Of Chrillian Liberty. lighten his underftanding, not fubmitting S E R M. his judgment and confcience to any majefte- IV. rial power ; and to ad folely from the prin- ciple `° of faith in the unfeen king, and from a regard to the account which is to be given to him at the final judgment. Inftead of this, popery fetteth up a vili- ble adminiftration, indeed a 'great temporal monarchy, with a power of infallible and authoritative interpretation, rather a power of promulging the true laws of the gof- pel, or different laws, as fhall feem meet to the governor; and in effect they have often publifhed different, nay contrary laws, en- forced with the fan Lion of prefent external rewards and punifhments. What is this in reality, but altering the whole conílitution, intirely new modelling the government, though under the name of the original king ; indeed, dethroning him and ufurping his power, or a new power in oppofition to him, and enforcing a different kind of obe- dience from what he requireth, and will only fatisfy the obligation of his laws, an obedience wholly derived from different motives, an obedience not properly to Chrift but to men, not arifing from fincerely good inward affections, and a thorough perfuafion concerning the truths and motives of the gofpel,
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