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 of love to God and man, of lowliness, meekness and purity forsake thee. ''Bind it about thy neck: write it on the table of thy heart.'' Keep close to the law, if thou wilt keep close to Christ: hold it fast: let it not go. Let this continually lead thee to the atoning blood, continually confirm thy hope, till all ''the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in'' thee, and thou art filled with all the fulness of God.

10. And if thy Lord hath already fulfilled his word, if he hath already ''written his law in thy heart, then stand fast in the liberty, wherewith Christ hath made thee free''. Thou art not only made free from Jewish ceremonies, from the guilt of sin and the fear of hell: (these are so far from being the whole, that they are the least and lowest part, of Christian liberty:) but what is infinitely more, from the power of sin, from serving the devil, from offending God. O stand fast in this liberty, in comparison of which, all the rest is not even worthy to be named. Stand fast in loving God with all thy heart, and serving him with all thy strength. This is perfect freedom; thus to keep his law, and to walk in all his commandments blameless. Be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. I do not mean of Jewish bondage: nor yet of bondage to the fear of hell: these, I trust, are far from thee. But beware of being intangled again with the yoke of sin, of any inward or outward transgression of the law. Abhor sin far more