86 Of Chrian Liberty. S E R M. willing, feif- approving mind, and a the- IV rough perfuafion concerning the chriflian principles and motives of action. Such a conftitution certainly breaketh in upon no human liberty, and to its own purpofes, the higbeft fuch creatures are capable of ferving, it eflablifheth the molt perfe& li- berty, a liberty of judgment, of choice, and action ; it requireth no blind fübmiffion of the underftanding or the will ; but calleth upon us diligently and impartially to exa- mine the grounds upon which we are either to believe or to aft. If the belief of force dotrines be neceffary to our anfwering the defign of the gofpel fcheme, they are intel- ligibly propofed, and the evidence of them fubjeEted to a fair and free enquiry ; no ob- jeas are recommended but fuch as the af- feEtions, planted in our nature, regularly terminate upon ; if force things are enjoined as duties, or propofed as counfels expedient for us, we are left to examine the fufficiency of the motives enforcing them ; and a con.- grained, unwilling, and merely external obe- dience, is declared wholly infignificant to the purpofes of chriftianity. As thus it is plain that no man can be the fincere fubjelt of Jefus Chrift, without being fo of his own free choice, and liberty is
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