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

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, Eph. 2.2. and hath a great power over wicked men in the world, who fall to his share, as the Executioner of Gods Curse, and are taken captive by him at his Will and Pleasure, 2 Tim. 2.26. This is the woeful captivity and servitude of carnal men, that they fall as a ready prey into the mouth of the roaring Lion: Now for this they are liable to the Curse and Wrath of God: Therefore called children of wrath even as others, Eph. 2.3. that is, obnoxious to his righteous displeasure and punishment: Thus were we lost in our selves under Sin, Satan, and the Wrath of God, from which we could no way free our selves, and if Grace had not opened a way for us to escape what should we have done?

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. Ioh. 8.34