The application of redemption

When the Devils power is now gone, and that Justice hath signified her pleasure, That the Prisoner must be set loose, they then begin to pretend the right they have, and the claim they can make yet unto the Sinner. Therefore Sin and […] seem […] plead their own Cause in way of Justice, and that which cannot be gain-said, as that the souls, of such […] Creatures do appertain to them; for besides (says Satan) the Statute Law, The soul that sins, that soul must die. The Evidence is clear from their practice and experience: Whether these be the seed of the Serpent, because they express the nature of the serpent in their actions, Is it not written, John, 8 44. You are of your Father the Devil, for the lusts of your Father you will do. These are they whose hearts if they were discerned, whose carriages if they were traced and taken notice of, would give in Evidence that the […] of the Serpent was in the one, and the venom of the Serpent in the other: Why, Have they not, nay, continue they not to do the lusts of the Devil to this day? They have the Spirit of sin and Satan within them: and therefore they are their Children, and therefore sin and Satan […] a right and title to them. Is it not again writ, Rom. 6. 16. Know ye not that to whom you yield your selves servants to obey, his servants you are. As who should say, It is a ruled case, common and confessed by the verdict of all. If ye yield your selves to obey sin, you are the servants of sin: therefore says sin and Satan, since we have such law on our side for our right, we crave our right; for these have yielded themselves servants to my temptations says Satan, and to my allurements says the World, and to my instigation says Sin, therefore they are our Servants, therefore let us have them still. To which the Lord Answers, and Justice also Replies, While ⟨p. 394⟩they did remain the seed of the Serpent, and in the state of the Children of wrath, so long you have reason to have them, and right to challenge them, and therefore it is you have detained them as Prisoners to your pleasure to this day: Yea, but says the Father; The Lord Jesus whom I have sent, he hath undertaken to pacify my wrath, and purchase their deliverance, and so hath done, for he hath bought them of Divine Justice, and therefore hath right now to make them the seed of the Covenant of Grace, and to bring them to himself, and life;