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IT is better (if the will of God be so) that yee suffer for wel doing, * 1.1 then for euil doing: for∣asmuch as Christ hath once suffered for sins, the iust for the vniust, to bring vs to God, and was killed as perteining to the flesh, but was quickned in the spirit. In which spirit he also
went and preached to the spirites that were in prison, which sometime had bene disobedient, when the long suffering of God was once looked for in the daies of Noe, while the Arke was a preparing: wherein a fewe, that is to say, eight soules, were saued by the water, like as Baptisme also now saueth vs: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but in that a good conscience conseuteth to God, by the resurrection of Ie∣sus Christ, which is on the right hand of God, and is gone in∣to heauen, angels, powers, and might, subdued vnto him.
1. Pet. 3, 27.