increase So thine inperfections must decrease and thy Christ in thee must increase And as the house of David must growe stronger and stronger and the house of Saul weaker and weaker So in thee the Spirit must grow stronger and stronger but the flesh must grow weaker weaker even till the flesh be utterly overcome and mortalitie be swallowed up of life But then 5. Though you were once in continuall feare and under a Spirit of bondage yet now have you continuall peace and joy in the Holy Ghost for you have not received the Spirit of bondage under which you were while you were in the bonds of Satan chains of darknes I say you have not received that spirit of bondage to fear again but you have received the Spirit of Son-ship wherby you seeing God as a reconciled Father do now serve him without fear I mean slavish feare such feare as may in the least trouble or distract your hearts with terrour or horrour for that is contrary to the Spirit of Son-ship And Low can you now feare that in the Spirit behold the Fathers countenance as being reconciled by the Lord Jesus unto him no you cannot for 6. You that were all your life time subject to bondage even to the law and sinne and Satan before the comming of the Lord Iesus into your soules are now freed from it and are now in the glorious light and libertie of the Sons of God in Iesus Christ and now feare I meane slavish is cast away not but that there remains still a sweet feare a filiall feare a feare of love but this is not a trouble but a solace to your souls for it proceeds from sweetnesse and ends in sweetnes it proceeds from love and ends in love The discoveries of love to thee draw it as an effect of love from thee so all slavish or perplexing feare is banished now that thou art in the glorious Kingdom of God in Iesus Christ 7 Vse An exhortaâ—ion to the Saints to walke in the sight of Iesus Christ and in the light in the purity in joy of the Spirit for thou art brought into a kingdome of glory being brought unto the Lord Iesus and in this thou hast all the priviledges that the most inlarged heart can thinke upon and these are your happinesses who are dead to the Law and married to the Lord Iesus And now 7. Vse ANd lastly Is it so that the Saints by the Spirit of life in Christ Iesus have obtained this glorious freedom these glorious priviledges is it thus that the Saints of God have the Spirit of Iesus Christ then here may be a use of sweete exhortation unto them a four fold exhortation 1. Alwayes to be taking sweet views of the Lord Iesus 2. To walke in the glorious light of the Spirit 3. To walke in the puritie of the Spirit and to be fruitfull through the Spirit 4. To walke in the joyes of the Spirit and to rejoyce evermore But 1. You that are Saints seeing you have obtained this freedome the text holds forth by Iesus Christ in whom you have such glorious priviledges Be exhorted to be alwayes taking a view of Iesus Christ and contemplating of that which Christ hath done for you and though yet you know but little be exhorted to know more and to grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Paul counts all things but drosse and dung for the excellencie of the knowledge of Iesus Christ so do you It is your onely happinesse It is life eternall and therefore hee that knowes most of Christ let him improve all the strength of Christ that is given unto him in the use of all the meanes God hath for that end given to us to know more O let it be your continuall exercise to study the Lord Iesus and to meditate of the Lord Iesus let him be your meditation day and night Let the Lord Iesus alway be in your heart when you lie downe and when you rise up in your going out and comming in In all your discourses let the Lord Iesus be held forth when ever you have opportunitie especially those which are cald to the ministerie and have opportunities according to their calling to speake in publicke being made overseers of a flocke be alwayes I say holding forth the Lord Iesus Christ and the knowledge of the Lord Iesus unto the people for how are they said to be ministers of the Gospel and ministers of Christ that are not continually preaching Christ but as too many doe spend the time in which they should preach Christ in discoursing of points of controversie and of the Civil Law and discoursing of the lawfullnesse of war and the like never holding forth the knowledge of Christ or but seldome I doe not nor cannot object against the lawfulnesse of such discourses but I covet to have more of Christ held forth and to have the Lord Jesus set up in the hearts of all And therefore let this exhortation be acceptable to all strive to know more of the Lord Jesus to know him in every particular Dive into and take a view of all his glories and as you have opportunitie hold them forth to others but especially his death Paul makes that as if it were the summe of all the Gospel he was to hold forth Christ crucified and therefore he tells us that he desires to know nothing and glory in nothing but a crucified Christ 1 Cor 2.2 Gal. 6.14 And O how many and how sweet are the benefits of the Crosse and death of Christ take a veiw of this in the text how upon the crosse he took away the hand-writing of ordinances that was against us and freed us from the curse of the law being made a curse upon the Crosse for us Oh therefore grow in the knowledge of a Christ crucified And in a word grow