A36315:286
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.
4. This spiritual freedom by Christ doth not exempt us nor excuse us from the service we owe to men in the places and relations wh[…] God hath set us. Indeed the Lords […] must not be the servants of men, so as •o […]e men in that in which they will displease God, 1 Cor. 7. 23. but yet one that is the Lords free man, might be in the place of a servant to man, and ought to follow his calling and mind his Masters business, and that with greater care and conscience than others do, even to such Masters as be the servants of sin, Ephes. 6. 5, 6. 1 Pet. 2. 18. Gal. 5. 13. And to such Masters that are the Lords free-men, 1 Tim. 6. 1, 2.
4. This spiritual freedom by Christ doth not exempt us nor excuse us from the service we owe to men in the places and relations wh〈…〉 God hath set us. Indeed the Lords 〈…〉 must not be the servants of men, so as •o 〈…〉e men in that in which they will displease God, 1 Cor. 7. 23. but yet one that is the Lords free man, might be in the place of a servant to man, and ought to follow his calling and mind his Masters business, and that with greater care and conscience than others do, even to such Masters as be the servants of sin, Ephes. 6. 5, 6. 1 Pet. 2. 18. Gal. 5. 13. And to such Masters that are the Lords free-men,