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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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2. Christ hath set us free from the dominion of sin. The Sinner was the Captive, and Sin the Lord and Conqueror; but he that is made free by Christ, is become the Conqueror, and Sin the Captive; the Victory indeed is not yet completed, yet sin is dethroned; the sinner when a captive was in chains; but now made free, sin is become bound. Sin was delighted in, but now it is abhorred; sin was voluntarily yielded unto, but now resisted and opposed; sin was welcomly entertained, but now lamented and bewailed; it was looked upon with pleasure and content, but now it is beheld with a sorrowful heart, and with a ⟨p. 184⟩weeping eye; it is become the burden and the grief, that before had the love and complacency of the sinner's heart; it is now prayed against, and watched against, and endeavoured against, that before was indulged, and allowed, and provided for, and willingly submitted to. Now saith the redeemed sinner, my hard heart is a burden to me; my proud and unbelieving heart is a burden and a grief unto me; my vain and worldly heart is a burden and a trouble, and a sorrow to me; he is freed from the reigning power of sin, Rom. 6.14.
2. Christ hath set us free from the dominion of sin. The Sinner was the Captive, and Sin the Lord and Conqueror; but he that is made free by Christ, is become the Conqueror, and Sin the Captive; the Victory indeed is not yet compleated, yet sin is dethroned; the sinner when a captive was in chains; but now made free, sin is become bound. Sin was delighted in, but now it is abhorred; sin was voluntarily yielded unto, but now resisted and opposed; sin was welcomly entertained, but now lamented and bewailed; it was looked upon with pleasure and content, but now it is beheld with a sorrowful heart, and with a ⟨p. 184⟩weeping eye; it is become the burden and the grief, that before had the love and complacency of the sinner's heart; it is now prayed against, and watched against, and endeavoured against, that before was indulged, and allowed, and provided for, and willingly submitted to. Now saith the redeemed sinner, my hard heart is a burden to me; my proud and unbelieving heart is a burden and a grief unto me; my vain and worldly heart is a burden and a trouble, and a sorrow to me; he is freed from the reigning power of sin,