in all the knowledge of of Christ know him in his death and the fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection know him in his union with thee and relations to thee c. And still so prefer the knowledge of Christ above all other knowledge as with the holy Apostle and the holy martyr to cry out I desire to know none but Christ none but Christ And 2. As you that are Saints are to be exhorted to be alwayes veiwing of your Saviour and to grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ so having his Spirit poured upon you you are now to walk in the glorious light of the Spirit that it may appear that you are children of the light for this is your priviledge that ye are now light in the Lord the Lord Iesus is your light and your Sun Oh therefore let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven shine you amidst a crooked and perverse generation although the blinde world walkes in darknesse yet do you walke in the light in the
light of the Spirit in the light of the Lord and as in the day being children of the light bring all your actions into the light and let them all be according to the light Let the light of the Spirit in the Word bee the rule of all your actions and of all your holy performances in every thing you doe search the Scriptures whither it be so or no try all things by the light of the Spirit and hold fast that which is good Take up nothing upon trust from others but be sure to have a light from the Spirit for what you doe And 3. As you are alway to be viewing the Lord Iesus and to walke in the light of the Spirit you are so also to walke in the Spirit as to walke in the puritie of the Spirit bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit Let your conversation be as in heaven while you are upon earth walke in the Spirit and be fruitfull in every good word and worke quench not the Spirit but be fervent in spirit serving the Lord. Let all your desires be to be ever in the performance of all holy duties Let it be your meate and drinke to be instant in prayer to Pray continually to Pray without ceasing to be continually offering up spiritual sacrifices to your God in the Spirit to hate the garment spotted by the flesh to contemn and despise the worlds vanities love not the world nor the things thereof as they are in themselves but set your affections upon the things which are above Thus Saints walke you in the spirit that a sweete frame and disposition alwayes may appeare in you in doing good unto all loving your enemies blessing them that curse you doing good unto them that despightfully use you and if it be possible live peaceable with all men walke inoffensively towards them that are without and those within yeeld to all men their due be subject to the higher powers even the powers that are ordained of God both Kings and Magistrates as farre as the word warrants being subject to the ordinances of men for the Lords sake so farre as they are not contrary to the minde of God and yeeld tribute to whom tribute is due honour to whom honour and feare to whom feare is due Be of a meeke and quiet spirit in every passage of your conversation Let the love of the brethren be in you abundantly be as ready to do a brother good as to do thy selfe good in honour preferring one another simpathising with the condition of others and rejoyce with them that do rejoyce and weepe with them that weepe being tender hearted and bearing one another burdens forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake forgave you and though there may be differences in judgement among brethren yet let there be a union in affection Considering that there are severall degrees of light given out to severall saints some have higher measures of light then others have And what if thou hast more light then thy brother do not despise him because he is more ignorant for what hast thou that thou hast not received but consider that though he be now other wayes minded God shall reveale it to such a one in his owne time and besides it may be thy brother which seems to be much inferiour to thee in some things may exceede thee in the knowledge of the misteries of Christ in some particulars And againe though thy brother seeme to be in darkenesse unto thee in some particulars yet it may be it is through thy ignorance that dost not see that light that doth appeare to him and though it doth not now appeare unto thee yet it may appeare though now it seeme an errour to thee Therefore in the meane time though you differ in iudgment yet be one in afectition and be followers of God as deere Chidren and walke in love as Christ also hath loued us and hath given himselfe for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweete smelling Sauour remember how the Lord Jesus hath saide hereby shall men know that you are my disciples if you love one another Oh therfore let the spirit of love sweetly appear in you and dwell in love And let also humblenesse and lowlynesse of minde appeare in you and condesend to men of low estate and so walke in the frvtes of holynesse in the spirit that it may apeere to all that the Spirit of God and of glory resteth upon you and in the Apostles words whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are of good report whatsoever things are lovely thinke one these things for the spirit is powered upon you now saies the Apostle 1. Cor. 3.17 18. the Lord is that Spirit and