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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
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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.
Doct. 2. THE second general Head containing the glad tidings to these miserable Captives, is that there is Liberty to be had by Christ; or, that it is by Christ, and had by Christ alone that poor captive sinners are delivered and set at liberty. Had it not been for Christ, we must have perished in our Bonds, and remained in perpetual slavery while we had lived, and been for ever bound in chains of darkness, when we die. Isa. 59.20. applied to Christ, Rom. 11.26. Acts 4.12. John 8.36.
Doct. 2. THE second general Head containing the glad tydings to these miserable Captives, is that there is Liberty to be had by Christ; or, that it is by Christ, and had by Christ alone that poor captive sinners are delivered and set at liberty. Had it not been for Christ, we must have perished in our Bonds, and remained in perpetual slavery while we had lived, and been for ever bound in chains of darkness, when we die. Isa. 59.20. applied to Christ, Rom. 11.26. Acts 4.12. John 8.36.
Man might be considered in a four-fold State.