.The-Churchei Marriage. 33 .have me doe: That feemcs eafie for the prefenr, f but will not this increafe thy-bondage, andpay thee with deathin the end? on the other fide, if tho ube content to be fubjett to the Phyftcian, and have thy will fubject to his, cloth not this ·draw to libertyand reftore·hcalth, and bring rhee to life? therefore confider what a frnall objection that is, and conftder withal1, what you will cbufe; for I fay, -every man mull: bee ·fubjeet to one husband; and ·that you may fee the difference of thefe husbands , conftder that in Rom. 7. you lhall nnde there' that wbofoever is not marrycd .to .Cifrill:, is fub je6t tt'> another husband, that is the Lar¥J. KnowJMnrJt hrethre?t, that the Lawhath dominion over a manas long tuhee liveth t for the woman that il fuvjefl to 11 man iJ hound hy the La~ to the man tJhi/e.he liveth, and if{he take another man fbe fha!l6e caUed an aaulterejfe: but if the manbedead_, fhee u freed from the Law, fo that fhee 1f not an adultertjfe, though/he take anotherman. This is but the firniii– .tude·: but the meaning is, before ever a man be rnarryed to Chri£1:, be is marryed to the Law, and he cannot bemarryed to Chrift J efus, till bee be / dead to the Law; and when hee is dead once to that, then he may be marryed tobim, Nowyou lhall fee the reddition·ofthis fimilitude : fo yorJ brethren- are dead to the' Law by the ho.dy of Chrifl, that youmight be mttrryed to'another, to him that wtU raifed[rem the dead, that )'OU mip-_ht bring.forth fruit . tmto God. For whenJOU were in theflefh, the m8tions of 1 finne thAt are /Jy the Law hadforce inyour me_mber:r to bringforth fruit unto death, &c. The mean in}; is Cc this) 1 . ______ .,.___ __:=-.:_____ ____ ~--~-~
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