The application of redemption

To the like purpose is the meaning of that place also, 1 […]. 4. 6. For, for this end was the Gospel preached to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. In the first Verse, from the Death and Sufferings of our Saviour, he persuaded ⟨p. 397⟩those to whom he wrote, That they should […] that Application by way of proportion, That […] who suffered in the flesh, i. e. Had their fleshly […] […] by the Death of Christ, should cease from […]. This 6th. Verse is one proof of that, For, for […] end was the Gospel preached to men alive when […] heard it, but now dead; so that those that are […] alive, and those that are […], they might be […] in the flesh; that is, their lusts of the flesh might have sentence passed against them, and Execution done upon them, and so be abolished, even that flesh, those lustings which are [Greek or Hebrew], according to men, which come from corrupt nature, that so we may live in the Spirit according to God and his Counsel, which guides us according to Gods mind: To this place also appertains that in Rom. 7. 4. Wherefore my Brethren you are become dead to the Law, by the Body of Christ, that you should be married to another, even to him that is raised from the Dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. And Vers. 6. But now you are delivered from the Law, that being dead in which we were held: that is, The marriage Covenant between Sin and the Soul being broken wherein we were held: The full Comparison of which, those words are but one part, is taken by way of Resemblance from marriage; namely, As long as the Man lives, the Woman is bound by Marriage Covenant; he may plead it, and she cannot gain-say it but she is his: But if the Husband be dead, than she is free, the Law or Covenant cannot bind her, there is no Claim on the Mans part that can be pretended, nor Right on Her part acknowledged. So is it betwixt Sin and the Soul, who were as it were handfasted together by reason of the Breach of the Law, being thereby delivered up in Gods […] Justice unto the jurisdiction ⟨p. 398⟩and authority thereof:

To the like purpose is the meaning of that place also, 1 〈…〉. 4. 6. For, for this end was the Gospel preached to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. In the sirst Verse, from the Death and Sufferings of our Savior, he perswaded