Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

5. Christ will then so free them from all imperfections that they shall be made like to Christ's glorious body. And can we desire greater freedom for our bodies, than to be made like to Christ's glorious body, Phil. 3.21.

6. Christ doth free all his from the damnation of Hell, that when the Devils Captives shall be pained and tormented by exquisite and unspeakable punishment, rolling and tumbling, shrieking and howling, and with bitter cries lamenting themselves, the redeemed of Christ shall never be touched with the flames of that fire; the second death shall have no power over them, Rev. 20.6. Christ will take care, that those that love him above all, and choose him before all, shall never come into condemnation, Joh. 3.16.18. Oh what mercy is this, to be freed from Hell! Oh what grace and kindness is this, to those that once were Captives, and had deserved it, and were in danger of it, that by Christ they should be freed and delivered from it! Oh what mercy would the damned, that have ⟨p. 191⟩felt the pains and punishment of hell, think, say, and confess it to be, if they may be let out and freed from it: But they are in it, and shall never be delivered from it; but the Lord's free-men are out of it, and shall never be cast into it; so great is the liberty we have by Christ the Redeemer of Captives, in respect of what we are freed from.

6. Christ doth free all his from the damnation of Hell, that when the Devils Captives shall be pained and tormented by exquisite and unspeakable punishment, rowling and tumbling, shrieking and howling, and with bitter cries lamenting themselves, the redeemed of Christ shall never be touched with the flames of that fire; the second death shall have no power over them,