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    s CHRISTIAN LIBERTY ' AND ' ITS COUNTERF...

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    that within may every necessary one of , us which responds to a call coming to us in from which the hi God gher has reg created ion , and us inviting . The us iri to t acts within worth us y longs of the to nature gain

    its due place of mastery over the flesh sp . We know that the passive life of contented animals is not that for which man was made . We to

    are capable of feeling ashamed of such a life , and of aspiring a con better uered ; When who we throug behold h whatever examples trials of men have who att have ained strugg to peace led and and

    sereni q ty , and ; the , power of serving God , and their fellow-men , we cannot but honour them and wish to be like them . Let us encout

    the ra cal g ling e dominion such of which amb over it we ion are us p ourselves art Let akers us ask . , by Let ourselves reflec not tin sloth g earnestl ' upon and cowar y tha shall dice heavenl we gain be y

    . , slavesor shall we be free ? And let us remember , for our encouragemen , t , that the liberty for which we are to toil is really giv h

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    fellowshi therefore spirit of His p seek with Son to the into obtain Father our hearts any in prize , heaven crying or , Abba condition , Father apar . t Let from us God not , .

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    re nearer sist more st , outly the influences grace which would draw us down from , varied the B freedom y way disci of line of hel Christ ping us be into to slavery live thus . . in But the whatever spirit to God be our , much submis and - necessary

    sion to customs p and may rules , to discipline , and exercises—and I say true well again for state , let us us is to to beware look be reall for how y the free we enjoyment , desp and ise con these scious of — iritual of let our us freedom believe freedom that . and It our to is

    test our condition with reference to it . It sp is well that , when , we discover ourselves to be relapsing into subjection to of the freemen flesh or to

    let whom the us world s a t , yrannical we to look should truth usurpation feel and somethin God is in g practised of the the face shame . Have to do I without the courage upon fear , ;

    ay , am or shame I weak what and I deceitful know to be and ri cowardly ght ? Am seeking I living to in hide the my light shame ? ox *

    , , , consider taug thing in darkness ht to us beg what not in ? Am by is unwisel ri asking I free ht y and , , who or am worth am I say happy I , a Never sl of , av or a e man ? am mind It I would not made about happy not in your the ? be Those happ the image iness sam have of e ; y

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    s CHRISTIAN LIBERTY ' AND ' ITS COUNTERFEIT . 367

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/7/