332' Chip. 39. efin Expofition upon the Book,of J o B. Verf.. 6. to maintain withall our might (Gal, q. a.) Stand fall. therefore in the liberty wherewith Chrt. l hath made us free, and be not in- tangled again with the yoak of bondage ; that is, with the bon- dage of the ceremonial Law, from which Chris hath made us free (Gal. q.. 26.) jerufalemwhich is above is free, which is the mother of us all ; free, Firft, from the !laver) of fin ; free, Se- condly, from the curie of the Law ;. free, Thirdly, from the yoak of legal ceremonies. M1 believers are made thus free by Chrif{, but Chrifa hath not made"fo much as one believer free from fer- vice. Chrifl makes us free to ferve, not free from ferving. To h be free toferoe, is infinitely better than to be free from ferar'ce; nothing is more ingenuous, nothing (hews a more noble fpiric in man, than to be free to ferve, as all are, being once freed from fpiritual or fin-flavery (Rom. 6. 19.) As ye have yielded your members fervants to uncltannefs, and.to iniquity unto insysity, even fo nowyield your [elves fervants to rigbteorrfnefs unto holinefr; for (as is follows)when ye were the fervants of fin, ye werefreefroth righreoufnefs, or (as it is in the margin) free to righreoufnefs; not free to do righreoufnefs, but free not to do ir. Righteouf- nefs had thenno command (yielded to) no power (fubmitted co) over you ; whereas over a gracious heart,. righteoufnefs path the greaten command,, A godly man is at the beck of God, inall the wayes of righreoufnefs : and, as he is free to ferve Masers, fo he is free to be fubje6i to Magisrates,or higherpowers,according to that rule of the Aponte (Rom. 13. s.) And that all in their places may be mindful of this duty, they are upon all occafrons tobeput in mind of ir, as the fameAponte direaed Titus inhis piffle to him (Chap. 3. r.) The Lord having fpoken of the free- dom ofthe Afs, proceeds to defcribed his dwelling. Vert. 6. Whole houfe I have made the wildernefs, and the barren land his dwellings. Thefe words contain the fecond part of the care and provi- dence of God towards the wild Als he bath not only made them free,and loofed their bonds, but he hath provided a dwel- ling for them ; and where ? in the wildernefs; a wild place, and therefore fit for wild beaus. The wildernefs ;. srialy taken, is the dwelling of beaus, not of men ; we read (I grant) in Scripture not onlyof Honks, but of. Cities in . the wildernefs, yet
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