stands in competition with higher and better things; and, as all other worldly matters, is Holy when it is Ho∣lily esteemed and used; that is, for God; but sinful when it is sinfully esteemed and used, and that is for Carnal self.
I. The first of these is not to be denied, but all other Liberty to be denied for it. This Holy Liberty con∣sisteth in these following Particulars. 1. To be freed from the Power of sin, which is the disability, the de∣formity, the death of the soul. 2. From the Guilt of sin, and the wrath of God, and the Curse of the Law. 3. To be restored to God by Christ, in Union, Recon∣ciliation, and Sanctification; and our enthralled spi∣rits set free, to know, and love, and serve him, and de∣light in him. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Libert y, 2 Cor. 3. 17. God is the souls freedom, who is its Lord, and life, and end, and all. 4. To be deli∣vered from Satan as a Deceiver, and enemy, and exe∣cutioner of the wrath of God. 5. To be freed from that Law or Covenant of Works, which requireth that which to us is become impossible. 6. To be freed from the burdensome task of useless Ceremonies, im∣posed on the Church in the times of infancy and dark∣ness. 7. To be freed from the accusations of a guilty conscience, & those self-tormentings which in the wicked are the fore-tastes of hell. 8. To be freed from such temporal judgments here as might hinder our salvation, or our service of God. 9. To be free from the condemning sentence at the last day, and the everlasting Torments which the wicked must endure. 10. And to be de∣livered into the blessed sight of God, and the perfect fruition and pleasing of him, in Perfect Love, and Joy, and Praise, to all eternity. This is the Liberty which you must not deny, which I therefore name,