Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

1. Death to Free-men of the Lord is the utter abolition of their sin; it shall free them from the very being and in-dwelling of sin: when the soul shall be separated from the body, all sin, and all corruption shall be separated from the soul: whereas the Devil's bond-men die in their sin, and after death do still retain their hatred unto God, their enmity to Christ, and are more confirmed and hardened in it than before.

1. Death to Free-men of the Lord is the utter abolition of their sin; it shall free them from the very being and in-dwelling of sin: when the soul shall be seperated from the body, all sin, and all corruption shall be separated from the soul: whereas the Devil's bond-men die in their sin, and after death do still retain their hatred unto God, their enmity to Christ, and are more confirmed and hardened in it than before.

2. Death to the Lord's Freemen puts an end to all their sorrow and affliction, to all their troubles and their sufferings. It is God's Handkerchief, whereby he wipes away all tears from the eyes of his redeemed people, Rev. 14.13. but at death the sorrow of the Devil's Captives doth begin, or is increased; ⟨p. 186⟩if they were at ease while they lived, they shall be in pain when they die: if they did roar and sing while they lived, they shall roar and lament after death: Death takes them from their riches, from their friends, and from their pleasure, and whatsoever was dear unto them in this world's enjoyments, and puts them into a place of pain and torment, a place of utter darkness, where they shall for ever weep and howl, and fruitlessly lament their woeful state, and their irrecoverably-lost-happiness.

2. Death to the Lord's Freemen puts an end to all their sorrow and affliction, to all their troubles and their sufferings. It is God's Handkerchief, whereby he wipes away all tears from the eyes of his redeemed people,