Of Chriflian Liberty. $9 invifible Deity, and other pious affedions, S E R M. but by the fear of temporal punifhments. IV. Expenfive facrifices were a tax upon this people for their trefpaffes, and they, with other ceremonial performances, were rigor - oufly exacted under the penalty of being cut off from the privileges of the civil fociety. This did produce, and indeed only could produce a fervile fpirit, which the apofl.le calleth the fpirit of bondage to fear, Rom. viii. S. the fear of death and other natural evils, a difpofition much too low to produce the noble exercife of pure and perfect religion, which rather mutt take its rife from that per - fect love which cafreth out fear. The Yews were fubjet to carnal ordinances, and in bondage to the elements of this world, which were weak, beggarly, and unprofitable; for all thefe charmers are given to the legal ordinances, by the facred writers of chrifti- anity. Every one can diflinguifh between the obedience of a fervant and a fon ; the one doth what is enjoined him with pain, becaufe he doth it with terror, under the apprehenfion of fevere chaftifement for the leaft defect; the other acteth from the in- genuous principle of reverence and hearty affedlion ; fuch is the difference between the Jewifh and the Chriflian fervice, becaufe of the great
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