Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Being thus Dead to the Law, we are truly Dead to sin likewise, and sin to us, but not universally. Dead in regard of its strength, but not in regard of its being. To apply then the premisses. Sin is Dead naturally quoad Reatum, in regard of the guilt of it, that is, that actual guilt of sin, whereby every man is borne a child of wrath, and made obnoxious to vengeance, is done quite away in our regeneration, and the obligations cancelled. Col. 2. 14.

Being thus Dead to the Law, we are truly Dead to sinne likewise, and sinne to us, but not universally. Dead in regard of its strength, but not in regard of its beeing. To apply then the premisses. Sin is Dead naturally quoad Reatum, in regard of the gvilt of it, that is, that actuall guilt of sin, wherby every man is borne a child of wrath, and made obnoxious to vengeance, is done quite away in our regeneration, and the obligations cancell'd. Col. 2. 14.

Secondly, sin is Dead Legally, quoad Regnum, in regard of the dominion and government of it, in regard of the vigorous operation which is in it. First, sin is condemned, Rom. 8. 3. and therein destinated, and designed to death, It shall fully be rooted out. Secondly, in the mean time, it is disabled from a plenary Rule over the conscience, though the Christian be molested and pestered with it, yet he doth not henceforth serve it, nor become its instrument, to be subject in every motion thereof, as the weapon is to the hand that holds it: but Christ and his love bear the sway, and hold the Sterne in the heart, Rom. 6 6. […]. Cor. 5. 14, 15. 1. Pet. 4. 1, 2.

Secondly, sinne is Dead Legally, quoad Regnum, in regard of the dominion and government of it, in regard of the vigorous operation which is in it. First, sinne is condemn'd,