CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹3. We were by sin in a miserable bondage and captivity to sin and Satan; The Israelites bondage in Egypt, or in the Babylonian Captivity, was nothing to this Spiritual slavery; It's not indeed so terrible and grievous to flesh and blood, yea, they like those Chains and cords of vanity well enough, but when Paul is once awakened by the Spirit of Regeneration, and that the power of Grace hath prevailed upon him, then for those very Relics of Corruption that are within, he crieth out, Oh miserable man that I am! Rom. 7. Now Christ is fitted with Kingly power to conquer and destroy the power of sin and Satan; There is no lust, no Corruption that is too big for the King of Glory to overcome: Thus as the Jewish Priest represented Christ in his Priestly Office, So Joshua, the Son of Nun did Christ in his Kingly Office, as the Apostle insinuateth, for Heb 4.8. Heb. 7 2. as no Ogs or Sons or Anak the greatest Giants and warlike men in the world were able to stand before him, but he did bring the People of God unto their Rest; Thus also will Christ who is both the King of Righteousness and King of Peace subdue all our Spiritual Enemies, and establish us in Everlasting Rest, He will first be a King of Righteousness, and then a King of Peace, he will first conquer thy ⟨p. 505⟩lusts, and then give thee a Crown of Glory: Oh then admire this fitness of Christ to be thy Mediator! See how admirably there is a proportionable fullness in him for every emptiness of thine!

¹3. We were by sinne in a miserable bondage and captivity to sinne and Satan; The Israelites bondage in Egypt, or in the Babylonian Captivity, was nothing to this Spiritual slavery; It's not indeed so terrible and grievous to flesh and bloud, yea, they like those Chains and cords of vanity well enough, but when Paul is once awakened by the Spirit of Regeneration, and that the power of Grace hath prevailed upon him, then for those very Reliques of Corruption that are within, he crieth out, Oh miserable man that I am! Rom. 7. Now Christ is fitted with Kingly power to conquer and destroy the power of sinne and Satan; There is no lust, no Corruption that is too bigge for the King of Glory to overcome: Thus as the Jewish Priest represented Christ in his Priestly Office, So Joshua, the Sonne of Nun did Christ in his Kingly Office, as the Apostle insinuateth, for Heb 4.8.