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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. 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, Rev. 14.13. but at death the sorrow of the Devil's Captives doth begin, or is encreased; ⟨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 fruitlesly lament their woful state, and their irrecoverably-lost-happiness.
3. Death to the Lord's Free-men is the gate to glory, and their passage and entrance into eternal life: It is the opening of the door to let them into their Father's house; a Messenger sent by God to fetch them into the presence of their God and Redeemer, to live, and reign, and dwell with him forever, that their freedom here begun might be consummated and perfected in heaven. In that very day they die, they are admitted as free Citizens of the glorious Kingdom of God,