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reth from the other, is no Evidence of his being under the Law, and not under Grace".

VII. Neither are the forementioned Ufes of the Law contrary to the Grace of the Gofpel, but do fweetly comply with it "; the Spirit of Chrift fubduing and enabling the Will of Man, to do that freely and chearfully, which the Will of God revealed in the Law requireth to be done *.

▾ Rom. 6. 12. Let not fin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye fhould obey it in the luft thereof . 14 For fin fhall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. t Pet. 3. 8. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compaffion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. v. 9. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwife, bleffing: knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye fhould inherit a bleffing. v. 10. For he that will love life, and fee good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. 2. 11. Let him efchew evil, and do good; let him feek peace and enfue it. v. 12. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his eats are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil: With Pfal. 34. 12. What man is he that defireth life, and loveth many days, that he may fee good? v. 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from fpeaking guile. v. 14. Depart from evil, and do good: seek peace and purfue it. v. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. v. 16. The

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face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. Heb. 12. 28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace,whereby we may ferve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. v. 29. For our God is a confuming fire.

VII. w Gal. 3. 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: For if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs fhould have been by the law.

* Ezek. 36. 27. And I will put my Spirit within you, and caufe you to walk in my ftatutes, and ye fhall keep my judgments, and do them. Heb. 8. 10. For this is the covenant that I will make with the houfe of Ifrael after those days, faith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they fhall be to me a people. With Jer. 31. 33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the houfe of Ifrael, after thofe days, faith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people,

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OfChriftian Liberty,andLiberty of Confcience. HE Liberty which Chrift hath purchased for

TBelievers under the Gofpel, confifts in their Freedom from the Guilt of Sin, the condemning Wrath of God, the Curse of the Moral Law; and in their being delivered from this prefent evil World, Bondage to Satan and Dominion of Sin b, from the Evil of Afflictions, the Sting of Death, the Vicory of the Grave, and everlasting Damnation ; as alfo in their free Accefs to God, and their yielding Obedience unto him, not out of flavish Fear, but a

1. Tit. 2, 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. I The, 1.10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jefus which delivered us from the wrath to come. Gal. 3. 13. Chrift hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us: for it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

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b Gal. 1. 4. Who gave himself for our fins, that he might deliver us from this prefent evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. Col. 1. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath tranflated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Acts 26. 18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of fins, and inheritance among them which are fanctified by faith that is in me. Rom. 6. 14. For fin fhall not have domi

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Rom. 8. 28. We know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Psalm 119. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy ftatutes. 1 Cor. Is. 54. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal fhall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is fwallowed up in victory. v. 55. O death, where is thy fting? O grave, where is thy victory? v. 56. The fting of death is fin; and the strength of fin is the law, v. 57. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Chrift Jefus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

d Rom. 5.1. Therefore being juftified by faith, we have peace with

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child-like Love and willing Mind. All which were common alfo to Believers under the Law : But under the New Teftament, the Liberty of Chritians is further enlarged in their Freedom from the Toke of the Ceremonial Law, to which the Jewish Church was fubjected ; and in greater Boldness of Access to the Throne of Graceh, and in fuller Communications of the free Spirit of God, than

God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. 2. By whom also we have accefs y faith into this grace wherein we fand, and rejoice in hope of the lory of God.

Rom. 8. 14. For as many as are ed by the Spirit of God, they are he fons of God. v. 15. For ye have 10t received the spirit of bondage gain to fear; but ye have received he Spirit of adoption, whereby we ry, Abba, Father. 1 John 4. 18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love cafteth out fear: because fear 1ath torment: he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Gal. 3. 9. So then they which >e of faith, are bleffed with faithful Abraham. v. 14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jefus Chrift; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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art no more a servant, but a fon; and if a fon, then an heir of God through Chrift. Gal. 5. 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 difciples, 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 mercy,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 fent forth the Spirit fprinkled from an evil confcience, of his Son into your hearts, crying, and our bodies washed with pure Abba, Father. v. 7. Wherefore thou

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II. God alone is Lord of the Confcience, 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 Wor fhip. So that to believe fuch Do&rines, 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 Obe

1 John 7. 38. He that believeth on me, as the fcripture hath faid, out of his belly thall flow rivers of living water. v.39. But this fpake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him, fhould receive; for the holy Ghost 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 ftedfaftly 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,

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II. James 4. 12. Thereis one lawgiver who is able to fave, and to detroy: who art thou that judgeft another? Rom. 14. 4. Who art thou that judgeft another mans fervant? to his own mafter he standeth 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 5.39. Then

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Peter and the other Apoftles anfwered and faid, We ought to obey God rather than men. I Cor. 7.23. Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the fervants of men. Mat. 23. 8, But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Mafter, even Christ, and all ye are brethren, v. 9. And call no man your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, which is in heaven. v. 10. Neither be ye cal led mafters; for one is your Mafter, even Christ. 2 Cor. 1. 24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye ftand, Mar. 15. 9. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

in 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 wisdom in will-worship 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?

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III. They who upon Pretence of Chriftian Libery, do practife any Sin, or cherish any Luft, do hereby 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 feek to please men? for if1 yet pleafed men, Ifhould not be the fervant of Chrift. 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 Christ Jefus, that they might bring us into bondage: v. 5. To whom we gave place by fubjeation, no not for an hour: that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. Gal.5.1. Stand faft therefore in the liberty wherewith Chrift hath made us free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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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 beast, whose deadly wound was healed. v. 16. And he causeth 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. fer. 8. 9. The wife men are afhamed, they are difmayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?

Rom. 1o. 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 whatsoever is not of faith, is fin. fe not liberty for an occafion to the If4.8, 20. To the law and to the te- flesh, but by love, ferve one another. ftimony: if they speak not accord-Pet 2. 16. As free, and not using ing to this word, it is because there your liberty for a cloak of malicioufis no light in them. Acts 17. 11. nefs, but as the fervants of God. These were more noble than those 2 Pet. 2. 19. While they promise in Theffalonica, in that they recei- them liberty, they themselves are ved the word with all readiness of mind, and fearched the fcriptures daily, whether those things were fo. John 4. 22. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for falvation is of the Jews. Hof. 5. 11. Ephraim is oppreffed, and bro

the fervants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the fame is he brought in bondage. John 8.34. Jefus anfwered them, Verily, verily, I fay unto you, Whofoever committeth fin, is the servant of fin. H 4

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