The application of redemption

But how then comes this other Spirit? He Answers, […]. 3. God […] his Son to take our Nature upon him, who was like unto us in all but sin, and he sent him to take our Nature […]; i. e. For the Removal of sin: And these words are to be referred to those going before, he sent not to those after he condemned sin. As thus, He sent his Son in the similitude of sinful Flesh, for sin, for the removal of sin; and he condemned sin in the Flesh, i. e. In the Virtue of the Sufferings of his Flesh he did abolish and destroy the […] and Jurisdiction of sin, so that sin as we may say hath lost his Cause, and is as we […] to speak, non suited; fails wholly in all the Pleas it can or doth make for any right it hath to the Soul of a sinner: As we say of a man that is Cast in Law, that the Cause went against him, His Cause is Condemned, or his Cause is Damned, his Claim is false and feeble, and hath no force to carry the thing he would. So here, Sin fails of its Claim, is wholly Cast in the Suit that it makes for the Challenge of the Soul: Divine Justice delivered it into its power because it was wronged, but must now deliver it out of the Claim and Authority of sin, being satisfied: And from hence this will be attained, That the Righteousness which the Law requires, may by the Spirit of Christ be wrought in me, […] by way of […], hereafter in perfection.

But how then comes this other Spirit? He Answers, 〈…〉. 3. God 〈…〉 his Son to take our Nature upon him, who was like unto us in all but sin, and he sent him to take our Nature 〈…〉; i. e. For the Removal of sin: And these words are to be referred to those going before, he sent not to those after he condemned sin. As thus, He sent his Son in the similitude of sinful Flesh, for sin, for the removal of sin; and he condemned sin in the Flesh, i. e. In the Vertue of the Sufferings of his Flesh he did abolish and destroy the 〈…〉 and Jurisdiction of sin, so that sin as we may say hath lost his Cause, and is as we 〈…〉 to speak, non suited; fails wholly in al the Pleas it can or doth make for any right it hath to the Soul of a sinner: As we say of a man that is Cast in Law, that the Cause went against him, His Cause is Condemned, or his Cause is Damned, his Claim is false and feeble, and hath no force to carry the thing he would. So here, Sin fails of its Claim, is wholly Cast in the Suit that it makes for the Challenge of the Soul: Divine Justice delivered it into its power because it was wronged, but must now deliver it out of the Claim and Authority of sin, being satisfied: And from hence this will be attained, That the Righteousness which the Law requires, may by the Spirit of Christ be wrought in me, by way of , hereafter in perfection.