Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ…Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ…

¹Christ and sin, may dwell in the same subject at the same time; yea Christ may live, where sin doth dwell; Christ liveth in me; sin dwelleth in me, ²saith the Apostle; but Christ and sin cannot both live, and reign together, in the same subject at the same time. Caesar and Pompey might better have lived and reigned together, than Christ and sin; where either of these lives, it reigns, and both cannot reign together; If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin.

¹Christ and sinne, may dwell in the same subject at the same time; yea Christ may live, where sinne doth dwell; Christ liveth in me; sinne dwelleth in me, ²saith the Apostle; but Christ and sinne cannot both live, and reign together, in the same subject at the same time. Caesar and Pompey might better have lived and reigned togeher, than Christ and sinne; where either of these lives, it reigns, and both cannot reign together; If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sinne.

1. 1Note.
2. 2Gal. 2.20. Rom. 7.17.

This body (to wit) sin, whilst alive ⟨p. 91⟩rules and reigns, as a Husband, as a Lord and Master, and is obeyed freely and willingly, (with the consent of the whole will,) so much that phrase of the Apostle,¹