where the spirit of the lord is there is libertie and therefore you all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Lastly the last exhortation to the Saints is to walke in the joyes of the Spirit The Spirit is your comforter and have you the comforter why theâ— should you be sad why should thy heart be troubled banish therefore 〈◊〉 sinfull sorrow and sadnesse from your hearts you that are saints Reioyce in the Lord ye righteous and let all the Children of Zion be joyfull in their kings yea reioyce evermore and againe I say reioyce your God hath given you the comforter for this very end therefore be filled with joy in the Holy ghost Indeed had you not the spirit you might be commanded to rejoyce long enough yet never be able to rejoyce but now the Comforter is come now the Spirit is given unto thee What wantest thou now to make thee joyfull doth he not take of the things of the father and of Christ and show it unto thee doth he not reveal to thee even the bosome thoughts of thy God No man hath feene or can reveale the Father but the sonne which came from the bosome of the Father and he by his spirit reveales the thoughts of the love of your God vnto you from all eternity ye and the exceeding love where with he hath loved you he reveales the glorious designes of God in the Lord Jesus for thee and the vnsearchable riches of his grace And if so how comes it to passe that you that are Saints some of you are so disquieted and sadded in your spirits Walking as though you had still the spirit of bondage which we have not now received and your hearts are so filled with sorrow Certainly this is not the minde of your God This is not a fruite of the Spirit but of the flesh for the fruits of the Spirit are love joy peace c. But these distempering sadnesses and feares come from the flesh as you may observe it in your selves when you give way to the flesh and live below and not a bove in the spirit as to the pleasures of the world and upon creature comforts sorrow hath seazed upon you and your hearts have bin fild with feare for fear sorrow is natural to the flesh but you have the Spirit therfore reioyce ever more walking a bove the flesh alwaies hearken you to the sweet voice of the Spirit and be you alwaies singing and making melodie in your hearts to the Lord being fild with joy unspeakable and full of glory Which the Lord 〈◊〉 these times of horror and feare to 〈◊〉 godly men giue in abundantly vnâ—â— all them that love our Lord Jesus Chriâ—â— and his apearing and coming Now vnto the King Immortall all Invisible and the onely wise God be honour and glory for ever and ever AMEN FJNJS
to be a law in regard of his mighty operation in the Soule it brings downe light and truth and life and power into the soule and workes exceeding strongly in the soule and when it comes what is able to withstand the Spirit What is greater then the Spirit What is stronger then the Spirit If the spirit comes it bears down all opposition Though the flesh lust against the spirit yet the spirit is two strong for the flesh so that it divides the very jonts and marrow So that the Spirit is a law above the law the law is weake and cannot take place in the hearts of men But when the spirit comes with its law it prevails against all and takes place The flesh profiteth nothing saith our Saviour it is the Spirit that quickneth If the spirit quickneth it hath life in it and where life is it is full of activity for life is manifested in this in that it is full of motion quicknesse and agilitie and in beating off every thing that doeth offende it or anoy it So the spirit being a spirit of life it hath a mighty power in it Although the soule be filled with sin and guilt and in that condition cloathed also with ignorance which doth so inviron the foule as it cannot stir in any other way nor hath the least motion of good in it yet when the spirit comes he beares downe all he destroyes all and therefore it is called the spirit of burning in the scripture And when Christ comes to Baptise he is said to Baptise with the holy Ghost and with fire so that when the spirit comes nothing can stand before him and he brings both light and heate and motion in him and is most powerfull in operation But then 3. The spirit may be saide to be a law or to have a law in it as it is a sure and true guide and as it leades every soule in a right and true way And therefore our Saviour tells vs The spirit of truth shall leade you into all truth And indeed the Spirit guides securely and guides safely guides surely and guides Purely for the spirit cannot erre and he that hath the spirit knowes the minde of God and is guided to fullfill the minde of God as farr as he hath the spirit for the spirit is a blessed guide and a blessed rule and about the law for although the law it s true is righteous holy and good yet alas it Cannot bring forth power to inable the Creature to walke suteable to its selfe It is onely the Spirit hath that power and not the law Therefore the Spirit he is the law of the Saints he shews them the truth teaches them the truth and leades them in the truth and gives them power to walke according to the truth for its the spirit that guides the Saints to Christ who is the truth its selfe and so The spirit guides the Saints in the waies of holynesse through the Spirit they mortifie the deeds of the body and live through the spirit they are guided to denie