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V
E
R.7.
Ephe/1
ns,Chap.
i.
yogi
are
free
indeed
;
What
reply
they
We
are the
Tonnes
of
Abraham,
we
were
never in
bondage
; Spirituals
thraldome could not
enter
their
thoughts. Looke
as
it
was
with thofe
men
Eti/h.s
did lead
to
Samaria,
thofe
bands
of
the Syrians,
fo
fareth
it with
thefe;
while
the Devill
leadeth them to hell, wherethey
willdye
without repentance,feethem
-
felves in
the
midit ofmurdring fpirits,they follow him
as
ifthey
went to
heaven it
felfe,
as
thofe followed,
being led with
a
miff
depraving their
fight,they followed to the
city
of
their enemies,thinking
they
had gone
to Damaf
ue,
their owne ftrength
:
Many
fuch foules
there
are led
in
this
fafhion, who
yet will
have
the Devill
in
their mouths, and
defie
him
in
words,
as
having nothing
to
doe with him
;
but
as
many
profe!
%in
words
that they
deny
in
deede, fo many
defie in
word
that
theydoe
in
worke. Take
a
young gallant, who now
in
his ruffe
doth fwagger it,
and runne the
next
why
to the
hofpitall5 tell him
of
being poore,
he will
defie
that
ever
it rhould
come neere
him;
but yet while he
doth play the prodigall,
he
doth
go apace
in
the wayto beggery:
fb
thou
doD
defie
to be
in
bondage
to the
Devill,
and
follow
him
; but
while
thy ignorant minde,
thy
lufts,
thy
paflions,
cuftomes, corrupt example,
while thefe guide thee
hi
thy
courfe
of
life, the Devill
leadeth
thee,
as in a
firing,
to
all
he
pleafeth.
If
thou didit
never feele any fpirituall
bondage, this
is
tigne
enough thou art
Dill in
bondage
;
even
as
deadly
frckneffes
are felt
when now
nature
fomewhat recovereth
:
fo
bondage
is
felt
when now
God
refloreth
in
the beginnings,by worke
of
his
grace,
fome truc
liberty, then
a
man findeth his unregenerate
part yoake him,
the things
of
this world too much
prevailing
over him,that he thinketh
himfelfe
even fold under finne and captive
to it.
Obferve thirdly, that
we have deliverance from our
fpirituall
thral-
DGc7.
dome by
Chrift
:
Chrift
for this
is
called
our Redeemer, or Redempti-
on
of
his
people,
who
doth deliver them from the hand
of
all
their
enemies
:
that
they
may
[erne
the
Lordwithoutfeare.
Thofe whom God
did raite up
to
redeeme
his
people,
as
tato
fes,
the
Judges,
&c. yea thofe
who redeemed,as kinfmen,this or
that,were
fhadowes
of
this
our
great
Redeemer,
who
was
in
time
to
be revealed.
Now
redemption noteth
fometime the
a
&ion
of
God working
our deliverance, fometime
the
effe&
of
this aélion
in
us,
who
are
redeemed
and
inlarged;
thus it
is
here
taken
fora
Date
offreedome,which
beleevers attaine
through Chrift
his
redemption
:
and this
Date
is
twofold
;
eyther begunne onely in
this
life,
or confummare,
in
which
fenfe
we have
the
redemptionof
the
body,
Rem.
S. and
Chrift
is
faid
to
be made
our
redemption after our
fanEtification
;
where redemption noteth out that confummate
delive-
rance
from the bondage
of
mortality it
felfe,
which thefe
vile
bodies
of
,
Cor.r.3o.v.
ours
fhall
be
brought
unto
in
heaven. Here hefpeaketh
ofthe
former,
the word Re-
which faithfull ones are
brought
unto now believing
:
This
may
beam-
dempriodnex-
plified
by branches correfpondent tothe contrary bondage
;
for from
Pouned
what time we
are
in
Chrift,
we
are freed
from beingunder the Law,and
revenging juftice
of
God,
there
geingno
condemnation
tothofe
that
are
in
Chrift,
Rom.
S.
t.
Againe,
this
firong
man
is
caft
forth
from
what time
I
a
Chrift