in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

in like manner at this time there is also a remnant chosen by the divine favour;

if then, some of the branches are broken off, and thou like a wild olive, were grafted in their place to partake of the root and sap of the olivestock;