A36315:272
Captives bound in chains made free
Captives bound in chains made free by Christ their surety, or, The misery of graceless sinners and their recovery by Christ their saviour by T. Doolittle.
London: printed by A.H. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1674
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. In his first condition as created by God: then man was a free-man, bondage came in by sin: when man sinned he lost his freedom. And in this estate there was a three fold Liberty that man had.
1. Man was free from sin; not the least spot or stain by creation in this pure nature of man; he was then free from pride, and free from the inordinate love of the world, and from every thing offensive and displeasing to God. Eccles. 7. 29.—God made man upright. The uprightness of a man ⟨p. 157⟩renewed by sanctifying grace denotes the sincerity of his heart, though there be sin inherent in him. So Job was an upright man, Job 1. 1. But the uprightness of man at first created by God denoteth the perfect Image of God in the presence of that which was good, and absence of all sin. Gen. 1. 26, 27.
2. Man had a freedom or liberty of will, to will and to do what God did require from him.