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Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans
A commentary upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans, written in Latin by M. John Calvin, and newly translated into English by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessary table for the better and more ready finding out of certain principal matters contained in this workA commentarie vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes, written in Latine by M. Iohn Caluin, and newely translated into Englishe by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessarie table for the better and more readie finding out of certayne principall matters conteyned in this worke
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harison and George Bishop, 1583London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harison and George Bishop, 1583
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. 7.
1 Do ye not know brethren (for I speak to them know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the man, whiles he liveth: but if the man be dead, she is delivered from the law of man. 3 So then, if while the man liveth, she take another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the man be dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she take another man. 4 So ye, my brethren, are dead also to the law by the body of Christ, that ye should be unto another, even unto him, that is raised up from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God,
1 DOe yee not know brethren (for I speake to them know the law) that the lawe hath dominion ouer a man as long as he liueth? 2 For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is boūd by the law to the mā, whiles he liueth: but if the man be dead, she is deliuered from the law of man. 3 So then, if while the man liueth, she take another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, shee is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteresse, though she take another man. 4 So yee, my brethren, are dead also to the law by the bodie of Christ, that yee should be vnto another, euen vnto him, that is raysed vp from the dead, that wee should bring foorth fruite vnto God,
Although he had sufficiently (as in such brevity it could be) unfolded the question of the abrogation of the law: yet because it was both a difficult question, and of it self might bring forth many others, he doeth more copiously declare, how the law is abrogated from us: secondly he showeth what profit we get thereby: because whiles it doeth hold us bound without Christ, it can do nothing but condemn us. And least any should thereby accuse the law, he meeteth with the objections of the flesh, and refuteth them: where he excellently handleth a notable place of the use of the Law.