The True Bounds of Christian Freedom Quotes

“We cry down the law in respect of justification, but we set it up as a rule of sanctification. The law sends us to the Gospel that we may be justified; and the Gospel sends us to the law again to inquire what is our duty as those who are justified.”
― Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom

“The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can be abolished or changed.”
― Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom

“We cannot wait until we feel the Spirit moving us... We must obey God even when our heart is not in it- often to discover that our hearts come alive to our duty even while we do it.”
― Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom

“God has thoughts of love in all He does to His people. The ground of His dealings with us is love (though the occasion may be sin), the manner of His dealings is love, and the purpose of His dealings is love,. He has regard, in all, to our good here, to make us partakers of His holiness, and to our glory hereafter, to make us partakers of His glory.”
― Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom

“If Christ has freed us from the penalties, how ought we to subject ourselves to the precepts! If He has delivered us from the curses, how ought we to study the commands! If He paid our debt of sin, certainly we owe a debt of service.”
― Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom

“We are not under its [the laws] curses, but we are under its commands. We are not under the law for judgement, but we are under the law for conduct.”
― Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom

“The law in its directive power remains with the believer. This must needs be plain from the words: 'the law which was for hundred and thirty years after (the promise), cannot disannul (the promise), that it should make the promise of none effect' (Gal. 3:17). For if the law, as the apostle says, was given 430 years after the promise, then it was given either as a covenant or as a rule. But as a covenant it could not be given, for then God would have acted contrary to Himself, first in giving a covenant of grace and then of works. Therefore He have it as a rule, to reveal to us, after our justification by the promise, a rule of walking with God so that in all things we might please Him.”
― Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom

“The law sends us to the Gospel that We may be justified; and the Gospel sends us to the law again to inquire what is our duty as those who are justified.”
― Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom