The True Bounds of Christian Freedom
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Weight | .44 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7.13 × 4.75 × 0.5 in |
ISBN | 9780851510835 |
Binding | Paperback |
Topic | The Law |
Original Pub Date | 1645 |
Banner Pub Date | Feb 1, 1964 |
Page Count | 224 |
Format | Book |
Series | Puritan Paperbacks |
Book Description
- Does our being made free by Christ free us from the law?
- Does our being made free by Christ deliver us from all punishments or chastisements for sin?
- Is it consistent with Christian freedom to be under obligation to perform duties because God has commanded them?
- May Christ’s freemen come into bondage again through sin?
- Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties out of respect for the recompense of the reward?
- Does the freedom of a Christian free him from all obedience to men?
The True Bounds of Christian Freedom is a clear, scriptural exposition of the place of the law in the life of the Christian. One of the few works currently available which shows the danger of Antinomianism, while also avoiding legalism.
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PUBLISHERS' INTRODUCTION | 9 | |
TO THE CHRISTIAN READER | 13 | |
1 | TRUE CHRISTIAN FREEDOM | 17 |
The nature of Christian freedom | 19 | |
The quality of Christian freedom | 21 | |
The branches of Christian freedom | 22 | |
1. Freedom in its negative aspects | 22 | |
(i) Freedom from Satan | 22 | |
(ii) Freedom from sin | 23 | |
(iii) Freedom from the law | 28 | |
(a) Freedom from the law as a covenant | 28 | |
(b) Freedom from the curses of the law | 30 | |
Five reasons why the law cannot condemn the believer | 32 | |
True and false appeals from the court of the law | 33 | |
(c) Freedom from the accusations of the law | 34 | |
(d) Freedom from the rigour of the law | 40 | |
(iv) Freedom from obedience to men | 44 | |
(v) Freedom from death | 45 | |
(vi) Freedom from the grave | 46 | |
2. Freedom in its positive aspects | 47 | |
2 | THE MORAL LAW A RULE OF OBEDIENCE | 51 |
QUERY 1: Are Christians freed from the moral law as a rule of obedience? | ||
The Scriptural uses of the word 'law' | 54 | |
Proposition 1: The law remains as a rule of walking for the people of God | 59 | |
The testimony of the Reformed Confessions | 59 | |
The testimony of the New Testament | 61 | |
Five proofs of the binding nature of the law | 64 | |
Five further arguments for obedience to the law | 66 | |
Application (i) Against Papists | 69 | |
(ii) Against Antinomians | 70 | |
(iii) To all believers | 73 | |
3 | LAW AND GRACE | 77 |
Proposition 2: The law is not incompatible with grace | 77 | |
Seven purposes for which the law was given | 78 | |
Five reasons why the law is not incompatible with grace | 84 | |
Objections answered: | ||
(i) That the law as a covenant is incompatible with grace | 88 | |
(ii) That the law is not the covenant of grace, nor a third covenant and must therefore be a covenant of works | 93 | |
(iii) That as the covenants of law and of grace are opposites, the law cannot be linked with grace | 101 | |
4 | CHASTISEMENTS FOR SIN | 110 |
QUERY 2: Are Christians freed from all punishments and chastisements for sin? | ||
Does chastisement pertain to the Old Testament only? | 112 | |
New Testament teaching about chastisement | 115 | |
Various cavils answered | 117 | |
Main arguments against chastisement stated and answered | 121 | |
Five reasons why God chastens His people | 123 | |
Concluding considerations | 125 | |
5 | PERFORMANCE OF DUTY | 130 |
QUERY 3: If a believer is under the moral law as a rule of duty is his liberty in Christ infringed? | ||
Three mistakes with regard to the performance of duty | 131 | |
(i) The case of such as wait for the Spirit to move them to obedience | 132 | |
(ii) The case of such as think they are to do nothing else but pray | 136 | |
(iii) The case of such as think they are to perform duty because their own hearts incline them to it | 136 | |
Four ways in which the believer is free from duty | 138 | |
Nine differences between legal obedience and evangelical obedience | 140 | |
Delight in duty | 144 | |
6 | PARTIAL BONDAGE | 148 |
QUERY 4: Can Christ's freemen sin themselves into bondage again? | ||
Two kinds of bondage: | 148 | |
1. Universal bondage | 148 | |
2. Partial bondage | 149 | |
(i) A bondage in respect of comfort | 150 | |
The five-fold peace of a Christian man | 156 | |
(ii) A bondage in respect of the manner of obedience | 157 | |
7 | OBEDIENCE FOR THE SAKE OF REWARD | 159 |
QUERY 5: May Christ’s freemen perform duties for the sake of reward? | ||
Three opinions respecting this stated and examined | 159 | |
What is meant by rewards? | 163 | |
What is meant by the eyeing of rewards? | 164 | |
Is the eyeing of rewards an infringement of Christian liberty? | 165 | |
1. With reference to temporal blessings | 166 | |
2. With reference to spiritual benefits | 178 | |
3. With reference to eternal rewards | 190 | |
(i) The lawfulness of it | 195 | |
(ii) The necessity of it | 201 | |
8 | OBEDIENCE TO MEN | 206 |
QUERY 6: Are Christians freed from obedience to men? | ||
Two kinds of subjection | 206 | |
Obedience to the civil magistrate | 208 | |
9 | THE APPLICATION TO BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS | 211 |
The miserable bondage of the unbeliever | 211 | |
(i) To sin | 211 | |
(ii) To Satan | 214 | |
(iii) To the law of God | 215 | |
The duty of the believer | 218 | |
(i) To maintain Christian liberty | 218 | |
(ii) Not to abuse Christian liberty | 223 |
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