A36315:16
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Dedication: To the Congregation to whom these Sermons do belong, whether Bond or Free.
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.
Man lying in this pitiful plight, in this forlorn, miserable, and deplorable condition, the God of grace and mercy (of his mere grace and mercy) did commiserate, seek after him, find him out, and made known a way of Redemption for him, even by the Incarnation, Passion, and Crucifixion of his own Son; which he did more and more clearly in several ages discover to the captivated children of enthralled Adam; whereas he provided no Redeemer for fallen Angels, but where they fell, there they lye, bound in chains of darkness, without hope of help, or possibility of recovery to all eternity. Behold, ye Captive Sons of men, a remedy for you, but not for Devils; for God sent not his Son to take upon him the nature of Angels, but the ⟨p. 198⟩seed of Abraham; and that when the Apostatizing Angels sinned, and were falling down to hell, Christ did not take hold on them; but on man (when by reason of sin he was tumbling and sinking into everlasting misery) he did take hold, and snatched him from the flames of eternal burnings, from the curse of the Law, and from the intolerable wrath of an angry and provoked God.
Man lying in this pitiful plight, in this forlorn, miserable, and deplorable condition, the God of grace and mercy (of his meer grace and mercy) did commiserate, seek after him, find him out, and made known a way of Redemption for him, even by the Incarnation, Passion, and Crucifixion of his own Son; which he did more and more clearly in several ages discover to the captivated children of enthralled Adam; whereas he provided no Redeemer for fallen Angels, but where they fell, there they lye, bound in chains of darkness, without hope of help, or possibility of recovery to all eternity. Behold, ye Captive Sons of men, a remedy for you, but not for Devils; for God sent not his Son to take upon him the nature of Angels, but the ⟨p. 198⟩seed of Abraham; and that when the Apostatizing Angels sinned, and were falling down to hell, Christ did not take hold on them; but on man (when by reason of sin he was tumbling and sinking into everlasting misery) he did take hold, and snatched him from the flames of eternal burnings, from the curse of the Law, and from the intolerable wrath of an angry and provoked God.