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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.
7. Christ doth not free us from the stroke of death: the Lord's free-men must be bound with death's bonds as well as others, Our souls and bodies are not free from dissolution, your bodies are not free from putrefaction; but yet we are freed from the sting of death; and death is not the same to the Lord's Free-men, as it is to the Devil's Bond-men.
Q. 2. What is the liberty that we have by Christ? This shall be managed in speaking to these two particulars. First, As this liberty and freedom is privative. Secondly, As it is positive; or, what we are freed from; and what it is that we are freed to.
1. What it is that believers are freed from by Christ; and these are great and sore evils, and such as would have made us unspeakably and eternally miserable if Christ had not freed us from them.
1. Christ hath delivered us, and set us free from the power of Satan, that he hath no more rule in us as formerly he had; he ⟨p. 182⟩