340 / 772
Cor,
j.
z.
That
thole
who
are
once redee-
med cannot
againe
bee
brought
into
bondage.
iQh.
90.2.
g.
'31'2
That
th'o
fe'
to
ho
are truly
redeemed
are
neuer againe
toff.
b
and
endleffe
happineffe.Heretofore
it
was
the
diuels
fergeant
to
arrefi and carric
vs
without
baile, into the
perpetuallp6-
fon
ofvtter
darkeneffe,
but now it
is
the Lords gentleman
-
vfher
to
conduòi
and
place
vs
in
the kingdome
of
heauen.
Heretofore it
was
lik
e
the
diuels
cart
vtlerein
we
were
carri-
ed
to execution,now
it
is
like
Elias firie
Chariot
whereby
v
e
mount
vp
into heauen.And this
Paul
fhewetl; 2.Cor.
s.
i
.
we
know
(faith he)
that
if
the
earthy
houfi
of
this
tabernacle 6ede
-.
f
royed,lre
haue a
building
piteen
vs
of
Gcd,a
houfe not made
pith
hands,
but
etern.
ll
in the heauens.
Why
therefore fhould
tve
feare, nay why fhould
we
not
defire
death, feting now
it
is
unto
vs
aduantage
?as
it
is
Phil.
I.2
3
.
why fhould
we
not
de-.
fire
to
be
diffolued and
to
be
with Chriíi,
feeing
that
is
bets
of
all? as
it
is
verf. à
i
.
for
now
we
may fay,
not
that
we die,
but that
we depart
and
g.oe
to our
father,
as
our Sauiour
fpeaketh
Iohn
8.21.
But yet we
rnufi
take heede
that
we doe
not
itna
ine,that
death
in
it owne
nature
worketh
and
procureth for
vs
theft
great
benefits
;
for in it
felfe
this temporarie death
is
but
a
üep to
euerlafiing death,
and
as
it
were
a
fearefull
prologue
to
a
more
fearefull
tragedie:but
our Sauiour
Chriíi it
is alone..
who
hath gathered
holefome
honey out
of
this
porn
itious
poyfon, and by mingling
the
flefh
of
this venemous ferpent
with
his
owne moii
precious
blood,
he
hath
made
thereof
a
holefome
Triade.
And
thus
haue
I prooued,notwithflanding
Satans
tempta-
tions
and
obiedions,that
Chriíi
bath
perfectly redeemed vs,
out
of
the
hands ofaIl our
fpiritual enemies;
now
in
the
MI'
place
Satan
fuggefieth,
that
though
Chrif}
hath once redee-
med
vs,
yet we
may
come
into their bondage againe,
and
.
then there
is
no hope
ofa
fecond
redemption. But
we
are
to
know that our
Redeemer
is
G
e,d
omnipotent,
whofe power
all
the
power
of
hell
cannot
withfiand;
and therefore
no-
thing
is
able to
plucke
vs
out
of
his hand,
as
himfelfe
fpeaketh
Iohn
ío.28.
neither
are we
to thinke, that
he
will
eafily
and.
willingly
lofe
them,which
he fo
intirely loues
that
he fpared
not
his precious
blood, but
freely gaue
it
as
a
price
of
their
redemption.,And therefore,as
he.
is
able,
perfeCtfy
to
faue ail
thole
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