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362 CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS COUNTERFEI...
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The Cause Which Is Represented Hy This M...
freedom . They ought also to be careful not to be misled by any counterfeit There are or two corrup kinds tion of of it bondage . with which Christian liberty
is contrasted I . The first in this is that Epistl of e to servitude the Galatians to mere . ordinances . The themselve
to Galatian this bondage Christian , and s were St . in Paul great write danger s warml of subjectin y and anxiousl g y to s caution them against it" How turn again to the weak and
_beggarly rudiments whereunto . ye desire ye again to be in bondage ? Ye observe days , and months , and times , labour and years in vain . I am afraid Stand
of fast you therefore , lesfc I , " have he says bestowed again upon , " in you the liberty wherewith . " _" Christ hath made us free , and be not entangled again with the yoke ive of
had bondage ness and been . '* ' adop a The proclamation tion Gospel , and , its with qall of its deliverance to announcement peace , and . That sonshi of Divine temper p , and forg which unity - , _,
some of the Galatians were manifesting ; which sought to impose circumcision the observance upon of those the law who of were Moses not in born other Jews details , and to binding make
belonged upon Gentile to the believers covenant , was of a grace renunciation . It chose of instead the freedom what was which a
yoke "We of must bondage beware to the of supposing human spirit that . , this bondage of which the
Apostle erous speaks ceremonies is the mere He tr would ouble and hardl inconvenienc have spoken e of of observing
observ-Himself num ances , which as , an according intolerable . to his burden belief of , had which y been a man appointed might by rej God oice
from to be the rid , . Probabl observances y he did which not claim he saw for himself to be instrum any exemp ental tion in very
to bring do ing with a bondage and was upon concerned the Galatians about was . What the conscience St . Paul had the
, , the inward man sp stand irit of erect a man before . The God questi ? Can on he in approach his view the was Maker , -does ? hein
this and Jud deepest ge of sense all , with a free calmness man ? A , and That trust which , and could hope the endow Is word any , of with such a libertas the postle knewwas
reconciliation man freedom and wo adop uld tion be y deb , trul arred y received if a machinery hy , faith . of From rules such and
a men observances were interposed between the soul and God ,- if it assumed that God ' s favour was to be gained by conforming
were to observances which He had prescribed . It was not the mere fact of observing ordinances which made the difference between
irregular bondage Another mi and and ht defective freedom be . mi A scrupulous ght man yet whose easil about y reli be in g his ious sl dail avery practice y observance to ordinances was very of .
blessing religious rites of g freedom , and very mi in ght , soul at the and sam conscience e time , be before enjoying God the . The full
question was , where the trust was placed . Pie who trusted directly
362 Christian Liberty And Its Counterfei...
362 CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS COUNTERFEIT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/2/
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