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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.
6. Pray to God that he would have mercy on thee, and pity thee in thy bondage, and help thee out. As a poor prisoner, looks through the grates to Heaven, and say, Lord, some pity for a poor Prisoner, some relief and help for a poor Captive. Lord, I am in chains of sin, but cannot break them, held fast by Satan, oh let me not perish; oh let me not live and dye in this spiritual bondage? the ransom is paid for my redemption, I give my self to thee, upon my knees, I do resign my self, my ⟨p. 207⟩will, my love, my heart, and all to thee. Sinner, Wilt thou, when thou comest home, not sit and talk vainly, and not sit idly as heretofore; but go apart, and beg of God for mercy, and do it earnestly; for it is for thy life, thy Soul.
6. Pray to God that he would have mercy on thee, and pity thee in thy bondage, and help thee out. As a poor prisoner, looks through the grates to Heaven, and say, Lord, some pity for a poor Prisoner, some relief and help for a poor Captive. Lord, I am in chains of sin, but cannot break them, held fast by Satan, oh let me not perish; oh let me not live and dye in this spiritual bondage? the ransome is paid for my redemption, I give my self to thee, upon my knees, I do resign my self, my ⟨p. 207⟩will, my love, my heart, and all to thee. Sinner, Wilt thou, when thou comest home, not sit and talk vainly, and not sit idly as heretofore; but go apart, and beg of God for mercy, and do it earnestly; for it is for thy life, thy Soul.
2. Exhortation: To you that are set at liberty; Your privilege is a singular privilege, and calleth for something singular from you. You were debtors to God, and prisoners to his Justice, and were liable to everlasting imprisonment in the life to come; but Christ hath made you free, and you are free indeed, Joh. 8.36. Stir up and awaken your selves to these following duties.