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364 CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS COUNTERFEI...
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The Cause Which Is Represented Hy This M...
dom of deliverance and freedom into which men might enter . The * repelled trie invitation d to keep by was the the given law rules -observance to prescribed men who of had the by the Pharisees been reli either gious , to pressed men those of who down the had day or
as did means not bring of earning them peace God ' s or favour righteousness , and had fri had , htened found and to that those their from whom efforts seek the
rigour of the Pharisaic injunctions gaway - ing King God dom at by all . Many of endeavoured ing from at burdensome once to push commands into the new and
restrictions . There way were escap those who would have professed themselves adherents of Jesus in the expectation of enjoying a condition testifthat His
king of " Think licence dom not was . Our that not Lord for I am those , therefore come who to broke , destroy was away obli the ged from law to or wh the olesome y prop break rules hets ; .
be one I am called of not these come the least le to ast destroy commandments in the , king but to dom fulfil , and of . heaven . shall . . Whosoever teach : but men whosoever so shall , he shall shall _, in the dom
do and teach themthe same shall be called great king , of heaven . _" in the he addressed to
the St . Galatians Paul similarl the y danger recollected that , liberty warnings might be mistaken for , he testifieshave been called into
licence . Whilst , therefore , , " Ye lib II erty False , " he " freedom adds , onl is y in use truth not liberty the second for an kind occasion of b to ondage the flesh from . "
left which . to Christ itself and would His swing , libert from y would , one kind set us of free bondage . Human to the nature other . _,,
intolerable When to restraints the , there , false , is freedom crushing a tendency which and to not is break another helping away name the from sp for irit them slavery , become and to
torun dissolvin appetite , and and passion destroy , and ing influences worldliness of . such In order libert to y escape men are from read the y
to authorit recall g the True oppressive 'iritual sway freedom of mere such law as , and the to , Christian submit to has its ,
masters through y int . Christ o useful t 6 sp Godward servants from , , and whilst the so , emanci it turn pates which s observances men selfwill from chooses their from
t as yranny masters , delivers from the us equall world y the flesh - powers and the devil . - There is , an attractionto , _whiqh no , one is at all times insensible ,
in and the it is idea too of getting to , rid think of restraints of liberty as and nothing doing as else one than pleases this . ,:
common of But emanci to get pation rid of is external in truth restraints , only an , incidental though often condition a necessary of genuine part
, , freedom In the of case any of kind civil . liberty , there is much excuse for supposin When g
man th such at the enj as oys repeal in the and extreme of exercises restrictions case an that improper is identical of buy power ing with and over freedom selling his fe . llow him - , man and a ,
appropriating , all the results , of his labour , and forcing him to do *
364 Christian Liberty And Its Counterfei...
364 CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS COUNTERFEIT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/4/
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