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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68657	The price of our redemption A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the sixt of Aprill last, 1617. By Charles Richardson, preacher at Saint Katherines neere the Tower of London.	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 21015; ESTC S106048	53,639	140

him with chaines carried him to babel and put him in prison til the day of his death But we need not go so farre for examples Many of our poor brethren do suffer lamentable miserie vnder the barbarous Turke and cruell Spaniard But all this is nothing in comparison of the bondage of a sinner that is not redeemed by Iesus Christ For in all bodily slaueries still the mind and the soule is free all the tyrants in the worlde haue no power ouer that As our Sauiour Christ said Feare not them which kill the bodye but are not able to hurt the soule Math. 10 28. c. But here the very soule also is in bondage Neuer was there any bondslaue endured greater villany and drudgerie vnder any earthly master though neuer so hard and cruell then euerie impenitent sinner doth vnder sinne and the deuill Mathew 8 9. As the Centurion had his seruants at his becke that he saide to one go and he goeth to another come and he commeth and to his seruant doe this and he doth it So the deuill hath all wicked men at his commaundement if he bid them but go they are ready to run Hee hath taken them in a snare 2. Tim. 2 20. and leadeth them as a dog in a chaine He ruleth ouer them like a Prince and worketh in their hearts as in a shoppe Ephes 2 2 3. Titus 1. causing them to fulfill the will of the flesh and the minde and to serue diuers lustes and pleasures euen like slaues That which one speaketh of bodily seruants in Princes courts may much more be applyed vnto the seruants of sinne * Qui vitā seruilem agunt alienis negotus o●ci pantur c Petrarch de vita solitaria They that leade a seruile life are ocupied in other mens businesses and are ruled by the will of another mans becke and learn in another mans countenance what they must doe All that they haue is another mans another mans thresholde another mans house another mans sleepe another mans meate and which is worst of all another mans minde They neither weep nor laugh at their owne pleasure Quid interest nolens seruias an inuitus Nā etsi coacta seruitus miserabilis sed affectata miserior est Ber. de consid lib. 5. but they cast away their owne and put on another mans affections Finally they do another mans businesse they think another mans thought they liue another mans life I cannot see what difference there is between these persons and such as are iudged to perpetuall imprisonment but that the one are bound in Iron and the other in Golden fetters the chaine is more honorable but the slauery is all alike This may serue first for such as are not yet redeemed to stirre them vp to bewaile their wretched and miserable condition The people of Israel when they wer in bondage in Egypt They sighed for the bondage Exo. 2 23 24. and cried made their moane to God And the poor prisoners as Dauid saith That dwell in darknesse and in the shadow of death being bound in misery and Iron Psa 107 10 13 do cry vnto the Lord in their trouble c. Much more should they that are the vassals of sinne and the prisoners of the Deuill and hell crie earnestly vnto God for deliuerance It is a lamentable thing to see how the God of this worlde hath blinded the mindes of Infidels 2 Cor. 4 4. that they see not the miserie of their wretched estate but rather count the seruice of sinne to be sweete and pleasant and thinke it the greatest liberty in the world if they may be suffered to sweare whore and be drunk and run to all excesse of riot without controlment Whereas if they had grace to see it there is no bondage as we haue heard before so greeuous as the bondage of sin Naturally a Nihil faedius seruitute Cicer. Phillipic 3. men doe abhorre bondage b Omnibus ita est libertas insita vt emori potius quam seruire praestaret Cic. in L. Pison and the loue of liberty is so deepely setled in the hart as that many chuse rather to die then to becom seruants But for a man that hath beene noblie borne and well brought vp to become a slaue it is the greatest miserie in the world Much more miserable is it for Man that was the most excellent creature on the earth made after Gods owne image Lord and ruler ouer all the creatures to bee brought into bondage and subiection * Cum omnis seruitus misera tum vero intolerabile est seruire impuro c Cic. Phil. 3. But as all seruice is miserable so is it a most intollerable thing to be a seruant to a vile and base master But there is nothing so base in all the world as sinne and the deuill So that it may be truly said of euery wicked sinner that he is a seruant of seruants euen the basest vilest slaue that liueth And therefore let all such persons bee admonished neuer to giue rest vnto their soules neuer to come vpon their beds Psal 132 3 4. nor suffer their eies to sleepe nor their eye-liddes to slumber as Dauid saith in another case vntil they finde some comfortable assurance that they are redeemed deliuered from the power of darknesse Secondly for them that are redeemd by the death of Iesus Christ First it serueth to admonish them worthily to esteeme so great a benefite and to magnify the name of God who hath done so great things for them saying with Zacharias in his song Luke 1 68 69 Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel because hee hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised vp the horne of saluation vnto vs in the house of his seruant Dauid And certainly howsoeuer this benefite be nothing esteemed of carnall men who sauour nothing but the things of the flesh Romanes 8 5. yet they that haue once felt tasted the sweetnesse of it do contemne the wealth of all the world and with the Apostle Phil. 3 8. count it to be but dung in comparison of it And therefore they are carefull to stand fast in that libertie wherewith Christ hath made them free Gal. 5 1. And hauing once escaped from the filthinesse of the worlde 2 Peter 2 20. are loath to be entangled againe therein The Heathen man could say * Plane confiteor nihil fieri posse dementius quam scientem in cum locum venire vbi liber tatem sis perdi turus Cic. pro C. Raber I plainely confesse that nothing can bee more foolishly and madly done then for a man wittingly to come into that place where hee shall loose his libertie Much more should Christians make that account especially if they consider the worth of the price where-with they were redeemed They that once doe vnderstand what their Redemption cost the Lord they cannot but thinke