child-like Love and willing Mind. All which were common alfo to Believers under the Law f: But under the New Teftament, the Liberty of Chriftians is further enlarged in their Freedom from the Yoke of the Ceremonial Law, to which the Jewish Church was fubjected ; and in greater Boldness of Access to the Throne of Grace, and in fuller Communications of the free Spirit of God, than Belie God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. v. 2. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we ftand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. e Rom. 8. 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the fons of God. v. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 1 John 4 18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love cafteth out fear: because fear hath torment: he that feareth is not made perfect in love. Gal. 3. 9. So then they which be of faith, are bleffed with faithful Abraham. v. 14. That the bleffing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jefus Chrift; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. art no more a fervant, but a fon; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Gal. s. 1. Stand faft therefore in the liberty wherewith Chrift hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Acts 15. 10. Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear: v, 11. But we believe, that through the grace of the Lord Jefus Chrift, we shall be faved even as they. Heb. 4.14. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is paffed into the heavens, Jefus the Son of God, let us hold faft our profeffion. v. 16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,that we may obtain merey,and find grace to help in time of need. Heb, 10. 19. Having therefore, brethren, Gal. 4. 1. Now I fay, that the boldness to enter into the holiest, by heir as long as he is a child, differeth the blood of Jesus, v, 20, By a nothing from a fervant, though he new and living way which he hath be lord of all; v. 2 But is under tu- confecrated for us through the vail, tors and governors, until the time that is to fay, his flesh; v. 21. And appointed of the father. v. 3. Even having an high priest over the house fo we, when we were children, were of God: v. 22. Let us draw near in bondage under the elements of with a true heart, in full affuthe world. v. 6. And because ye are rance of faith, having our hearts fons, God hath sent forth the Spirit sprinkled from an evil confcience, of his Son into your hearts, crying, and our bodies washed with pure Abba, Father. v. 7. Wherefore thou water. H 3 i John Believers under the Law did ordinarily partake of i. II. God alone is Lord of the Conscience, and hath left it free from the Doctrines and Commandments of Men, which are in any thing contrary to his Word, or befide it, in Matters of Faith or Worfhip. So that to believe fuch Doctrines, or to obey fuch Commandments out of Confcience, is to betray true Liberty of Confcience ; and the requiring of an implicite Faith, and an abfolute and blind Obedience, Jahn 7. 38. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath faid, out of his belly fhall flow rivers of living water. v.39. But this fpake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him, should receive; for the holy Ghoft was not yet given, because that Jefus was not yet glorified. 2 Cor, 3. 13. And not as Mofes which put a vail over his face, that the children of Ifrael could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished. v. 17. Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. v. 18. But we all with open face, beholding as in a glafs, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. k II. James 4. 12. There is one law giver who is able to fave, and to detroy who art thou that judgeft another? Ram. 14. 4. Who art thou that judgeft another mans fervant to his own mafter he ftandeth or falleth: Yea, he fhall be holden up: for God is able to make him ftand. Acts 4. 19. But Peter and John anfwered and faid unto them, Whether it be right in the fight of God to hearken unto you, more than unto God, judge ye. Acts 5.29. Then m Peter and the other Apostles anfwer- Col. 2. 20. Wherefore if yebe dead withChrift from the rudiments of the world; why, as though living in the world, are ye fubject to ordinances, v. 22. Which all are to perifh with the ufing, after the commandments and doctrines of men? v. 23. Which things have indeed a fhew of wifdom in will-worfhip and humility, and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the fatisfying of the flesh. Gal. 1.10. For do I now perfwade men, or God? dience, is to destroy Liberty of Confcience and Reafon alfo ". III. They who upon Pretence of Christian Liberty, do practise any Sin, or cherish any Luft, do thereby destroy the End of Christian Liberty; which is, That being delivered out of the Hands of our Enemies, we might ferve the Lord without Fear, in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the Days of our Life . or do I seek to please men? for ifI yet pleafed men, I should not be the fervant of Christ, Gal. 2. 4. And that because of false brethren una wares brought in, who came in privily to fpy out our liberty, which we have in Chrift Jefus, that they might bring us into bondage: v. s. To whom we gave place by fubjeЯtion, no not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. Gal.s.1. Stand faft theretore in the liberty wherewith Chrift hath made us free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage, IV. And ken in judgment; because he willingly walked after the commandment. Rev. 13. 12. And he exercifeth all the power of the first beaft before him, and causeth the earth, and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beaft, whofe deadly wound was healed. v. 16. And he caufeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; v. 17. And that no man might buy, or fell, fave he that had the mark, or the name of the beaft,or the number of his name, Jer. 8. 