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gloriously ouer
them,and
freed
vs
out
of
their
tyrannical)
in-
But
if
it
may
be
obie
&ed
that
wee were
captiues
vnto Sa-
tan,
and therefore
the
price
ofredemption
was
to
bee paled
vnto him, and
not
vnto
God
the Father. who held
vs
not in
his captiuitie.
i
anfwere,
that though
Satan held
vs
in
his
captiuitie, yet
not
in his
owne
right,
for
wee had
not
finned
againa
him towhom
wee were
not bound
to
petforme
obe-
dience, nor
were
indebted vnto him
;
but
wee
had
finned
a
gainfl
God,
whofe
feruants
wee were
by
right
of
creation,
and
had
infinitly runne
into
his
debt,which
wee were
alto-
gether
vnable
to pay;
and
therefore
like
a
iufl
Iudge
he
con-
demned
vs
to
the
perpetuall prifon
of
death,and committed
vs
to the
cuflodie of
Satan,
as
veto
a
iaylor,to bee kept
in
his
bondage,
till wee had
fatisfied
for
our
finnes
and
difcharged
our debt
:
which
being
impoflîble
to
vs,
our
Sauiour
Chrift
hauing
affumed
our
nature andbecome
our
furetie
and
me-
diatour,paied
that
we
owed,
and
fuffered
that
which
we
had
deferued, and
fo
fully
fatisfying his fathers iuflice, hath
pur-
chafed our
redeiamption; fo as
now
Satan had
no more
autho-
ritie to
retaine
vs
in
his
captiuitie,then the
iaylcrr
hath
of
hol-
ding
him in prifon
who by the Iudge
is
releafed,or the exe-
cutioner
of
hanging himwhom the
fudge
hath acquitted or
pardoned. And therefore tyrannically
exercifing
Bill
his
iurifdi6ion,our
Sauiour
by flrong hand
ouercame
him and
all
the
power
of
hell,that
fo
he
might
fet
vs
at
libertie whom
his Fathers iufl fentence had
acquitted
and
his mercie
par-
doned.
The
1aíî
thing
to
be
confidered
is
the end
of
our
redempti-
on,namely,
that
wee
fhould
no longer
ferue finne
and
Satan,
out ofwhofe
bondage
we are
releafed;but
become
the
fer-
uants
of
Chrift, who bath
redeemed
vs,
feruing him in
holi
neflle
and
righteoufne
%all
the
dales
ofour
hues;
that
fo
glo-
rifying
him heere
on earth,he
may glorifie
vs
in
heauen,and
make
vs
partakers
of
thofc
euerlaf}mg
ioyes,
which
by
his
death
and
bloodhed
he
hath purchafed
for
vs..
CHAP,.