Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…

Secondly, From our raging lusts. As from the slavery of Satan, so from the dominion of sin. Rom. 6. 14. By Christ we are freed from the dominion of sin. My brethren, Christ doth not only free us from the damnation, but from the, dominion of sin. To be the servant of sin, is a most miserable slavery. What a mercy is it to be delivered from a master, whose work is drudgery; and whose wages is destruction! such a one is Satan. Would it not have pitied us to have seen the poor man in the Gospel, going up and down among the tombs, and doing nothing but cutting and wounding himself? such a one is every unsanctified person: they go up and down wounding of themselves. And though they feel not their wounds that sin gives them, yet there is a day coming, when (conscience being awakened) they will see it. Do you know, my brethren, what the work is that sin sets us upon? it is to destroy our selves, John 8. the Jews, they plead that they were free; and what did our Saviour tell them of making them free? Oh! but they were servants to their lusts, which was the greatest slavery, my brethren, to be under the power of a mans lusts, is a most perfect slavery. Do but look upon a sinner that hath an enlightened conscience, and see how he rends and tears, and is in a worse condition than the most woeful galley-slave that is in the world. And then he vows and covenants against his sin, and then his sin eggs him on again, and then to ⟨p. 124⟩his conscience falls upon him. Oh, this is a sad condition! now this Christ hath delivered us from. Sin will be in us, but Christ hath promised that it shall not reign in us. And this is the blessed deliverance he hath wrought in us; and this he will perfect at the last day. And by the way, you may see and try whether you have any part in Christ or no. Why how may we know it? are you delivered from your sins? though sin be in you, is it there against your consent? if so, you are they whom Christ dyed for. But if it be in you in its dominion, you have no part nor portion in this matter. A man were better be the most perfect galley slave in the world, than to be under the power of sin. Now this Christ hath delivered you from.

Secondly, From our raging lusts. As from the slavery of Satan, so from the dominion of sin.