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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.
Liberty to the Captives. › Chapter 9: Containing the 8, 9, 10 Chain or Bond of these Captives.
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.
For the breaking of the other piece of this Cord wherewith the Devil binds his Captives; the examples of those that live in the same age, the most live as I do, will ⟨p. 150⟩God damn such multitudes if it go ill with me, God help many others. Consider,
1. The most, are not the best. The greatest number is of the bad sort of men. Christ's flock is but little, Luk. 12.32. while the Devil hath great droves, Mat. 7.13, 14. If thou wilt follow the multitude they will lead thee to a place of sorrow, Exod. 23.2.
2. At the day of judgment there will be no escaping in a crowd. Thou shalt not speed the better because multitudes sin as well as thou; If thousands continue captives to the Devil, they shall all be damned? God will damn millions of men, rather than falsify his Word, if Men sin in companies, they shall suffer in companies.
2. At the day of judgment there will be no escaping in a croud. Thou shalt not speed the better because multitudes sin as well as thou; If thousands continue captives to the Devil, they shall all be damned? God will damn millions of men, rather than falsifie his Word, if Men sin in companies, they shall suffer in companies.