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Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety
Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety: or, The misery of graceless sinners, and their recovery by Christ their Saviour. By T. Doolittel [sic]. ; [Three lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed by Rogers & Fowle for J. Edwards, 1742
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. If thou art of an unblameable life, yet thou hast a corrupt and sinful heart; if thou, hadst been free all thy life long from every actual sin, (as thou art not) yet there is sin enough in thy heart to sink thee to the lowest hell. There is heart-adultery, and heart-murder, pride of heart, and unbelief in thy heart; so that though thou sayest, fair is thy life, yet God doth see, that foul and filthy is thy heart; and it is not unblameableness; of life only, but purity of heart too, that must qualify you for the enjoyment of God, Mat. 5.8. Heb. 12.14.
2. If thou art of an unblameable life, yet thou hast a corrupt and sinful heart; if thou, hadst been free all thy life long from every actual sin, (as thou art not) yet there is sin enough in thy heart to sink thee to the lowest hell. There is heart-adultery, and heart-murder, pride of heart, and unbelief in thy heart; so that though thou sayst, fair is thy life, yet God doth see, that foul and filthy is thy heart; and it is not unblameableness; of life only, but purity of heart too, that must qualifie you for the enjoyment of God, Mat. 5.8. Heb. 12.14.
Hast thou wronged no man? what! nor God neither? dost thou give to every man ⟨p. 140⟩his due? what! and to God too? thy heart is God's due, Prov. 23.26. dost thou give to God thy heart, which is his due? thy love and obedience is God's due, Mat. 22.37. dost thou indeed give these to God? thy time, and service, and religious worship is God's due.