SERMON V. Of CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. GAL. V. I. Stand fats therefore in the liberty where- with Chrift bath made us free. Ii Have already endeavoured to explain S R M. the liberty wherewith Chrift bath made V his followers free, and which the apofllej exhorteth men ftedfaftly to maintain, having íhewn that it primarily and directly meaneth the deliverance of the chriftian church from the grievous yoke of ceremonial obfervances, which, faith St. Peter, neither the yews themfelves, nor their fathers, were able to bear. But by a parity of reafon, and in- deed according to the defign of the gofpel and the plain meaning of its declarations, chriftians ought to be always free from the appointments of human authority in the affairs of religion and confcience, Chriji ,efus being the foie king in his kingdom, and head of his body which is the church, I 3 and
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