A36315:307
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.
4. Then Christ shall free them from that weariness that now our bodies often feel, and do groan under; for he will make them strong and powerful bodies. Now-a-days work in the service of God doth weary our bodies; but hereafter though they shall be employed through an endless eternity, in praising and glorifying of God, they shall neither be weary of it through wickedness, nor weary in it through weakness, for as much as Christ will free them from both, 1 Cor. 15. 42, 43.
4. Then Christ shall free them from that weariness that now our bodies often feel, and do groan under; for he will make them strong and powerful bodies. Now-a-days work in the service of God doth weary our bodies; but hereafter though they shall be imployed through an endless eternity, in praising and glorifying of God, they shall neither be weary of it through wickedness, nor weary in it through weakness, for as much as Christ will free them from both, 1 Cor. 15. 42, 43.
5. Christ will then so free them from all imperfections that they shall be made like to Christs glorious body. And can we desire greater freedom for our bodies, than to be made like to Christs glorious body, Phil. 3. 21.
6. Christ doth free all his from the damnation of hell, that when the Devils Captives shall be pained and tormented by exquisite and unspeakable punishment, rolling and tumbling, shrieking and howling, and with bitter cries lamenting themselves, the redeemed of Christ shall never be touched with the flames of that fire; the second death shall have no power over them,