14.  So that the believer, renouncing that jurisdiction under which he was formerly, and being under a new husband, and under a new law, even the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, is to look upon all the motions of sin as illegal, and as treasonable acts of a tyrant.  “The old man being crucified with Christ, that the body of sin might be destroyed, the believer is not any more to serve sin,” Rom. vi. 6; “and being now dead, they are freed from sin,” ver. 7; “and are married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, and so they should not serve sin, but bring forth fruit unto God,” Rom. vii. 4; and therefore, look upon all motions of the flesh, and all the inclinations and stirrings of the old law of sin, as acts of treachery and rebellion against the right and jurisdiction of the believer’s new Lord and husband; and are therefore obliged to lay hold on this old man, this body of death, and all the members of it, as traitors to the rightful king and husband, and to take them prisoners to the king, that he may give out sentence, and execute the same against them, as enemies to his kingdom and interest in the soul;—­they being now no more “servants of sin, but of righteousness, they ought no more to yield their members servants to uncleanness, and iniquity unto iniquity,” Rom. vi. 18, 19; “and being debtors no more to the flesh, to live after the flesh,” Rom. vii. 12; “they are to mortify the deeds of the body through the spirit,” ver. 13; “and to crucify the flesh with the affections and lusts,” Gal. v. 24; that is, by bringing them to the cross of Christ, where first they were condemned and crucified, in their full body and power; that a new sentence, as it were, may go out against them, as parts of that condemned tyrant, and as belonging to that crucified body.

15.  So that the believer that would carry faithfully in this matter, and fight lawfully in this warfare, and hope to obtain the victory through Jesus Christ, must bring these traitors that appear in their sinful motions and lusts in the soul, working rebellion against the just authority and equitable laws of the lawful prince Jesus, before the tribunal of him who hath now got “all power and authority in heaven and in earth,” Matt, xxviii. 18; “and hath all judgment committed to him,” John v. 22; “and to this end, both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living,” Rom. xvi. 9; that he may execute justice upon the traitor, head, and members; that he may trample these devils under, and bruise the head of these serpents within us.  The believer then is by faith in prayer, to carry these open enemies to Christ, and declare and witness against them as traitors, by what mischief they have done in the soul, by their hindering the righteous laws of the king to be obeyed; and constraining and forcing, what by arguments and allurements, and what by forcible inclinations and pousings, to a disobedience and a counteracting of Christ; and he should urge