9. The wife men are afhamed, they are dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them? Rom, 10, 17. So then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Rom, 14. 23. And he that doubteth, is damned if he III. Gal. 5. 13. For,brethren,ye eat, because he eateth not of faith: have been called unto liberty, only for what foever is not of faith, is fin. fe not liberty for an occafion to the Ifa. 8.20. To the law and to the te- flesh, but by love, serve one another, ftimony: if they speak not accord- 1 Pet. 2. 16. As free, and not ufing ing to this word, it is because there your liberty for a cloak of malicioulis no light in them, Acts 17. 11, nefs, but as the feryants of God. These were more noble than thofe 2 Pet, 2. 19. While they promife in Theffalonica, in that they recei- them liberty, they themselves are ved the word with all readiness of the servants of corruption: for of mind, and fearched the fcriptures whom a man is overcome, of the daily, whether those things were fo. fame is he brought in bondage. John John 4. 22. Ye worship ye know not 8. 34. Jefus anfwered them, Verily, what we know what we worship: verily, I fay unto you, Whosoever for falvation is of the Jews. Hof. s. committeth fin, is the servant of fin, -11, Ephraim is oppressed, and bro-AH Luks IV. And because the Powers which God hath ordained, and the Liberty which Chrift hath purchafed, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually to uphold and preferve one another; they who upon Pretence of Chriftian Liberty, fhall oppofe any lawful Power, or the lawful Exercise of it, whether it be Civil or Ecclefiaftical, refift the Ordinance of God P. And for their publishing of fuch Opinions, or maintaining of fuch Practices as are contrary to the Light of Nature, or to the known Principles of Chriftainity, whether concerning Faith, Worship, or Converfation; or to the Power of Godliness; or fuch erroneous Opinions or Practices, as either in their own Nature, or in the Manner of publishing or maintaining them, are deftructive to the external Peace and Order which Chrift hath established in the Church; they may lawfully be called to Account, and proceeded against by the Cenfures of the Church, Luke 1.74. That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might ferve him without fear. v. 75. In holiness and righteoufnefs before him all the days of our life. IV. P Matth. 12. 25. And Jefus knew their thoughts, and faid unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to defolation: and every city or house divided against it felf, fhall not ftand. 1 Pet. 2. 13. Submit your felves to every ordinance of man for the Lords fake: whether it be to the king as fupreme; v. 14. Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him, for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well. v. 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciouf and nefs, but as the fervants of God. 9 Rom. 1. 32. Who knowing the judgment of God, (that they which commit fuch things are worthy of death) not only do the fame, but have pleasure in them that do them: With 1 Cor. 5. 1. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and fuch fornication as is not fo much as named amongst the Gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife. v. s. To deliver fuch I pafs against thee, go and tell him v. 20. fuch an one unto Satan, for the deftruction of the fiefh, that the spirit may be faved in the day of the Lord Jefus. v. 11. But now I have writter unto you, not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, cr an extortioner, with fuch an one, no not to eat. v. 13. But them that are without, God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourfelves that wicked perfon. 2 John 10. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God fpeed. v. 11. For he that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his evil deeds. And 2 Theff. 3. 14. And if any man obey not our word by this epiftle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. And 1 Tim. 6. 3. If any man teach otherwife, and confent not to wholfom words, even the words of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and to the doctrine which is accor- few things against thee, because ding to godliness; v.4. He is proud, thou haft there them that hold the knowing nothing, but doting about doctrine of Balaam, who taught queftions and ftrifes of words, Balac to caft a stumbling block bewhereof cometh envy, ftrife, rail- fore the children of Ifrael, to eat ings, evil furmifings, v. s. Perverse things facrificed unto idols, and to difputings of men of corrupt minds, commit fornication. v. 15. So haft and deftitute of the truth, supposing thou also them that hold the dothat gain is godliness: from fuch &trine of the Nicolaitans, which withdraw thy self. And Tit. 1. 10. thing I hate. v. 20. NotwithstandFor there are many unruly and vain ing, I have a few things against talkers and deceivers, efpecially they thee, because thou fuffereft that woof the circumcifion, v. 11. Whofe man Jezebel, which calleth her felf mouths must be ftopped,who fubvert a prophetefs, to teach, and feduce whole houses, teaching things which my fervants to commit fornication, they ought not,for filthy lucres fake. and to eat things facrificed unto v. 13. This witnefs is true: where- idols. Rev. 3. 9. Behold, I will fore rebuke them sharply, that they make them of the synagogue of Samay be found in the faith. And Tit. tan, (which lay they are Jews, and 3. 10. A man that is an heretick, are not, but do lie,) behold, I after the first and fecond admoni- will make them to come and wortion, reject. With Matth. 18. 15. fhip before thy feet, and to know Moreover, if thy brother fhall tref- that I have loved thee. · [ Dent, |