themselves to abandon their owne parts and their own indowments and their owne righteousnesse and to see all in and to fetch all from a Christ Through the Spirit the Saints put away the garment spotted by the flesh and forsake their vaine conversation wherein in times past they walked through the spirit the Saints are guided to deny all vngodlynesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly and holy and Godly in the present evill world through the spirit they are taught to love with an vnfained love the houshold of faith puting away malice and envie and the leaven of discention and wickednesse through the spirit the Saints are guided so to walke as to shine as lights amidst a crooked and perverse generation In a word through the spirit the Saints are guided having discliamed all their owne righteousnesse to doe that which the Jewes could not doe by the light of the law even to submit to the righteousnesse of Christ that is to cloath themselves through faith with the glorious robes of the righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus whereby they see themselves compleat in him and thus the spirit is a pure and a sure guide and in these three respects the Spirit may be said to have a law and so much may suffice for answer to the first queree But 2. Queree 2 In that the Apostle here tells us of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus and doth not say the spirit of life in us but the spirit of life in Christ The queree will be how the spirit of life is said to be in Christ Answer To which I answer The spirit of life is said to be in Christ under two considerations 1. As hee is the Fountaine of life 2. As he communicates the spirit of life unto all his people 1. As the Lord lesus Christ is the fountaine of life as the fulnesse of all life dwells in him for so sayes the Apostle It pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell 1 Cor. 15.47 45. and the same Apostle also saies he is the Lord from Heaven and that the first Adam was made a living soule but the second Adam was made a quickning spirit and therefore our Saviour tells us the flesh profiteth nothing but it is the spirit that quickens and the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life There is such a fulnesse of the spirit in Christ that whatsoever Christ speakes is spirituall and carries a spirituall signification along with it for indeed the spirit was in him without measure so that in him is life originally or he is the fountaine of Life but then 2. The Spirit of life is in him by way of communication all that of the spirit that is communicated unto us is communicated unto us in and by the Lord Iesus Have wee any life any strength any beautie upon us any grace conveyed unto us It is all conveyed in and through the Lord Iesus Christ And therefore our Saviour tells the Jewes that he was the bread of life the bread of Heaven that came down from Heaven And whosoever did eate of his flesh and drink of his blood should live for ever he breathed the Holy Ghost on his disciples and poures upon every one that beleeves on him rivers of living water rivers of his spirit for he conveies fulnesse of spirituallitie and divine strength into them That man therefore that hath the spirit of life in Christ conveyed into him through the spirit of life in Christ living in him is the most beautifull creature in the world for he carries divine sweetnesse and beautie upon his spirit And he that hath this spirit derived from Christ hath true life in him other men may be alive and yet dead but that man that hath the life of Christ through his spirit that works in him such a soul shall live for ever such a soule shall never die but it shall
condition r. condition l. 29. f. wait r. weight p. 68. l. 6. f. ceifest r. chiefest l. 22. dele into l. 26. f. livig r. living p. 69. l. 2. f. befre r. before l. 9. f. free r. freed l. 12. dele by the. p. 17. l. 15 f. was justified r. was not justified p. 73. l. 19. dele by p. 62. l. 7. dele mis p. 63. l. 4. f. course r. curse l. 20. for man crucified r. man is crucified l. 26. f. Goost r. Ghost l. 29. f. trough r. through THE GLORIOVS Excellencies of the Spirit of Adoption Rom. 8.2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Iesus hath made me free from the law of sin and Death THis blessed Apostle not inferiour unto any of the rest of the Apostles seems to bee carried up alwaies into Heaven as once hee was while hee was upon earth so that hee tryumphs over all things as having the victorie and is not moved nor in the least troubled for any of the sufferings he underwent in the body but glories in tribulation and despises the world for he is crucified to it and is as having nothing yet possessing all things Peâ—sâ—â—ution and Prosperity Penurie and Plentie are alike welcome to him no Mutation and Change of sublunarie things can trouble his spirit in a word his whole Conversation is in Heaven though his person be one earth and no wonder for he is fild with the Heavenly manifestations the sweete discoveries and the glorious makings out of the minde of God and Christ through the Spirit unto him as appears in all his Epistles and especially in this wherein hee holds forth the glorious Misteries of the Gospell which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as he him selfe saies Ephesians 3.5 but now is made knowne unto the Apostles and Prophets through the