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3. His blood cleanseth sin, in obtaining at Gods hand a Spirit of Sanctification, which makes the death of the Head, reach to the lowest Members of the body, as when the head dies, all the Members die, so the death of Christ having obtained the Spirit of God from him, if he our head die, then we ⟨p. 42⟩shall die to sin: as the resurrection of Christ procures vivification, so the death of Christ, mortification, Gal. 4.4, 5.

3. His bloud cleanseth sin, in obtaining at Gods hand a Spirit of Sanctification, which makes the death of the Head, reach to the lowest Members of the body, as when the head dies, all the Members die, so the death of Christ having obtained the Spirit of God from him, if he our head die, then we ⟨p. 42⟩shall die to sin: as the resurrection of Christ procures vivification, so the death of Christ, mortification, Gal. 4.4, 5.

Obj: If sin be always mortified where it is pardoned, how comes it to pass that godly men fall so often into the same sin? Doth not David confess that there was a way of lying in him, Psal. 119.29: Remove from me the way of lying; which implies it was not one act, but a way, a course that he walked in sometimes; so Isaac, Gen. 26. told the same Lye, both to the Philistines, and Abimelech; so it was with Jonah, he was froward before he went to Nineveh, and froward afterward; how is it then, that sin may be cleansed and yet renewed, and if renewed how cleansed?

Obj: If sin be always mortified where it is pardoned, how comes it to passe that godly men fall so often into the same sin? Doth not David confesse that there was a way of lying in him,