A36315:156
Captives bound in chains made free
Captives bound in chains made free by Christ their surety, or, The misery of graceless sinners and their recovery by Christ their saviour by T. Doolittle.
London: printed by A.H. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1674
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Another Link in this Chain of false hopes whereby Captives are bound is a strong (though false) persuasion of salvation by the death of Christ the Redeemer. If you ask many carnal, ignorant and ungodly persons, why they persuade themselves that they shall be saved, they will tell you, because Christ died for sinners, and I am a sinner (saith one) God help me, as all men are, yea I am the chief of sinners, and therefore I hope it shall go well with me; and so will a second say, and a third, and multitudes will give no better account, without care or knowledge of applying the death of Christ unto them and the virtue and power of it, for the killing of their sins; and thus the very means for the redeeming of captives is abused to make their bonds the stronger, and keep them faster bound in their Captivity.
2. Another Link in this Chain of false hopes whereby Captives are bound is a strong (though false) perswasion of salvation by the death of Christ the Redeemer. If you ask many carnal, ignorant and ungodly persons, why they perswade themselves that they shall be saved, they will tell you, because Christ died for sinners, and I am a sinner (saith one) God help me, as all men are, yea I am the chief of sinners, and therefore I hope it shall go well with me; and so will a second say, and a third, and multitudes will give no better account, without care or knowledg of applying the death of Christ unto them and the virtue and power of it, for the killing of their sins; and thus the very means for the redeeming of captives is abused to make their bonds the stronger, and keep them faster bound in their Captivity.
By way of Concession it is granted, (1) that the death of Christ, and the satisfaction made to the justice of God thereby is the only meritorious cause of mans Redemption from his bondage and of Salvation, and whosoever is saved, is saved by Christs death, for there is no other Saviour nor Redeemer besides him▪ Act. 4. 12. and if Christ had not died, we had certainly been for ever captives without redemption. (2) It is true that this Redeemer is offered unto all where the Gospel is preached, none are excluded from the offers of grace and pardon, and benefits of Redemption, and his death shall be sufficient and