 36⟩and natures, which have the rule and governance of this world, that is to wit, God, and the Devil; and that never was there man, sithence the first foundation of the world, but was in subjection and under obedience either of the the one, or of the other: And as God is the father of light, the God of all good men, so is the Devil the father & Prince of this world, the Lord of darkness, the king of this age,¹ as saith S. Paul, and ruler of the wicked: And like as all good men fight under the banner of God their Lord, so all ungodly fight under the standard of the Devil their Prince: And even as the just man hath his reward of God, so hath the wicked man his stipend of the Devil. And thus be Infidels, Turks, Jews, and all Heathen people, under the power and dominion of the Devil, under the standard of Satan: and therefore are they not able to think any good, to conceive one good thought, because they fight under his Banner, because they have given over all their members to be ordered of the Devil, without any feeling of good, ⟨image 36⟩without any fear of God. And thus, as I said, do the Turks, thus do the Infidels, thus do all Heathen people at this day, and so did the Jews in the time of Paul, In umbra mortis ambulaverunt,