Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

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, Prov. 23.21. and to death, digging their graves with their own teeth. And if they do escape outward judgments on body and estate, yet they are under Spiritual judgments on their Souls, as blindness of mind, hardness of heart, loss of God's favour, under the reigning power of sin, which are a thousand times worse than any bodily plagues, though less lamented.

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) straitway as an Ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the slocks. 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,