t I O That thoughwedte, yetireare redcemedfromdeath. " ' theworld,' Satan dare neuer after call it into quefiion,vnles he doe it (like many. cot:t_iztious Men in thefe daies)rather that he may trouble and vexe them; with a tedious fiiit, than for anyhope ofpreuailingin the end. And thus you fee that Chrifl hath redeemed all the faithful' out of Satans thral- dome,notwithflanding that he (lilt affauiteth them with his tetnptations ; neither loth hee hereby ouercome them and agaiue inthrall them in his captiuitie, but rather by God3 ble(fìng they ferue to flrengthen them in thefpirituall graces ofGods fpirit,and to confirme them in the full affurance of their faluation. §.seT. g. Sixtly,the tempterwill obiedl that wce 1111 die,and there- Tbat tbo egb fore are not redeemed and delivered out of the bondage of we Elie, yet we death. To which we mayanfwere, that Gods iuft fentence are redeemed once denounced could not be reuoked,Gcn.7.t9, Dull rhos: Pm death. art,andinto dug thou,hhit return; and therefore theApoffle Hcb'3't9' faith,Heb..y.27.h is appornted vntoall men that they¡ball once Heft, g, dre.But asÄhajhuerri ,thoughhe couldnot reuoke ÿ fentence ofdeath agaìnfl the Imes after it was once pronounced, be- caufe it was a decree ofthe Medes andPerfians which might not bealtred; yet at fiel!ers fuite Pent out another decree, whereby hee armedand flrengthened the Icwes againft their enemies,to the end they might refit, ouercome and deflroy them : fo the Lordhauing pronounced the fentenceof death againfl all the fonnes ofeßdrtiin, could not reu:oke his decree and fentence, as being ferre more vnchanryeable than the decreeofthe Medes and Perfians, yet at the fuite of our Sa- uiour Chrifl bee madeanother decree, whereby wee might be armed againfl our enemic death, and ouercome him. So that now though we die, yet are we notfubieavnto death, neither íhall wee bee held vnder the dominion thereof; though weeare not whollie exempted fromdeath, yet now thenature thereofis quite altred; for heretofore it was vn- conquerable, but now eafilieouercome; heretofore it Vk'a a curie for fnne, but now turned into an exceedingbleffïng, as deriuing vnto vs many benefits; for fir(1it freethvs from all our affli&ions, with which in this life wee are fomuch xtiolefled; it deliucreth vs from the irkfome companyofpro- phane d
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