Suffer the continued work of exhortation. It is your duty to labour to maintain Christian freedom. It was dearly purchased for you and mercifully bestowed on you, and therefore should not be weakly lost. Nor should it be maintained in a willful way. It was given in mercy and must be kept in judgment. We must use the judgment of discretion in rejecting or embracing doctrines. We are neither blindly to subject ourselves to them, no matter how holy and learned they may be who teach them, nor are we to reject them perversely.
The True Bounds of Christian Freedom, Samuel Bolton, Banner of Truth Trust, page 222.
That is one powerful and convicting quote. "dearly purchased and mercifully bestowed..."
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ReplyDeleteAnd I get to read these words for myself in the wonderful copy you gave me, Persis! Yay!
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I love that last sentence especially well!
ReplyDeleteOh, this is so good!
ReplyDeleteDitto to the previous comments! I have a copy of this book but have yet to crack it open; maybe I will and soon! Thanks for sharing...
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