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But to you whiche haue w^t the carnal law nothing to do, these thinges nothing belong, since y^• ye are becomen spiritual, if ye after suche cōdicion lede Page  xx your life, that it please y^e holy spirite of God to be a dweller in your hear∣tes. For whoso is nothyng els but baptised, styl belongeth to the carnal* kyngdome of the fleshe, excepte he taste also Christ, & be with his blessed spirite inspired. Coupled are we vnto Christ, not with ceremonies, but with that spirite, whō whoso lacketh, is to Christ but a straunger. But now then, & if Christ be in you, syth he is nothyng els, but chastitie, but trueth, but tēperaūce with other vertues, how can in you synne haue any place? Whoso hath receiued Christ, him must the same mā nedes in suche vertuous pointes expresse. He (as I before sayd) once dyed touchyng his fleshe & māhed, & yet liueth he now a life euerlastyng. Then fruitfully ex¦presse & resēble we him, when y^e body y^• is to say our grosse part whiche w^t pleasaunt lustes allureth vs to all vnhappines, is dead: & is without al desyre to synne: & if therwith our spirit also, that is to say, y^• better part in vs who alway moueth to goodnes, and with his mightie power draweth vs to suche thinges as are good & righteous, be quicke and aliue. Ther∣fore if the spirite of God, whiche raised Iesus Christ frō death, vnfained¦ly* dwel in you, the same wyll not be idle. A liuely & an effectual thyng is the spirit of God, & wyll accordyng vnto your capacities in you likewise worke as it did in Christ. Him it raised from death, and suffereth not to dye againe. And so wyl y^e same raise you frō sinne, which is very death in dede, to life, extynguishyng your froward desyres & appetites: al whiche he wil do by his blissed spirit y^e author of life which now dwelleth in you.