366 A omsettarie vp . Chap. Secondly , we muff. pray .earnefily for deliuerancè. The dumme creatures fish and trauell till they be deliuered from their bondage : much: more thenmuff .eve doe it: Rom. 8, 22. Thirdly , we muff Iearne to detail vrhatfiseuer is of our felucs: becaufe it wholly tends to bondage. Laflly , we muff be content with any afllifìion thatGod S laieson vs, though it be Iingring fiches , poucrtie, imprifon. ment , bani(hment . For God might worthely lay on vs all Marne and confufion : becaufe we are by nature flawsof finne andSatan. Thefccondmaine doEarine is, that by grace there is aliber- 10 tie pertaining to the people of God. Here I confider foure =things : i . what thishbertie is. .2. the author of it. 3. the per. fans towhome it belongs. 4. our dutietouching this libertie. For the firfl: Ch-riflian libertie is called, the Good,orcomma- is. ditie of .Chrifbians. Rom. 1 4.16. It is-a ¡pirituailR ight or condition, loft by Adam, and reflo. red .6y Chrtfl . 1 lay fpirituall , becaufe it pertaines to thecon - fcience. The vie indcede ofour hbertie is inoutward things, as meare, drinke , apparel!, &c. but the libertie it felfe is in the 20 confcience. And thusit differs from ciiilllibertie,which (lands in themoouingof the bodie , in thechoife of bodily actions, and in the free vie of ourgoods. Chriftian libertie bath _two pacts , a'Dtltaterancefromwife. rie, andFreedome ingood things. 2$ Deliuerance bath foure parts. The firfl , is a Deliuerance from the curie of the law for the breach thereof. Roan. 8. i. There id no condemnation. to them that are in Chrifl. Ar d this -comes topafe : becaufe there is a tranflation made of the curie from ourperfons to the perfon ofChrift. Gal.;.13. 30 The fccond deliuerance is from the obligation of the law whereby it binds vstobring perfe& righteoufnes inour owñe perfons for theattainment ofeuerlafting life, according to the tenour thereof , Dee this, and hue. Arid this deliuerance is pro - cured, becaufe there isa tranflation madeofthe fulfillingof 35 the law fromour perfons to theperfon ofour Sauiour Chrift. From there two deliuerances arifeth the Pacificationof the confcience, partly for our Iuflification,and partly for our con- tterfation. Touching iuflilcation : A fanner in his humiliation and, eon- ._
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