Spirit Of which misterieis this Text holds forth a very blessed one where he tells us that the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made him all the Saints free from the Law of sin and death Now in the words heere are two things contained a Proposition and a supposition Something by way of proposall and something by way of supposall The proposition is this that the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath set the Saints free The supposition is this that the law of sin and death had brought us into bondage from which this Spirit of life in Christ hath set us free in which these two things are to be taken notice of First the ground or cause or foundation of our freedome and that is the law of the spirit Secondly The method or way by which we are set free and that is as the spirit its selfe workes in Christ he doth not say that the spirit of life in us hath set us free but the spirit of life in Christ hath set us free from the law of sin and death And here there might be many profitable observations drawn from the words but I shall sum up all in one but before I fall upon it there are three queries arising from some difficulties in the words to be answered 1. Quere 1 How the spirit may be said to be a law or what is meant by the law of the spirit 2. Queree 2 How the spirit of life is in Christ 3. Queree 3 What is meant by the law of sin and death from which the law of the spirit of life in Christ hath set us free But first if the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ doth set us free from the law of sin and death then it seemes the spirit hath a law for as there was a law given by God in the hand of Moses the Mediatour in the Olde testament so there is a law in the new Testament The law of the Spirit which it seemes is the more powerfull and glorious law The law that brings blessednesse and joy unto a Saint for its this law that brings life whereas the other brings death for the Spirit must bring life through its owne law Queree 1 But then the Queerie is How the Spirit may be said to be a law or to have law Answ To which I answer The law of spirit may bee Considered in these three things 1. In the Authoritie of the Spirit 2. In the operations or workings of the Spirit 3. In the guidance of the spirit 1. Consider we the Authoritie of the Spirit that royall and giorious authoritie that the Spirit hath Now the spirit hath a double autority 1. As it comes from God 2. As it is equall with God in the first sence the spirit and the Law are one but in the second the spirit and the law differs But I say the first part or peece of the Authoritie of the Spirit is this that it comes forth from the Father and the Son and is sent forth from the Father the Son by way of embassage so our Saviour saies I will send the Comforter He is a messenger sent from the Father and the Sonne and so hath mighty Authority Hitherto the father works and I worke but if the Father workes hee workes by the Spirit and so if the Son workes he workes by the same spirit It s the same Spirit comes from them both And thus the Spirit hath Authority and thus the law hath also authority I meane the Law given of God by Moses for the law hath all its Anthority as it comes from God and as it is sent sorth by God so the law hath true authority and in this Consideration they both agree the spirit and the law both have Authority as they come from God but then 2. The spirit hath another Authority which the law simply considered hath not that is this the spirit hath authority in its self and from its selfe for the Spirit hath as great authority as him that sent him God is the Spirit the Spirit is God and the Spirit comming from the bosome of God is God himselfe and the Spirit hath equall Authority with the Father and the Son and hath power to work out of his own pleasure and out of his owne will So saies the Scripture The winde bloweth where it listeth so is every man that is borne of the Spirit The winde is sometimes in the East sometime in the West no man commands it hither or thither no man bids it goe here or there but it goes where it will It is even so with the spirit He hath authority to lay hold of one man and not another to chuse this man and to give life to that person and so suffer another to lie under death and miserie for the spirit hath that prerogative wherin he is not onely as a messenger but is equall with the Father and the Son And so the royall Authoritie of the Spirit exceedingly surpasses the law though the law have also authority from God but then 2. The Spirit may be said to have a law or
be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life It is impossible that such a man should die for this reason He that receives the life of Christ through the spirit of Christ he receives a true being a divine nature and it is unpossible that one drop of the divine nature should perish 〈◊〉 very person that hath the divine nature he hath the spirit of Christ he hath Christ as he raises persons from the dead and as hee delivers them from the power of sin and as hee quickens them as himself is a quickning spirit And so much for answer of the second querie but 3. Queree What doth the Apostle meane heere by the law of sinne and death from which the spirit of life in Christ sets us free T Answ o which I answer His meaning is either one or both of these two things either 1. By the law of sin and death