3 2 The Gofpel a Law of Liberty. S E R M. by the renewing of his mind, and becomes a II faithful and conftant doer of the will of God. `".""`' 'Tis in this defcription he inferts the charac- ter of the law of liberty, which, therefore, I conclude has a reference to the refcuing of men from the power of their vices and cor- rupt aIfeaions, that they may pradife pure religion as the proper effeâ of chriftianity. The connexion of the text Rands thus. The apoflle had cenfur'd the yews, to whom he writes, for their partiality in making diftindions among men according to their outward con- dition, exhorting them to fulfil the royal law, thou /halt love thy neighbour as thyfelf, which abftraéts from all fuch confiderations. To this law we mutt have an univerfal refpeEt, not obeying it in one inftance only, but in all, otherwife we Mall not be accepted ; then fol- lows, fó/peak ye, and ¡b do, as they that (hall be judged by the law of liberty, which applica- tion plainly points to univerfal obedience as the proper intent of the gofpe!, in oppofition to the contrary tendency of our own lufls and palliions. Indeed St. Paul himfelf explains the free- dom we have obtained by the law of Chrifl in this manner; as in the viiith to the Rom. 2d ver. For the law of the fpirit of lift in Chrifl 'efus bath made me free from the law of fin
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