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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. It is a dark prison, a very dungeon, a place of utter darkness, a place where there is thickness and blackness of darkness forever, Mat. 25.30. Jude v. 13. Darkness addeth ⟨p. 167⟩to the discomfort of the condition they must be in, in that Prison forever. It was an amazing Judgment on the Egyptians, to be under thick darkness for three days, Exod. 10.22, 23. What a dreadful dungeon would this world be without the light of Sun, or Moon, or Stars, or Candle, though you were not in pain, nor want of other outward enjoyments, yet it would be no desirable place to continue in. Oh then, what will be the sadness, frights, and fears of these captives for ever, that shall be in pain, in torment, and in darkness forever. If a man were to live all his days in a Palace, there to have rich Provisions to feed upon, and beds of down to lodge upon, but yet to be always in the dark, would be a great affliction to him: Oh then, what will it be to live in pain and darkness too? to lie and roll & tumble in a bed of flames, in a lake of Brimstone, and in darkness too? to be amongst Devils, and this in darkness too? and must not that be a place of darkness for ever, where the light of God's countenance shall not shine upon the prisoners there forever?
2. It is a dark prison, a very dungeon, a place of utter darkness, a place where there is thickness and blackness of darkness forever, Mat. 25.30. Jude v. 13. Darkness addeth ⟨p. 167⟩to the discomfort of the condition they must be in, in that Prison forever. It was an amazing Judgment on the Egyptians, to be under thick darkness for three days, Exod. 10.22, 23. What a dreadful dungeon would this world be without the light of Sun, or Moon, or Stars, or Candle, though you were not in pain, nor want of other outward enjoyments, yet it would be no desirable place to continue in. Oh then, what will be the sadness, frights, and fears of these captives for ever, that shall be in pain, in torment, and in darkness forever. If a man were to live all his days in a Palace, there to have rich Provisions to feed upon, and beds of down to lodge upon, but yet to be always in the dark, would be a great affliction to him: Oh then, what will it be to live in pain and darkness too? to lie and roul & tumble in a bed of flames, in a lake of Brimstone, and in darkness too? to be amongst Devils, and this in darkness too? and must not that be a place of darkness for ever, where the light of God's countenance shall not shine upon the prisoners there forever?