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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 5-8
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Secondly, There is a great mercy in being loosed and made free from the curse of the Law. Thus also the Son makes us free (Gal. 3.13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us; that is, enduring the curse for us, or dying accursed death for us, that we might have, and for ever enjoy a blessed life: This is a glorious liberty.
Secondly, There is a great mercy in being loosed and made free from the curse of the Law. Thus also the Son makes us free (Gal. 3.13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us; that is, enduring the curse for us, or dying acursed death for us, that we might have, and for ever enjoy a blessed life: This is a glorious liberty.
Thirdly, To be freed from the old legal ceremonies, is the privilege of all believers under the Gospel; and 'tis such a privilege as the Apostle exhorted the Galatians, and us with them, ⟨p. 332⟩to maintain with all our might (Gal. 5.1.) Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage; that is, with the bondage of the ceremonial Law, from which Christ hath made us free (Gal. 4.26.) Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all; free, First, from the slavery of sin; free, Secondly, from the curse of the Law; free, Thirdly, from the yoke of legal ceremonies. All believers are made thus free by Christ, but Christ hath not made so much as one believer free from service. Christ makes us free to serve, not free from serving. To be be free to serve, is infinitely better than to be free from service; nothing is more ingenuous, nothing shows a more noble spirit in man, than to be free to serve, as all are, being once freed from spiritual or sin-slavery (