2. To come to what I intend, another End and reason of Christ's ⟨image 45⟩Incarnation and Passion, was, that he might deliver the Elect People of God: These he calls the Children, in the foregoing Verse; not the Children of Men, as some expound it, but the Children of God: Such Children as the Father had given the Son, so they are said to be Ver. 13. Behold (says Christ) I and the Children which thou hast given me; such as were predestinated to the adoption of Children, as it is phrased, Ephes. 1.5. These the Text also describes, and tells us in what Condition they were by Nature; Through fear of Death they were all their life-time subject to bondage. By all their Life time you must understand all that time which they lived before they were delivered. This is the Condition of the Elect of God, as they come into the World, they are not only subject unto Death, but unto the Fear of Death, and unto bondage by reason thereof. The word ([Greek or Hebrew]) which is rendered subject, signifies they were held fast, and manacled, as Birds that are taken in a snare, or as Malefactors that are going to their Execution. The word ([Greek or Hebrew]) which is rendered bondage, signifies a state of servitude or slavery, such as men dislike but cannot avoid: One calls it a penal disquietment or perplexity of mind, that ariseth from a sense of misery, that a man would fain be rid of and can't; 'tis a Yoke whereby his Neck is galled, but he can't put it off; and if he should be released from it by any undue ways or means, it would be to his farther detriment and danger in the end. Now from this Fear of Death the Children are said to be delivered by Christ. There are many evils from which he redeems and delivers them; he delivers them from the bondage of sin and Satan, from the rigour and Curse of the Law, from everlasting Punishment and Wrath to come, and he delivers them also from the Fear of Death: This is implied, if it be not expressed in the Text; for upon the mentioning of their deliverance he gives this description of the Persons that are delivered, that they w••e such as were afraid of Death, and liable to continual bondage by reason thereof. Hence all Expositors, both ancient and modern, do rationally infer, That the Fear of Death is one of those evils from whence we are delivered by Jesus Christ.
2. To come to what I intend, another End and reason of Christ's ⟨image 45⟩Incarnation and Passion, was, that he might deliver the Elect People of God: These he calls the Children, in the foregoing Verse; not the Children of Men, as some expound it, but the Children of God: Such Children as the Father had given the Son, so they are said to be Ver. 13. Behold (says Christ) I and the Children which thou hast given me; such as were predestinated to the adoption of Children, as it is phras'd, Ephes. 1.5. These the Text also describes, and tells us in what Condition they were by Nature; Through fear of Death they were all their life-time subject to bondage. By all their Life time you must understand all that time which they liv'd before they were deliver'd. This is the Condition of the Elect of God, as they come into the World, they are not only subject unto Death, but unto the Fear of Death, and unto bondage by reason thereof. The word (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) which is render'd subject, signifies they were held fast, and manacled, as Birds that are taken in a snare, or as Malefactors that are going to their Execution. The word (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) which is rendred bondage, signifies a state of servitude or slavery, such as men dislike but cannot avoid: One calls it a poenal disquietment or perplexity of mind, that ariseth from a sense of misery, that a man would fain be rid of and can't; 'tis a Yoke whereby his Neck is gall'd, but he can't put it off; and if he should be released from it by any undue ways or means, it would be to his farther detriment and danger in the end. Now from this Fear of Death the Children are said to be delivered by Christ. There are many evils from which he redeems and delivers them; he delivers them from the bondage of sin and Satan, from the rigour and Curse of the Law, from everlasting Punishment and Wrath to come, and he delivers them also from the Fear of Death: This is imply'd, if it be not express'd in the Text; for upon the mentioning of their deliverance he gives this description of the Persons that are delivered, that they w••e such as were afraid of Death, and lyable to continual bondage by reason thereof. Hence all Expositors, both ancient and modern, do rationally inferr, That the Fear of Death is one of those evils from whence we are deliver'd by Jesus Christ.