he must meane the power of sin or 2. By the law of sin and death he means that law which gives sinne a being and gives it power to destroy Now though the first of these may be heere included yet hee mainly intends the second in this place as I shall shew by and by but if he doe here any thing ayme at the first in this place it is as sin is a law and sin may be said to be a law under these two significations 1. As it hath a mighty power in 〈◊〉 or 2. As it hath a certaine kinde of confused rule 1. It hath a mighty power for so saies the Scripture the flesh lusteth against the spirit and where there is lust there is love and love is as strong as death either in good things or in evill and so sin hath its power but 2. It hath a kinde of uncertaine rule and method for there is a method in pleasure and lust and sinfull joy after a carnall manner and so sinne is a law but that which the Apostle here means is 2. The law which is the Law that occasions sinne which the law of the spirit freeth us from to this purpose observe but the 23. verse of the 7th Chapter which runs thus But I see another law in my membrs warring against the law of my minde and bringing me into captivity unto the law of sin Where we see the Apostle speakes of three lawes 1. The law of the spirit which he calls the law of his minde 2. The law of Concupiscence which he calls the law in his members which he saies brings him into Captivitie to the third law Which he calls the Law of sinne and is the law which occasions sinne For here is law against law bringing into Captivitie to law The law of sin in his members rebelling against the law of the spirit in his minde or his inward man for saies Paul I doe see another law in my members and this law in his members was the power of sin working through concupiscence and lust carrying him contrary to God rebelling saies he against the law of my minde meaning against the law of the spirit in his heart or the spirit in his heart as a law And so as he saies in another place The flesh lusteth against the Spirit leading me captive to the law of sinne Meaning by the law of sin here in the last place that law of which he speakes in the Text. The law of sinne and death which is the Law that occasions sinne and death or the Law of Commandments and this appears in the verse following the Text For the Apostle having said in the Text that the saints are free from the Law of sinne and death in the next verse hee shewes what that law is in these Words For what the law could not do in that it was weake through the flesh God sending his owne Sonne c. What was that which the law could not do that the Sonne of God did for us Answer 1. the Law could not make us holy 2. The Law could not free us from sinne 3. The law could not free us from condemnation But one the contrary it brought under guilt brought us under the curse Now what law did this The law of Comandments which saies the Apostle was weake through the flesh And it may bee said to bee weake through the flesh thus 1. In that wee are weake and through the fleshare not able to walk exactly to the law nor to come up to the Rule of it in our conversation And so are not able to obtain life by it Therefore God hath given us life in another way even through his Son or 2 In that the law as it is written upon tables of Stone though it be holy just and good hath no power as it is in the Letter to convay its selfe into us to inable us to walke according to the rule it prescribes unto us And this law is stiled the law of sinne and death in these three respect which the Scripture holds forth unto us 1. In that it discovers sinne 2. In that it is the strength of sinne 3. In that it brings men under the curse and so lyable to death 1. It discovers sinne For the Apostle tells us Rom. 7.7 I had not known sin but by the law For I had not knowne lust except the law had said Thou shalt not covet and he tells us further that where no law is there is no transgression The law is holy and therefore it discouers unto men their unholinesse And 2. As the law discovers sinne and makes sin to be exceeding sinfull so it is the strength of sin The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sin is the law 1 Cor. 15.56 where were the strength of sin were in not for the Law and 3 It brings men under the curse and under death For so saves the Apostle it is written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that is written in the Book of the Law to do them And so being under the curse the effect of the curse is death and therefore saies the Apostle if you walke after the flesh ye shall dye and it is the very title that 's giuen to the law as though there were nothing else in it The ministeration of condemnation and the ministeration of death 2. Cor. 3.7.9 In the 7 verse the Apostle cales it the ministeration of death ingraven in stones and in the 9. verse the ministeration of condemnation Thus you see how the lawis held forh in scripture to be the law of sinne and death now what this law being weake through the flesh could not doe God hath sent Iesus Christ to doe for us and in us and therefore he hath freed us from that law and given us another law even the law of the Spirit that the righteousnesse of the law might be fullfilled by the spirit in us as apears verse 4th And now being freed from this law sinne shall not have dominion over us for we are not vnder the law but under