4thly. The miseries that attend this
condition are innumerable. Bondage to Satan, sin, and the world, comprises
the sum of them; from all which we are delivered by the death of Christ, as
a price or ransom. “God hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and
hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son; in whom we have
redemption through his blood,” Col. i.
13, 14. And he “redeems us from all iniquity,” Tit. ii. 14; “from our vain
conversation,” 1 Pet.
i. 18, 19; even from the guilt and power of our sin; purchasing
us to himself “a peculiar people, zealous of good works,” Tit. ii. 14: so dying for the
“redemption of transgressions,” Heb. ix.
15; redeeming us also from the world, Gal. iv.
5.