Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

In opening it to you, I shall prove six things.

1. A Captivity or Bondage. 2. That from thence we are freed by a Ransom, or Price paid. 3. That none but Christ was fit to give this Ransom. 4. That nothing performed by Christ was sufficient, till he laid down his life. 5. That thence there is a liberty resulting to us. 6. That we do not actually partake of the benefit of this Ransom, till we be in Christ.

1. A Captivity or Bondage. 2. That from thence we are freed by a Ransom, or Price paid. 3. That none but Christ was fit to give this Ransom. 4. That nothing performed by Christ was sufficient, till he layed down his life. 5. That thence there is a liberty resulting to us. 6. That we do not actually partake of the benefit of this Ransom, till we be in Christ.

1. Our being Redeemed, supposeth a Captivity and Bondage: All men in their unrenewed Estate are slaves to sin and Satan, and subject to the Wrath of God: That we are slaves to Sin, appeareth by Scripture and Experience; Titus 3.3. Serving divers lusts and pleasures. Joh. 8.34. Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin. Men imagine a life spent in vanity and pleasure, to be a very good life; it were so, if Liberty were to be determined by doing what we list, rather than what we ought. But since it is not, Experience showeth that they are convinced of their brutish satisfactions as mean and base, yet they cannot leave them, for that true, and solid happiness offered by Christ: Now as they ⟨p. 9⟩are under sin, so they are under Satan, who worketh in the children of disobedience,