Neither geue ye your membres as instrumentes of vnrighteousnes vnto synne, but geue ouer your selues vnto God, as they that of dead, are aliue. And geue o∣uer your membres as instrumentes of righteousnes vnto God. For sinne shal not haue power ouer you: because ye are not vnder the lawe, but vnder grace.
And see that your membres beyng nowe consecrate vnto Christ, do hencefoorth nomore seruice at the deuils mocion, whom Christ hath sub∣dued, and so to worke vnrighteousnes, but rather hereafter so vse your selues, that by all your life it may appeare, that ye with Christ haue for∣saken all deadly synne and workes of death, and to be altered into a new life. And so shal ye in dede do, if hencefoorth all your membres, that is* 1.1 to say, all the powers of your bodyes and soules be applyed, not to vice in the deuils seruice, but to righteousnes in the seruice of God. For rea∣son requireth that we wholly belong to him, to whō we haue once boūde our selues, and with him to haue nothyng to do, from whom we are now departed, and whose yoke we haue once shaken of. Nor is it to be feared leste synne, (wyll we or nil we) bryng vs backe againe into our olde bon∣dage, because ye are nowe no longer vnder the lawe, whiche rather pro∣uoked wylfull desyres, then suppressed, but vnder Goddes grace, whi∣che as it was able to deliuer vs from the bondage of synne, so is it able to kepe and preserue vs, that we nomore falle thervnto.