A36315:298
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. De[…]h to Free-men of the Lord is the utter abolition of their sin; it shall free them from the very being and in-dwelling of sin: when the soul shall be separated from the body, all sin, and all corruption shall be separated from the soul: whereas the Devils bond-men dye in their sin, and after death do still retain their hatred unto God, their enmity to Christ, and are ⟨p. 167⟩more confirmed and hardened in it than before.
1. De〈…〉h to Free-men of the Lord is the utter abolition of their sin; it shall free them from the very being and in-dwelling of sin: when the soul shall be separated from the body, all sin, and all corruption shall be separated from the soul: whereas the Devils bond-men dye in their sin, and after death do still retain their hatred unto God, their enmity to Christ, and are ⟨p. 167⟩more confirmed and hardned in it than before.
2. Death to the Lords Freemen puts an end to all their sorrow and affliction, to all their troubles and their sufferings. It is Gods Handkerchief, whereby he wipes away all tears from the eyes of his redeemed people, Rev. 14. 13. but at death the sorrow of the Devils Captives doth begin, or is increased; if they were at ease while they lived, they shall be in pain when they dye: if they did roar and sing while they lived, they shall roar and lament after death: Death takes them from their riches, from their friends, and from their pleasure, and whatsoever was dear unto them in this worlds enjoyments, and puts them into a place of pain and torment, a place of utter darkness, where they shall for ever weep and howl, and fruitlessly lament their woeful state, and their irrecoverably-lost-happiness.