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That
though
we
dte,
yet
ire
are
redcemed
from
death.
"
'
the
world,'
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
any
hope
ofpreuailing
in
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
tempter
will
obiedl
that
wce
1111
die,and there-
T
bat
tbo
egb
fore
are
not
redeemed and delivered
out
of
the bondage
of
we
Elie,
yet
we
death.
To
which
we may
anfwere,
that Gods
iuft fentence
are
redeemed
once
denounced
could
not be
reuoked,Gcn.7.t9, Dull
rhos:
Pm
death.
art,
and
into
dug
thou
,h
hit
return;
and
therefore the
Apoffle
Hcb'3't9'
faith,Heb..y.27.h
is appornted
vnto
all
men
that
they
¡ball
once
Heft,
g,
dre.But
as
Ähajhuerri
,though
he could
not reuoke ÿ
fentence
ofdeath
agaìnfl the
Imes
after
it
was once
pronounced,
be-
caufe
it
was
a
decree
of
the Medes and
Perfians which
might
not
be
altred;
yet at
fiel!ers
fuite
Pent
out another
decree,
whereby
hee armed
and flrengthened the Icwes againft
their
enemies,to
the
end
they might
refit,
ouercome
and
deflroy
them
:
fo
the
Lord
hauing pronounced
the fentence
of
death
againfl
all
the
fonnes
of
eßdrtiin,
could
not
reu:oke
his decree
and
fentence,
as
being
ferre
more
vnchanryeable
than the
decree
of
the Medes and Perfians, yet at the
fuite
of
our
Sa-
uiour Chrifl
bee made
another
decree, whereby
wee
might
be armed againfl our
enemic death, and ouercome
him.
So
that
now
though
we
die, yet
are
we
notfubiea
vnto death,
neither íhall
wee
bee held vnder
the dominion
thereof;
though
wee
are
not
whollie
exempted from
death, yet now
the
nature
thereofis
quite
altred;
for
heretofore
it
was
vn-
conquerable,
but
now
eafilie
ouercome; heretofore it
Vk'a
a
curie for
fnne, but
now turned
into
an
exceedingbleffïng,
as
deriuing vnto
vs
many
benefits;
for
fir(1
it
freeth
vs
from
all
our
affli&ions,
with which
in this
life
wee are
fomuch
xtiolefled;
it
deliucreth
vs
from the
irkfome company
ofpro-
phane
d