Of free justification

For as one Sin is reigning, […] another is not reigning: So there ¹is more then one sort of Sinners. For though both the Godly and the Ungodly Sin: Yet not after one and the same manner: For that Man Sins one way, who rushes upon all manner of Wickedness against his Conscience, and wittingly and willingly perseveres in sin without Repentance; of whom it ⟨p. 347⟩is said, John 3. He that worketh ²unrighteousness is not of God; And that man sins another way, who is rather overcome by his infirmity, than yields willingly to the sinful inclinations of his flesh, though sometimes he slips into the evil, that he ³would not: And nevertheless with his mind obeys the Law of God, and endeavouring after Holiness, in the midst of his sins he strives and cries out against them. Therefore I answer with this distinction of the Major; which I deny not to be true in those, who living according to the flesh, wallow in all filthiness without measure or shame: Of whom Paul said expressly; ⁴If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but yet it must be acknowledged after the Example of the same Apostle, that the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in us, may consist with infirmities in the Regenerate. And ofttimes after this manner the Apostle joins the Old Man and the New Man in the Regenerate; the Law of the Members, and the Law of the Mind; the Flesh striving against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the Flesh; as when speaking of himself, he testifies: Therefore I my self with my mind serve the Law of ⁵God, and with my flesh I serve the Law of sin.

For as one Sin is reigning, 〈…〉 another is not reigning: So there ¹