Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

5. Captives and bond-slaves meet with hard usage in their hard work and base employment; many times are fed with bread and water, and that in small allowance too, are whipped and beaten when they have put forth their strength to do their utmost, they have stripes and blows instead of reward for what they do. Thus Israel in Egyptian bondage was beaten when forced to gather stubble instead of straw, could not bring in the full tale of bricks, Exod. 5.14, 15, 16. So the Devil's captives that lay themselves out most in the Devil's service, shall have their wages; but what? plagues and punishments here and hereafter, lashes, stripes and wounds. And that,

5. Captives and bond-slaves meet with hard usage in their hard work and base employment; many times are fed with bread and water, and that in small allowance too, are whipt and beaten when they have put forth their strength to do their utmost, they have stripes and blows instead of reward for what they do. Thus Israel in Egyptian bondage was beaten when forced to gather stubble instead of straw, could not bring in the full tale of bricks, Exod. 5.14, 15, 16. So the Devil's captives that lay themselves out most in the Devil's service, shall have their wages; but what? plagues and punishments here and hereafter, lashes, stripes and wounds. And that,

1. Sometimes from God in this world; they have punishments and judgments inflicted upon them by a just and righteous, angry God, who scourgeth them often in this life for their Sin, and plagueth them for their iniquity. So those that are slaves unto their lusts are punished with filthy diseases in their bodies, Prov. 7.22. He ⟨p. 26⟩goeth after her (a whorish Woman) straightway as an Ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the flocks. 23. Till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. 26. She hath cast down many wounded; yea many strong men have been slain by her. 27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. And this you may too often see and observe in the Weekly Bills of Mortality, that these silly filthy slaves of lust are rewarded with the loss of life. So those that are slaves to their sensitive appetite, and given to please their flesh in excessive eating and drinking are brought to poverty,