The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved

2. When they are saved from the slavery of the Devil, and their own lusts. All the wicked are spiritual slaves and vassals, they are in worse than Egyptian bondage, their thraldom and captivity is greater, than that of the Jews once to the Babylonians: The Devil hath his fetters upon their hands and feet, and leadeth them captive by the chains of their own lusts at his will, 2 Tim. 2.26. They are shut up as it were in prison, and lye in a deep dark dungeon, where no light doth shine; they are fallen into a horrible pit, and their feet stick in the miry clay; they are sunk into deep waters, and the stream is gone over their soul; they are fallen into a deadly sickness, and a loathsome disease hath seized upon their spirits; they are full of boils, and blains, and putrefying sores, all this and a thousand times worse is their condition, through the power and reign of sin in them; then a people are saved in a spiritual sense, when they are redeemed from sin and Satan, when the Lord Jesus Christ doth rescue them out of the Devils chains, when he leadeth captivity captive, spoileth principalities and powers, and snatcheth them like a prey out of the teeth of the roaring Lion, when he delivereth them from the power of darkness, and translateth them into the household and family of God, when he brings them out of the house of bondage, and leads them out of Egypt through the Red Sea of his own blood, in which he drowneth and destroyeth their Egyptian lusts which do pursue them, when he openeth the prison doors, and pulls them out of the deep dungeon, and knocks off the chains from their feet, when he breaks the bonds of the ⟨p. 32⟩Devil, and sin, and brings them forth into freedom and enlargement; when he takes them out of the pit, and draws them out of the water; when he healeth their sickness, cleanseth and cureth their putrefying sores; I mean, when he delivereth them from the power of sin which entangled, overwhelmed and defiled them, and was more dangerous than any sickness of body could be unto them: then they are saved, when Satan is taken off, and sin hath no more dominion over them, and the Throne of Christ is erected in their hearts, and his graces implanted there, which do beautify them instead of lust, which did besmear and deform them;

2. When they are saved from the slavery of the Devil, and their own lusts. All the wicked are spiritual slaves and vassals, they are in worse than Egyptian bondage, their thraldom and captivity is greater, than that of the Iews once to the Babylonians: The Devil hath his fetters upon their hands and feet, and leadeth them captive by the chains of their own lusts at his will,