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CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS COUNTERFEIT. 3...
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The Cause Which Is Represented Hy This M...
what his master's caprice may desire , it is indispensably necessary , If freedom is to be honoured and to prevail , that such a power
should be abolished . It is undoubtedly a good thing , and tends to with true a lib man erty ' , s that freedom all of unreasonable action should and be unprofitable done away . interferences But it may
" not easil word y the freedom be same seen that b thing thinking the as absence being of the of free restrictions condition in any of worth and men interferences y in sense a barbarous of , the is
• The and uncivilized time has , gone state y by . when The anarch any thinking y of savage persons life is could not freedom imagine .
regulated that men would life of gain an , in ordered respect community of freedom like , by our removing own into from what the
used to be called a state of nature . Civil and political liberty , so for far from its being existence interfered And with a and hi diminished h state of b freedom y laws , needs miht laws be g
_ifound in very a well-ordered . society where g very many things were the prescribed authorit , or of many the law things And forbidden it is probable , with , that penalties in such supporting a society
ithere would y be a greater . amount of happiness than where more individual bered that licence the prevailed of freedom . But it is " oug not ht the always to thing be remem as the
pursuit same be pursuit less mirthful of happiness than those or enjoyment who live . in The bondage free . man Hig is h very interests likely and _w to
_^ brow responsibilities with care , and in which anxiety the , and free to man check shares the , are flow ap of t to mere cloud lig the htlive in
h . eartedness . Slaves , on the other hand , and those who a _^ th not ser at vile be there state surprised is , may a , great , therefore at times deal , , enj when of oy merriment much we are childish told and gaiety on mirth good amongst . authorit "We need the y
slaves who form the curse and the shame of the Southern American States . This is no real argument for being content with slavery itself
to and be acquiescing unwelcome in to it those . The who special observe gaiety it , as of a slaves painful oug characteristi ht in c
- to necessary of the slavery members . attributes It bear of any s of witness community genuine that freedom in self which -control , and a hi will g and h degree certainl self-respect of y freedom belong are
has been attained . The liberty of which St . Paul is the ardent champion , is not the
ment munici . pal But or the political one is libert not y unconnected which has to with do with the other external . Christian
govern-¦ hut liberty it unquestionabl may exist y in fig the hts against mind and the princi conscience ples of even slavery of a , slave and it ; and
-civil aims liberty at graduall cannot y promoting be real and the lasting most without perfect the civil support liberty of ; that
libert The y hi which hest has freedom the soul so of far man from for its imp sp ly here ing . emancipation from
_^ all explains subjection g this , apparent actually , consists paradox in by serving liis account God and of men human . St n . ature Paul .
Christian Liberty And Its Counterfeit. 3...
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS COUNTERFEIT . 365
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/5/
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