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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.
Liberty to the Captives. › Chapter 12: Containing the Uses of the Whole.
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.
For is it not reasonable, you should be his Servants that brings you from this slavery? And if he purchase and buy you out, is it not reasonable, you should take him for your Lord, and obey him? and that universally, submitting to all his Laws, even to those that are most spiritual, and cross to your corrupt hearts & most beloved sins; not pick and choose, but to have respect unto them all, Psal. 119.6. constantly, not by fits and starts, not only when in straits and sickness, but at all times to have the frame, and bent, and inclination of your hearts to yield obedience to Christ, your Lord-Redeemer: freely and voluntarily as matter of your choice; from a free principle of love, because you love him, you will pray to him because you love him, you will hear from, and wait and attend upon him, rejoicing when you please him, grieving when you do offend him.
For is it not reasonable, you should be his Servants that brings you from this slavery? And if he purchase and buy you out, is it not reasonable, you should take him for your Lord, and obey him? and that universally, submitting to all his Laws, even to those that are most spiritual, and cross to your corrupt hearts & most beloved sins; not pick and chuse, but to have respect unto them all, Psal. 119.6. constantly, not by fits and starts, not only when in straits and sickness, but at all times to have the frame, and bent, and inclination of your hearts to yield obedience to Christ, your Lord-Redeemer: freely and voluntarily as matter of your choice; from a free principle of love, because you love him, you will pray to him because you love him, you will hear from, and wait and attend upon him, rejoicing when you please him, grieving when you do offend him.
If by these things you discover what you are, bond or free, I shall close the whole with an Exhortation to both sorts, both bond and free.