Carnal Liberty to bedenied : What. 179 as Error is not Confcioice, but the defirsaion of Confcience ; fo Liberty to err, is no liberty of Confcience, but a Liberty to de- (tray Confcience : Much lets is it Liberty of Confcience to fin againft God, and draw others from Confcience into error,and poyfon men fouls, and hinder the Gofpel, and promote the work and Kingdom of the Devil. Andmany of our miferable fottifb people take it for a part of their defired Liberty to be free from Minifters Spiritual Overfight and Government, and not to be Chatechifed or called to an account, or examined about the ftate of their fouls, nor queftioned about their lives, but that they may do what they will, and have Sacraments and all Ordinances on what terms and in what manner theywill, and to have Mini- alters bow their Judgements to theirs, and lay their Confci- ences at the feet of every carnal ignorant wretch, and be but their fervants todo what they would have them : this is the Liberty that Satans fervants do defire. And withall, that they' may be free from necefl'ary pay- ments for the fafety of the Commonwealth and from the neceffary retribution to God, for the Church and poor, yea from givingbut the Minifters their own ; all this they take for part of .their liberty. But they are all fuch liberties as Chrift never purchafed, and the Gofpel never beltowed, and never made the Owners happy : It is a liberty to ftarve their own fouls, and goquietly to everlaffing torment, and not be molefted by Preachers and Puritans, but. to fin againft God, and damn themfelves, and be let alone, and have no body tell them of it, or ask them, Why will you do fo ? In a word, it is that liberty that C hrift died to fave his people from, and which the Gofpel would take down, and the fpirit, miniftry, and Ordinances would overthrow, and which no wifeor good man bath reafon to defire:and it is that liberty which God will fave all thole from, whom he will fave from the flames of hell: III. The third fort of Liberty is that which is in it felf In- different , or to be reckoned among the common tranfitory benefits of this life, which with Gods bleffing is a mercy ; and well ufed may do good, but otherwife is hurtful or little worth. This Liberty is not the Natural Liberty of the will, A a .z which
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