A36315:317
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. By Christ believers are free to have communion with God in his Ordinances. God is no longer a stranger to them, nor they any longer strangers unto God; but have sweet converse ⟨p. 175⟩and fellowship with God, 1 Joh. 1. 3. They come to duty, and meet with God in duty; in praying, hearing, and receiving, they have experience of the gracious, powerful, and heart-quickening, and soul-comforting, cheering, softening influences of the Spirit of God, and of the goings forth of their Souls in love unto desires after, and delight in God. And when it is so, how sweet is this unto their Souls!
4. By Christ believers are free to have communion with God in his Ordinances. God is no longer a stranger to them, nor they any longer strangers unto God; but have sweet converse ⟨p. 175⟩and fellowship with God, 1 Joh. 1. 3. They come to duty, and meet with God in duty; in praying, hearing, and receiving, they have experience of the gracious, powerful, and heart-quickening, and soul-comforting, chearing, softning influences of the Spirit of God, and of the goings forth of their Souls in love unto desires after, and delight in God. And when it is so, how sweet is this unto their Souls!
5. By Christ believers are free to a right to heaven, and to the enjoyment of the blessed glorious God for ever in his Kingdom. They are made free to the happiness of the life to come; they shall have free admission into the heavenly Paradise; the gates of heaven shall be set wide open for their departing Souls, freely, without any stop or hinderance; they are free in part now, and they shall be perfectly free among the Saints in glory when they dye,