Exceeding Sinfidnefi' ofSin. 3 5 are under the command of the Devil him fell. Thou wilt not fulfil thewill ofGod when it is opened tothee out of hisWord and Will, what thouought eft to do ; thou flandeft out againft the Will ofGod : But now you thatthink it fuch a bondage to be obedient to the will of God, yoube brought under a worfe bondage, youare fain to be obedient to the will of the Devil.. And certainly thofe men andwomen that think theybe at molt liberty when they be free from obedience to theWill ofGod; by that libertie theycome tobe under bondage, under flavery to theDevil. All wicked frAM that thinkmuch to obeyGod, theymuff be obedient one way or other; we mull be all fervants,and obedient ei- ther to theWill of God, or theDevil ; which is bell then ? Wicked men think it a brave life that they may have their own will; true, if they might have their own will, they might think it a brave life: but know,you have rather the will ofthe devil than your own, in that you do his will, you fulfil thewill ofthe devil. To be inflaverie, not only to the devil, but to any min, is a great evil, to be at thewil of man, yea, to be at the will of a good man is an evil : I fliould be loth to live in any fuch Common- wealth, as that I fhould be under the will ofman in it, any further than might be revealed and bounded by force let Law. Thedifference be- tween a Slave and a SubjelF is this, A Slave is Inch aone as lives underArbitrary Government, that is the WIL L offuch as are in Authority, is their Law, and they are ruled byno other Law 1 T t but
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