A36315:291
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.
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.
1. What it is that believers are freed from by Christ; and these are great and sore evils, and such as would have made us unspeakably and eternally miserable, if Christ had not freed us from them.
1. Christ hath delivered us, and set us free from the power of Satan, that he hath no more rule in us as formerly he had; he did rule in our hearts, Ephes. 2. 2; and we did yield voluntary subjection and obedience to him; but Christ hath bound this strong man, and spoiled him of his goods, and hath dispossessed him, and turned him out of our hearts, from dwelling, reigning, ruling there, as in a Throne; this Christ came to do, Heb. 2. 14, 15; he hath delivered us from the Justice of God, by price and ⟨p. 164⟩purchase; from Satan, by power and by a mighty hand.
1. Christ hath delivered us, and set us free from the power of Satan, that he hath no more rule in us as formerly he had; he did rule in our hearts, Ephes. 2. 2; and we did yeild voluntary subjection and obedience to him; but Christ hath bound this strong man, and spoiled him of his goods, and hath dispossessed him, and turned him out of our hearts, from dwelling, reigning, ruling there, as in a Throne; this Christ came to do, Heb. 2. 14, 15; he hath delivered us from the Justice of God, by price and ⟨p. 164⟩purchase; from Satan, by power and by a mighty hand.