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¹In the seventh Chap. he confirmeth this by a certain similitude of marriage, between the husband and the wife. For even as the woman if her husband be dead,² is delivered from the law of the man: not so freed that she may not marry, but rather contrary: now first of all she is freed indeed and truly, that she may marry another man, which she could not do before she was delivered from her former husband: so also our conscience is dead to the law, as long as old Adam liveth in us. But when this old Adam is mortified by the spirit, there is then liberty for both parties, like as I have said there was betwixt man and wife: But the conscience is not free, so that it ⟨image 30⟩cannot at all do any work: but rather so that now he beginneth to cleave unto another, even unto Christ, that it should bring forth fruit unto God.

¹In the seventh Chap. he confirmeth this by a certaine similitude of marriage, betweene the husband and the wife. For even as the woman if her husband be dead,² is delivered from the law of the man: not so freed that shee may not marry, but rather contrarie: now first of al she is freed indeed and truely, that shee may marry another man, which she could not doe before she was deliuered from her former husband: so also our conscience is dead to the lawe, as long as old Adam liveth in vs. But when this olde Adam is mortified by the spirit, there is then libertie for both parties, like as I haue said there was betwixt man and wife: But the conscience is not free, so that it ⟨image 30⟩cannot at all doe any worke: but rather so that now hee beginneth to cleaue vnto another, even vnto Christ, that it should bring forth fruite vnto God.

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