A36315:314
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
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1. Believers by Christ are free to a state of friendship and favour with God. As there is a a freedom betwixt friends, so there is betwixt God and his redeemed by Christ, that are partakers of the benefits of his redemption; from a state of enmity to a state of friendship and reconciliation; ⟨p. 174⟩God is no more your enemy, nor you any longer enemies to God, a peace is made by Christ betwixt God and your souls, and this is a firm, and lasting, an everlasting peace, Col. 1. 20, 21. Now with comfort thou mayst conclude, though men do hate me, yet God doth love me; though men are my enemies, yet God is my friend, my surest and my fastest friend.
1. Believers by Christ are free to a state of friendship and favour with God. As there is a a freedom betwixt friends, so there is betwixt God and his redeemed by Christ, that are partakers of the benefits of his redemption; from a state of enmity to a state of friendship and reconciliation; ⟨p. 174⟩God is no more your enemy, nor you any longer enemies to God, a peace is made by Christ betwixt God and your souls, and this is a firm, and lasting, an everlasting peace, Col. 1. 20, 21. Now with comfort thou may'st conclude, though men do hate me, yet God doth love me; though men are my enemies, yet God is my friend, my surest and my fastest friend.
2. By Christ Believers are free to a state of Justification, the righteousness of Christ is freely imputed to them. That as the Devils Captives are under the imputation of Adam's disobedience, so the Lords freemen are under the imputation of Christs righteousness and obedience, Rom. 5. 19