A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

5. From hence in his Name there is proclaimed Redemption to the Captives, Freedom to poor Prisoners that were in Debt, and weak, and could not acquit themselves. And therefore the Publication of the Gospel is compared to the Year of ⟨p. 353⟩Jubilee; Luke 4. 19. Christ came to preach the acceptable Year of the Lord. It relates to the Year of Jubilee, wherein all Debts were cancelled; it was a Year of general Releasement, proclaimed by sound of Trumpet, that every Man should return to his Inheritance, and all Debts dissolved and done away; Lev. 25. 9, 10. So Jesus Christ saith, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, to preach the acceptable Year of the Lord: (that is) to proclaim to poor Captives a Release of all Debts, and all Bonds which are upon them.

5. From hence in his Name there is proclaimed Redemption to the Captives, Freedom to poor Prisoners that were in Debt, and weak, and could not acquit themselves. And therefore the Publication of the Gospel is compared to the Year of ⟨p. 353⟩Iubilee; Luke 4. 19. Christ came to preach the acceptable Year of the Lord. It relates to the Year of Iubilee, wherein all Debts were cancelled; it was a Year of general Releasement, proclaimed by sound of Trumpet, that every Man should return to his Inheritance, and all Debts dissolved and done away; Lev. 25. 9, 10. So Jesus Christ saith, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, to preach the acceptable Year of the Lord: (that is) to proclaim to poor Captives a Release of all Debts, and all Bonds which are upon them.

6. All those that come to God by Christ, are interested in the Comfort of this Offer and Proclamation of Grace, and may plead with God about their Discharge from this great and heavy Debt. I put it mainly in that Notion, (those that come to God by Christ) because you will find that's the Description of those whom Christ means to save;