Captives bound in chains made free

3. A freedom from all misery, calamity and punishment. Man had then a freedom from sickness, from sorrow and from affliction and death; for all these are the fruits of sin: Man had never been in bondage to these, if he had not become a bond slave to Satan and to sin. And in this state man had no need of a Redeemer, because he was not then a captive.

2. Man might be considered in a state of Corruption, and so his condition is quite contrary to what it was in his first estate; as before he was free, so now he is a slave, before at liberty, but now in bondage: and this bondage is opposite to the former three-fold Liberty.

1. In man there is now a bondage to sin, in slavery to his own lusts and to his own vile affections, that there is no part in him free from sin; his understanding is not free from ignorance, darkness and error, his will is not free from obstinacy and rebellion, his affections are not free from disorder and confusion, hating what ⟨p. 158⟩he should love, and loving what he should hate, shunning what he should desire, and desiring what he should shun, rejoicing in that which should be the matter, cause and reason of his sorrow, and grief, and grieving and being weary of that which should be matter of his delight and joy. This is mans sinful bondage.

1. In man there is now a bondage to sin, in slavery to his own lusts and to his own vile affections, that there is no part in him free from sin; his understanding is not free from ignorance, darkness and errour, his will is not free from obstinacy and rebellion, his affections are not free from disorder and confusion, hating what