Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

but on the contrary, we told them from thy word which we made the rule and matter of our Sermons, and turned them to the places, where thou hast said, without holiness they should not see thy face with comfort, Heb. 12.14. We bid them turn to Mar. 16.16. where thou toldst them thy self, that he that believeth not should be damned, and to many more such declarations of thy mind to sinners. Lord there stands one that did use to hear me, and he can not deny it; and there stands another that was used to hear me, and turned to the Chapter and the Verse, and turned it down, as if he would have observed what thou hast declared, Lord there he stands, he cannot ⟨p. 105⟩deny it, yea Lord, here is a whole cluster of them stand together, that were wont to hear me, and there is not one amongst them all that can deny but they were told of what now they find; and here are those that did believe on thee through our preaching of thy Word, that can say and witness for us that we told them of the necessity of converting grace, and faith in thee: In the same Sermon that we preached that thou didst die for sinners; we also told them that they must take thee for their Lord, and obey thy Laws, and resign their hearts and wills, and love, and all to thee, but they would not do it; but they never did it; this is the evidence that we give against the prisoners at the bar. Come then ye captives, is this true, or is it not? Yes, Lord our consciences do compel us, to acknowledge that thy Ministers did declare such things unto us. Did they so? why then did you not believe them? go, get you gone, go get you down to your deserved torments. Come hither, ye my glorious Angels take the Prisoners at the bar, that in their life-time were fettered and bound with chains of sin. Now come ye, hither and take them, bind them hand and foot, and cast them into utter darkness; drive them from my presence; away with them, ⟨p. 106⟩away with them; come ye damned Devils, you took them captive, and kept them in their sinful bondage. I would have redeemed them, and knocked off their fetters from them, but they would not hearken unto me, and now I will not hearken unto them, come take them then, and drag them down to the place of punishment, where you and they shall be for ever.